Nothing like the glory days of the past - Roaming charges are back

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Mottie said:
Read the article. New customers only. :p
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It is for now, once everyone has roaming charges for new customers then they'll wait a bit and retroactively apply it for (edit) existing ones. Or just laugh madly as they charge you twice as much as the same contract would cost now.

I just reduced my monthly payment to £8 for 12GB data and unlimited calls and texts (apparently they're still a thing).
 
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Lower said:
Except it’s not a total sh1tstorm.
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It is indeed.

1 Northern Ireland Protocol has severely damaged trade between GB and NI

2. Brexit has put massive trade barriers between UK and it’s biggest trade partner….that has meant loads of businesses moving to EU, lots of businesses losing EU export market, lots of businesses losing easy access to a frictionless market of $16trillion

3. SMEs that used to import and export within Europe, just as easily as trading in the UK, can no longer do so. A small business of say 10 people does not want the hassle of customs documentation to import.

4. Considerable supply chain chaos, unique to UK due to Brexit.

5. A deeply divided country

6. An increase in Xenophobia

7 Brexit has put a dishonest, corrupt, govt in charge…have a look at Tufton street network

8 Brexit and this right wing govt has caused a huge shortage of workers which will slow economic recovery

9 Brexit has damage fishing sector

10 Brexit has damaged farming sector


I dare say you can cherry pick a few benefits on rules we can drop and specific tariffs, but the overall effect is negative.

one thing is clear, Brexit won’t benefit those who voted for it as a protest against decades of decline in their region.
 
Bouy said:
I went the other way, increased my payment to £10 and got 30GB
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I should have gone down to 2GB

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Notch7 said:
It is indeed.

1 Northern Ireland Protocol has severely damaged trade between GB and NI

2. Brexit has put massive trade barriers between UK and it’s biggest trade partner….that has meant loads of businesses moving to EU, lots of businesses losing EU export market, lots of businesses losing easy access to a frictionless market of $16trillion

3. SMEs that used to import and export within Europe, just as easily as trading in the UK, can no longer do so. A small business of say 10 people does not want the hassle of customs documentation to import.

4. Considerable supply chain chaos, unique to UK due to Brexit.

5. A deeply divided country

6. An increase in Xenophobia

7 Brexit has put a dishonest, corrupt, govt in charge…have a look at Tufton street network

8 Brexit and this right wing govt has caused a huge shortage of workers which will slow economic recovery

9 Brexit has damage fishing sector

10 Brexit has damaged farming sector


I dare say you can cherry pick a few benefits on rules we can drop and specific tariffs, but the overall effect is negative.

one thing is clear, Brexit won’t benefit those who voted for it as a protest against decades of decline in their region.
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I disagree. There are undoubtedly negatives, but there are also positives. How they balance out is subjective, but ‘total sh!tstorm’ is an exaggeration.
 
Lower said:
I disagree. There are undoubtedly negatives, but there are also positives. How they balance out is subjective, but ‘total sh!tstorm’ is an exaggeration.
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Remind me what those are again? Higher wages for HGV drivers is all I can think of, but that's balanced by my nearest supermarket being out of milk half the times I visit.
 
Mottie said:
Buy double each time you go then. Sorted. (y)
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Don't worry, I'm able to manage because my fridge is huge. But it has made my life more awkward, it's not just milk either, frozen peas were missing last week, now frozen sweetcorn. It's a small, but real, way that Brexit has helped to make things more ****ty.

But the big shock has been pushed back again I believe. We're still not ready to start checking incoming paperwork for EU foods.
 
IT Minion said:
But the big shock has been pushed back again I believe. We're still not ready to start checking incoming paperwork for EU foods.
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In Brexit negotiations, no deadline is final. Reliably, it is the UK that needs an extension. Just as consistently, the reason is failure to understand the implications of something that had been agreed before the last deadline.

In accordance with that pattern, the government this week once again extended “grace periods” waiving checks for goods moving between Great Britain and Northern Ireland. An early March deadline had been unilaterally abandoned by the UK; a second date of October was agreed with the European Commission. Now, David Frost, Brexit minister, says the waiver is to be indefinite “to provide space for potential further discussions” on changes to the Northern Ireland protocol.

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A picture is emerging of Britain as a lonely country, desperate for Brexit validation from non-European countries and unwilling to accept that repairing relations with Europe is the urgent priority. It might take a few more postponed deadlines before that reality is brought home. Mr Johnson may wish to pause his treaty obligations indefinitely, but the wider problems with Brexit come down to facts of geography and economics, which cannot be unilaterally suspended.
 
If the only item in the freezer section was frozen dog poo the Brexiteers would consider that as a win as it was home grown dog poo.
 
Lower said:
I disagree. There are undoubtedly negatives, but there are also positives. How they balance out is subjective, but ‘total sh!tstorm’ is an exaggeration.
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Care to tell us of the positives?
 
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