December 23, 2022
*Rejoin EU Party press release*
*Businesses deserve better than Westminster’s wall of silence on Brexit, Rejoin EU Party says*
Businesses facing a rising tide of Brexit damage deserve better than the wall of silence offered by Westminster, the Rejoin EU Party says.
More than three quarters, or 77%, of British companies have said the UK’s trade deal with the EU is failing to help them to increase sales or expand their businesses in Europe, according to a survey published this week by the British Chambers of Commerce.
Businesses said they were having trouble adapting to new Brexit rules for trading goods and services and obtaining visas for staff, as well as facing higher importing costs, lower sales margins and shortages of goods and services.
The BCC said businesses feel they are “banging their heads against a brick wall” as nothing has been done to help them and that the U.K. needs an “honest dialogue” about improving trading links with the EU.
In addition, the Centre for European Reform also said Brexit is costing Britain £40bn in tax revenue per year and has cut GDP by 5.5% since the UK left the EU – and official data yesterday showed that UK GDP shrank 0.3% in the three months to September – the worst in the G7.
The Rejoin EU Party agrees with the BCC that politicians need to be more honest about Brexit chaos. It says the only realistic way to revive the UK’s collapsing economy is to re-join the single market, the customs union and eventually the EU.
The party is offering businesses struggling with Brexit problems the chance to have that “honest dialogue” and to work together to put pressure on the Tories, Labour and the Liberal Democrats to start listening to them.
Former MEP and Rejoin EU Party supporter Brendan Donnelly said: “Every day, the economic victims of Brexit become more numerous. It’s shameful that British politicians are so reluctant to speak up for them. It’s the job of politicians to defend the electorate from avoidable harm.
“Too many British politicians are content to let the Brexit damage continue in the hope of reaping short-term benefit for their parties. The only real hope lies in accepting Brexit has failed and that we need to return to the EU.”
*Notes for editors:* *The Rejoin EU party is campaigning to re-join the EU because we believe the UK belongs at the heart of Europe and re-joining is the only way to solve the problems Brexit has created. Brexit is broken and it’s breaking our country too. All the promises on which Brexit was sold to the electorate in 2016 are now increasingly exposed as fantasy. Far from bringing the promised reduction in red tape and bureaucracy and providing £350m a week for the NHS, Brexit makes trading with the crucial European market more complex, difficult and expensive and threatens to reduce funding for public services. Sectors such as farming, fisheries & financial services, supposed to benefit from Brexit, now face an uncertain future. If you agree Brexit is making our country poorer, less tolerant and less united, join us and send a strong message to Westminster that you want your EU membership back, along with all its freedoms and benefits.*
*Contact Rejoin EU at **admin@therejoineuparty.com <admin@therejoineuparty.com>**, visit our website at **www.therejoineuparty.com <www.therejoineuparty.com/> **and donate at Rejoin EU Party Campaign Fund – a politics crowdfunding project in United Kingdom by Rejoin EU Party (crowdfunder.co.uk <crowdfunder.co.uk/>) **www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/rejoin-eu-party-campaign-fund <www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/rejoin-eu-party-campaign-fund>**. You can also follow the party on Twitter at @rejoinp*
*Rejoin EU Party press release*
*Businesses deserve better than Westminster’s wall of silence on Brexit, Rejoin EU Party says*
Businesses facing a rising tide of Brexit damage deserve better than the wall of silence offered by Westminster, the Rejoin EU Party says.
More than three quarters, or 77%, of British companies have said the UK’s trade deal with the EU is failing to help them to increase sales or expand their businesses in Europe, according to a survey published this week by the British Chambers of Commerce.
Businesses said they were having trouble adapting to new Brexit rules for trading goods and services and obtaining visas for staff, as well as facing higher importing costs, lower sales margins and shortages of goods and services.
The BCC said businesses feel they are “banging their heads against a brick wall” as nothing has been done to help them and that the U.K. needs an “honest dialogue” about improving trading links with the EU.
In addition, the Centre for European Reform also said Brexit is costing Britain £40bn in tax revenue per year and has cut GDP by 5.5% since the UK left the EU – and official data yesterday showed that UK GDP shrank 0.3% in the three months to September – the worst in the G7.
The Rejoin EU Party agrees with the BCC that politicians need to be more honest about Brexit chaos. It says the only realistic way to revive the UK’s collapsing economy is to re-join the single market, the customs union and eventually the EU.
The party is offering businesses struggling with Brexit problems the chance to have that “honest dialogue” and to work together to put pressure on the Tories, Labour and the Liberal Democrats to start listening to them.
Former MEP and Rejoin EU Party supporter Brendan Donnelly said: “Every day, the economic victims of Brexit become more numerous. It’s shameful that British politicians are so reluctant to speak up for them. It’s the job of politicians to defend the electorate from avoidable harm.
“Too many British politicians are content to let the Brexit damage continue in the hope of reaping short-term benefit for their parties. The only real hope lies in accepting Brexit has failed and that we need to return to the EU.”
*Notes for editors:* *The Rejoin EU party is campaigning to re-join the EU because we believe the UK belongs at the heart of Europe and re-joining is the only way to solve the problems Brexit has created. Brexit is broken and it’s breaking our country too. All the promises on which Brexit was sold to the electorate in 2016 are now increasingly exposed as fantasy. Far from bringing the promised reduction in red tape and bureaucracy and providing £350m a week for the NHS, Brexit makes trading with the crucial European market more complex, difficult and expensive and threatens to reduce funding for public services. Sectors such as farming, fisheries & financial services, supposed to benefit from Brexit, now face an uncertain future. If you agree Brexit is making our country poorer, less tolerant and less united, join us and send a strong message to Westminster that you want your EU membership back, along with all its freedoms and benefits.*
*Contact Rejoin EU at **admin@therejoineuparty.com <admin@therejoineuparty.com>**, visit our website at **www.therejoineuparty.com <www.therejoineuparty.com/> **and donate at Rejoin EU Party Campaign Fund – a politics crowdfunding project in United Kingdom by Rejoin EU Party (crowdfunder.co.uk <crowdfunder.co.uk/>) **www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/rejoin-eu-party-campaign-fund <www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/rejoin-eu-party-campaign-fund>**. You can also follow the party on Twitter at @rejoinp*
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Talk to antique, interior and vintage trading companies that import from France and Europe. Our businesses are sinking. Not to mention the invitation to pay underhand monies to Customs to get through, even with documentation.
Businesses are closing every day that used to thrive and the antique fairs are left with Ghosts of European traders that embraced our country and helped our economy. What has Brexit done for our trade? Killing it slowly and its so very sad. Given up with the costs of importing. Not just Vat, duty and of course these added to the courier fee, but the stress of it, and the clearing fee in France and uk is £ 320 for both, that is before you even start. KILLING US SOFLY WITH NO FUTURE. we dream of shopping at Brocante fairs and just getting in our car with a baguette and a hard days work under our belts. ALL GONE, how dare they take away our passion. Our passion has gone