Bill Nelson wrote:
On a more everyday level, take note of the amount of European goods that we consume
We discovered yesterday that the guy who runs the cheese stall in our local market is thinking of jacking it all in after Brexit. He has been a stallholder for 25 years.
He is Dutch, and was telling us that twice a year he would have to go to the Dutch embassy in London and fill in a dozen forms about his business. Not to mention all the extra checks that he would have to go through whenever he makes a trip to France and the Netherlands to collect cheese, as he does every week or two.
So going home to NL and selling his cheese there is currently very attractive to him.
The stallholder next to him is Belgian, and is thinking of going home too. After 30 years in England. His wife is English, but would take out a Belgian passport if she can.
In addition to the headline-grabbing losses such as Nissan in Sunderland, it will be a myriad "little things" like this that will make the UK a poorer place after Brexit.