“Now I can see the full carnage of what this government has done to my industry and the wider economy.”
30/01/2021
I am now at the end of January 2021 and still no new stock. I can see clearly what #Brexit really means for my industry & how I will have to fundamentally change my business model if I am to be trading in 12 months time. But the government wants more paperwork in five months.
My £1m UK small business is in ruins and I see no way out. Tried everything, feel utterly powerless. Trade with EU virtually impossible. This was so predictable and predicted. Bastards!
Brexit supporters thought that the EU was obsessed with this country, part of our sense of exceptionalism. Not so, as Kate Moore discovers. / Travelling across Europe provides the opportunity to quiz Germans, Swedes, French, Spanish and UK nationals living or travelling abroad about their attitude to the UK and its departure from the EU.
Brexit Proof meets the couple behind Cafe Cuan, an independent coffee shop and event space, in Belfast.
They miss the trees, the curry, the friends … but most of all, they miss feeling the UK was somewhere they could call home.
Partners and spouses are being kept apart by Home Office delays in processing revised versions of entry permits to Britain.
A significant number of EU citizens believe Brexit has made Britain "unrecognisable", a new study found.
‘I have nothing’: Roma people left without support and at risk of exploitation due to digital-only status
04/10/2020
Fresh concerns about digital-only EU status as report reveals Roma people unable to prove immigration status and exposed to exploitation by individuals offering unqualified and paid-for 'support’.
Kaffeo director Orla Smyth runs three independent Scandinavian coffee shops in Belfast.
‘I allowed the toxins of politics to seep into my skin’ - Rafael Behr on the personal toll of Brexit
11/05/2023
The anger and division of British politics took a toll on Behr's health.
‘Farms Will Not be Able to Survive This’: Sword of Damocles Hanging Over Farmers Thanks to Brexit
02/06/2021
As the details of Boris Johnson’s trade deals are unveiled, these two farmers are pessimistic about the post-Brexit future of their industry.
With fellow Europeans leaving the UK, and no British workers taking their place, Eleanor Popa’s job harvesting strawberries has gone from tough to tough and lonely. Will the farm survive another year?
For some of the record number of Britons seeking Irish passports, the move will be permanent.
“Are they going to break our family apart?"
"I moved to England because of its tolerance and open-mindedness. So when I started to see the posters on the windows, when I started to hear Nigel Farage demonising the foreigners, the hatred and racism that was now in plain sight, I started to feel uncomfortable."
Without physical proof of our settled status, EU citizens like me fear for our futures post-Brexit
24/01/2020
The Home Office says the EU settlement scheme is working. Working for whom, exactly?
Wild Beer and Brexit
11/01/2021
I have been looking at how our local SMEs have been coping with the new post-Brexit trading arrangements which have come on top of the challenges posed by the Covid-19 crisis.
Post-Brexit, the cost of medicines they rely on could skyrocket.
Once you do it Brexit will become real, but until then you can just stay in denial, journalist Marie Le Conte writes.
I run two shops in Cowbridge in the Vale of Glamorgan. The negative impact that Brexit is already having on my business is causing me sleepless nights.
Campaigners for British citizens in Europe say they are being treated as nonentities by Boris Johnson in his race to get Brexit over the line.
As the disastrous impact of leaving the EU becomes clearer, UK citizens should be allowed another say.
Voices from the People’s Vote march
19/10/2019
Protesters explain why they want a second referendum on EU membership.