why would anyone want to move to a third world country?

Oh dear! Maybe we need branch Hubs round the world.

I regret the brexit because I loved to buy from you guys. well, you are always good to come back to the EU. Can you not take someone in the EU and he or she take care for your stuff?

The gift that keeps on giving...

I watch these videos to get away from folk talking politics. Nice one 🙄 unsubscribed

Cheers up, the govt has just sold off Royal Mail. Imagine what a ' delight' that will be. (That's sarcasm for those above the pond who dint recognise it)

Who is responsible for introducing these new safety standards rules? Is it the EU or is it non EU countries? The UK voted to leave the EU in order to rid itself of control by the unelected EU Commission,the same unelected commission who make all the rules that affect us all. The UK never got the brexit it voted for,not one bit. Don't blame the people who voted to get away. Look at us now with this new government..they want to drag us back into the EU whilst the EU is falling apart at the seams.

Quick note on GPSR: Primarily the reason for bringing this in is because the EU have woken up to the fact that China have been taking the piis - to put it bluntly - sending stuff over which is, quite frankly, dangerous and no one has been been enforcing the rules on product safety. TEMU and Alibaba are quite squarely placed in their sights but thia also applies to the likes of Amazon, where their standards have been slipping of late. GPRS applies to ALL products for import into the EU and EEA including Switzerland, Luxembourg and Andorra among other places.

i use to buy car parts from Ebay and other suppliers in uk but rarely do now because of customs and excise etc, too expensive now ☹.

We've had a postal strike in Canada since November 15th! A lot of small businesses are suffering and other companies who take charity donations are also suffering. It has been said that there are around "a couple million" parcels stuck because of the strike. Which I think is an understatement as they go through nearly that much in a day this time of year. It is likely post offices in other countries were told to not send anything to us. And an estimated 185k passports are also stuck. Supposedly, they're back to work tomorrow but they've got their work cut out for them! I have been waiting on a number of items including the HubNut callendar. Good thing it is for next year!

BREXIT BENEFIT :- Thoses B&W films with Kenneth More and John Mills were winderfull werent they? 😂 Propaganda.

"People in Northern Ireland..their items have to match the standards in the EU". I don't know who told you that rubbish Ian but it is completely wrong. Yes, for items going to the EU the border is in the Irish Sea supposedly, but anything going to N. Ireland is still treated as posting within the UK. As I posted in one of your other videos, you need to have serious words with whatever shipping company you are using. NONE of these new rules applies to N. Ireland as N. Ireland is still part of the UK and can't be treated any differently due to The Windsor Framework which states categorically that N. Ireland is to be treated the same as the rest of the UK. I am in N. Ireland and have ordered a mountain of stuff from Amazon, Millets, Ebay and other companies. None of which have refused delivery to N. Ireland on the basis of these new rules. You have been given the wrong information.

Im in northern ireland, it's another brexit disaster. Hoping it gets sorted soon for everyones sake, Merry Christmas to you and the family

Why people voted for Brexit is beyond me.

So the EU created new rules and it's Brexit that is the problem? The problem has always been the EU!

Best of luck with the postal situation 👍👍👍

Looking longer-term, by 2035 the UK is anticipated to have three million fewer jobs, 32% lower investment, 5% lower exports and 16% lower imports, than it would if we had remained within the EU. Moreover, the UK will be £311bn worse off by 2035, due to leaving the EU. Yet still, people believe in unicorns and continue to support the likes of Monsieur Farage & Co. It is truly, truly unbelievable. 🫣

Northern Ireland left out in the cold.

We struggled to get certain boat engines from the EU , along with some steel , its messed up people living abroad or having a home they used for 6 months continuously. Where are the benefits we were promised haven't seen any myself.

Sadly the result of a massive, important decision being given to a huge number of uninformed people who treated it like an x factor vote. Like you im still waiting to see the benefits. We seem to just get told 'you lost get over it' like its a football match and winning is the only thing that matters.

It's been the same in reverse, I've wanted a particular camera bag which is German but I can't get it in the UK even as a special order. A trip to Germany would be my only solution. 🤬

Most of the staunch Brexiteers have already died of old age, now we face the shit show

And it is also a frustration for us in the eu i was building up a sm32 model narrowgauge railroad .....ive had to scrap my plans as it has become unfeasable to buy track and stock from britain where almost all sm32 models are build

Surly it’s up to the people of the EU to complain and work against the silly restrictions of the oppressive and over controlling, petty self appointed and none democratic rulers. Democracy is the only rule we should follow and this country is rapidly going down the slippery slope of the tyranny of dictatorship. We voted for Brexit, agree or not agree with the result , we should move on and try and make the best of it .

Don't you have a friend or nephew or niece in Ireland? Than you send it to them and they send it to us....

It's a disaster! All prices (almost all!) we have to pay customs and taxes for! So what I do, I don't buy stuff from the UK anymore!

Brexit has caused such a terrible mess on all levels. I can't think of a single benefit. Let's get this farce sorted out and rejoin our neighbours. If they will have us! Merry Christmas to all of the HubNut family ❤

Brexit's Benefits likely went to BoJo's boffins.

Good to hear a reasoned Brexit argument that didn’t resort to shouting! Seriously, I’m sorry for all UK businesses struggling with the aftermath of Brexit, which is gradually drip-feeding more and more hassle and expense to those trading across The Channel. It’s particularly impacting small businesses like yours as you point out Ian. I’ve taken early retirement, but when the Brexit referendum took place I worked for a large international company with European headquarters in Rolle, Switzerland and Global Headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the US. Even within our own company I realised the importance of ease of trade and movement across borders. Every day dozens if not more of us were travelling across borders for meetings and conferences. I realised the issues Brexit would cause even within our business, let alone dealing with customers and the like. Brexit was all about the greedy rich accruing more wealth at the expense of everyone else. Look how so called patriots shorted the Pound during the Brexit vote. It never was about sovereignty and it never was to benefit the ordinary people of this country. And to Brexiteers, no I won’t get over it. You’ve made all of us ordinary people worse off and harmed our future opportunities.

EU GSPR favours the big corporations not the little guy , we are best off out of it .

But just hold on awhile; Remember, they need us more than we need them. Brexit was going to be all sunlit uplands and free Unicorns with every Blue passport issued.

Can't you just label it "SOVERRINTY" Ian and then surely Johnny Foreigner would understand what we "won"? On a serious note I agree it was sold on lies. We joined the CPTPP today. Will that have any impacts on things you send to NZ and OZ?

The joys of brexsh!t utter farce

So sorry that you are added to those inconvenienced by Brexit. - There's a BBC headline today "Woman sentenced for throwing milkshake at Nigel Farage" - why - did she miss, or fail to throw something heavier?!

Or perhaps you are being punished for daring to defy the EU? Polls found that the main reasons people voted Leave were "the principle that decisions about the UK should be taken in the UK", and that leaving "offered the best chance for the UK to regain control over immigration and its own borders. According to Google at least either way, the little guy always gets squished.

Is this the same EU that is trying to ban classic car ownership? Be careful what you wish for!

Oh, and regardless of the BS we are all having to handle MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!

But all that lovely sovereignty… shelves are full of it 🙄

and just in time for Christmas too! On top of that, forget about shipping to Canada, postal workers on strike, and in the US the guy running our Postal Service, who was appointed by Trump the last time and didn't leave like they normally do when Pres changes (10 year appointment), has our postal system so messed up like 65% of the mail gets delivered on time and sits on trains long enough our west for thugs to break in and clean them out.... So, good luck getting anything delivered here, especially to our left coast. Brexit was your turn on proving the electorate, when force fed lies, will believe what they are fed, no matter how large the lie. I'll stop there so I don't go into American politics that totally disgust me as Brexit does you.

Introduce this bullocks (EU) or strike (Canada) during the run up to a busy holiday like Christmas? Why? For maximum impact on the bottom dollar: more money for the EU and pain / inconvenience to end the strike in the union favor in Canada. Either way, its all nasty bull-dooky.

Thank Farage and Johnson for their lies, bullshit and destroying the future for the kids of the UK.

It's also difficult to import things from the uk to Ireland. Ebay is just impossible now. Even amazon can cause problems.

These rules have been introduced to protect the EU businesses from the cheap sellers from China, making sure that they have to operate with the same accountability. If we had been still a part of the EU this would be protecting the UK small businesses like HubNut's merch store but thanks to us leaving we are now treated as a 3rd Country so the rules are designed to make it harder for us to trade with them. Note it's not aimed at us, it's aimed at all countries outside of the EU Trading Bloc. So it's a direct result of the Leave vote. We have gone from being one of the countries that helped set the rules and shaped them for our best interest to not having a say at all but thanks to geography and the fact that the EU is our closest trading partner we now have to abide by rules we have no say over if we want to trade with them. All the talk of 'Taking Back Control' has in fact achieved the complete opposite and it's the smaller businesses and people that are being hit hardest. Big companies are suffering too but their scale meant they can at least cope. The only positive out of all of this (and I'm really clutching at straws for this) is that all of my Leave voting friends and a acquaintances are now say 'This isn't what we voted for' or words to that effect, that's if they're saying anything at all. It's one giant mess and I don't see it getting better any time soon.

I don’t love the EU, and if you feel the same, the best way to annoy the EU would have been for Britain to stay in the EU! Why? Because the UK had a privileged position that really annoyed many in the EU, we had a veto voting power, kept our own currency, no Euro, and were not part of Schengen. In the end, Brexit wasn’t about Europe it was the outpouring of dissatisfaction with Westminster that politicians cynically deflected, in the short term at least, onto the EU.

Nothing wrong with BREXIT, it's the FACT that the EU is SPITEFULLY penalizing the UK for leaving the unelected "elite" club where one of the benefits is free Viagra for the elite. (says a lot about them.) The FACT is the the Remainer politicians (MOST) deliberately scuppered any deal, three years of messing about to stop any deal and then COVID. If the politicians had honoured the wish of the majority and negotiated robustly and with sincerity, we would have got a better deal. The crap deal is to annoy everyone so at a later date they'll return (most can't see they're being USED again to implement the elite's wishes.) The benefits would of certainly come had not the remainers signed up to keep most of the EU rules! But don't worry Ian, this gov is going to do its best to get us in through the back door and then all your postal worries will be over! All's well in the world.

It was all about taking back control apparently! Shame that nobody stopped to wonder that if any our great leaders actually had any clue on how to do that! Covid delayed the impact of the chaos but now its starting to really head off the cliff!

Hi Ian, what a nightmare. Might I suggest you email your local MP and your Welsh Assembly member with a link to this video, to raise the issue more formally. I'd ask them to comment and help as well. FWIW I think you present the issue in a very reasonable way which I think is difficult to dismiss regardless of viewpoint.

We should have stayed in.

Ohh God Ian don't get political

At least some of the confusion seems to be that is being left to sellers and marketplaces to sort out rather than manufacturers. I don't see why a seller would be able to supply safety information for a t-shirt they bought from a supplier, surely that should rest with whoever is making it. I hope I haven't been wearing my Hello Happy t-shirt in an unsafe manner.