Quote Originally Posted by WES View Post
There is a rather wonderful cheese shop in Guildford where I am quite the regular. They even began ageing their Morbier at my request.

So I walk into the shop on Satdee to find out that not only do they not have aged Morbier, they are beginning to struggle to maintain their stocks of French cheese generally. Apparently the Froggies have begun checking exports and this is slowing down delivery which compromises the quality of the cheese so the distributors in France (who are oversubscribed three times within the EU) figure there is no point sending it to the UK.

Now I understand Leave's point of view even if I disagree with some of it, but surely democratic principles, immigration concerns etc should not stand in the way of a chap having access to the best cheese possible? That's just not reasonable.

Basically, Leavers out!
Either that is a lie, or les Douaniers have taken it upon themselves to act illegally.

We are still members of the EU. There is no such thing as an 'export' within the EU.

The cheese is in free circulation within the EU - unless, of course, the cheese isn't French at all, but has been imported to France from outside the EU, in which case it will be subject to community transit procedures. The ICTS system is currently down, actually, byt HMRC have authorised the fallback procedure so the only possible reason for your cheese being delayed is that 1) it is Duabaiin cheese and 2) some daft French **** is unable to write out a C88.

Do points 1 and 2 carry a strong air of verisimilitude, would you say?