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Daniel Lambert

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Just a guy making a living from selling really good wines to likeminded people.

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Daniel Lambert @daniellambertwines.bsky.social · May 5

Since Brexit became a reality & the transition started (which still hasn’t finished) every stage has been a shit show. Government has been under prepared at each change & more barriers to trade imposed on imports and exports. The right wing press doesn’t write about it because it doesn’t suit them.

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Daniel Lambert @daniellambertwines.bsky.social · 1h

Wow, just booked a last minute flight from Bristol to Bezier for tomorrow, only £49 return on Saturday. Thats a total bargain…

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Daniel Lambert @daniellambertwines.bsky.social · 15h

Brexit has now been active for 5 years. After all this time when I compare trade deals and standards of living inside the EU and UK, well whilst both have issues, but Brexit just adds that extra level of unnecessary cost at a time when everyone wants lower costs. The elephant in the room.

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Daniel Lambert @daniellambertwines.bsky.social · 15h

I left the UK on a personal level 3 years ago because I was lucky enough to have dual nationality. My wife is currently fighting to get her residency renewed, Brexit again but my business in the UK continues. I see how household budgets are being squeezed if you’re working or middle class.

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Daniel Lambert @daniellambertwines.bsky.social · 15h

Brexit has been the worst choice any country has ever made. So when you wonder why you have less money, less freedom, less choice and control of your destiny, remember Brexit. It will keep fucking everyone until someone with a pair does something about it meanwhile the like of Farage get richer.

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Daniel Lambert @daniellambertwines.bsky.social · 15h

On a personal level I campaigned hard on Twitter against all the changes the tories wanted to make, it worked for VI1 but ultimately I had to leave twitter because the personal abuse was becoming too much. Some in my own industry have black balled me because I dareed to disagree with them.

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Daniel Lambert @daniellambertwines.bsky.social · 15h

I might be a small business owner that imports a bit of wine but the impact on my business and life has been huge. Countless new pointless laws introduced, massive costs to business and endless barriers to trade, all of which add NOTHING to the product but costs.

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Daniel Lambert @daniellambertwines.bsky.social · 15h

Politicians to weak & scared to even mention the word Brexit because they don’t want to face up to to the reality of want they have collectively done to the UK. All of them lack a backbone & even Farage the cunt that created this mess says Brexit isn’t working. Yet here we are pretending it’s fine.

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Daniel Lambert @daniellambertwines.bsky.social · 15h

Just because Brexit and its negative effects don’t make headlines any more doesn’t mean it’s finished. Sure people don’t want to talk about it but it’s there like a rope round the neck of the UK economy slowly hanging the nation to a nasty demise.

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Daniel Lambert @daniellambertwines.bsky.social · 15h

Well well well, who knew. Erm the people that bothered to research Brexit and its implications did…

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Brexit Will Damage The UK Economy 'For The Foreseeable Future', Says Bank Of England Chief — HuffPost UK

Andrew Bailey confirms what we've all known for years.

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Daniel Lambert @daniellambertwines.bsky.social · 5d

Yes but poor decision now being made now make things worse. As an example I refer you to the wine tax circus and the luffer curves…

Daniel Lambert @daniellambertwines.bsky.social · 5d

At which point will everyone pretending she can do the job admit she can’t do the job. After all she was only a minor worker at Halifax. Meanwhile everyone else in the UK is getting poorer while she ‘does her best’… 🤦‍♂️

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UK facing highest inflation in G7 in yet another pre-Budget blow for Reeves — The Independent

IMF also trims growth forecast for 2026 in ‘grim’ news for chancellor weeks before Commons statement

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Daniel Lambert @daniellambertwines.bsky.social · 8d

What a month! 7 Countries in 30 days. That’s a lot of sourcing, selling and getting those wines out there!

Daniel Lambert @daniellambertwines.bsky.social · 11d

Just another day in the office… Barbados 2025.

Daniel Lambert @daniellambertwines.bsky.social · 15d

Has there ever been a more ridiculous person controlling a political party? Oh wait a second… reform.

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American Association of Wine Economists AAWE @wineecon.bsky.social · 20d

Global Per Capita Wine, Beer and Spirits Consumption, 1961-2022

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Daniel Lambert @daniellambertwines.bsky.social · 22d

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Daniel Lambert @daniellambertwines.bsky.social · 26d

Of course not, thats how the government gets away with ripping people off.

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Daniel Lambert @daniellambertwines.bsky.social · 26d

I take your point but the greater point is that the government are taxing wine many times over and this is not a commonly known fact. They actually pretend they are being reasonable, which isn’t the case. They are in fact destroying the drinks industry and the many jobs within this sector.

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Daniel Lambert @daniellambertwines.bsky.social · 27d

Have you really ever wondered who the big winners are in selling wine? Have you thought to yourself that wine guy/girl must be loaded? Well sorry to destroy that myth but the only big winners in wine in the UK is HMRC and here is why.

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Daniel Lambert @daniellambertwines.bsky.social · 26d

Yeah we would like to do more with John. But if you ever in Stony Stratford give the Pourhouse a go. They carry a lot of our wines.

Daniel Lambert @daniellambertwines.bsky.social · 27d

Now the UK sells over 12m bottles of wine per day. Whilst the figure is coming down simply because people have less disposable income the government makes over £33.2M per day just in wine revenue. Thats over £12bn PA. So folks the big winners in wine is HMRC & the government, yet we never listen to.

Daniel Lambert @daniellambertwines.bsky.social · 27d

Does that seem fair to you? It’s you the consumer that pays this tax and in return you expect the hospital to work, the road to be smooth and the streets to be clean and safe. That’s the deal right?

Now you know why drinks are expensive, it’s not the supply chains it the greedy UK government.

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Daniel Lambert @daniellambertwines.bsky.social · 27d

So we are left with £1.68. The winery and brokerage fees will be 30% so we we arrive at £1.20 for the actual wine. The UK government gets £5.58 in total taxes, the people doing all the work in the supply chain combined get £4.42. In other words the government takes 55% tax on a £10 bottle of wine.

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Daniel Lambert @daniellambertwines.bsky.social · 27d

Based on the £3.25 with a generous 10% margin for the importer that’s a further 16p to HMRC. Then we have the cost of Brexit paperwork and administration thanks to the Brexit nutters which is another 25p. So we are now down to £2.68. The packaging (bottle, label and cork will be around £1 all in.

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Daniel Lambert @daniellambertwines.bsky.social · 27d

We are now down to £4.63. The retail margin would be 30% at a push so let’s say £1.38. Of this they pay staff NI, rates, corporate tax and personal tax. Being generous let call that 50% of the £1.38 margin so a further 69p. Now we have the importers costs where we repeat the above but on £3.25.

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