GDP was down 2.9% in January as the supply chains have been thrown into havoc and business disruptions have been described as "endemic," and it turns out the
government didn't do an economic assessment on the trade deal despite it being the most consequential trade agreement in memory. It's one thing to have the economy torpedoed by global macro economic conditions, it's an entirely different one to steer the ship headlong into the iceberg as Britain has done.
Shipping between mainland UK to Europe and even Northern Ireland is now such a hassle that I don't consider it unless totally desperate. I shipped some products to a guy in Slovakia and it took 3 weeks to "process" in customs. Germany was about the same, and even Northern Ireland, usually only 2 days took over a week.
The time to process stuff will probably get faster, sure, but still got to attach export documents where they were not required before in addition to the extra cost. Kinda sucks.
In principle, this is more of a problem during the initial period after England's secession from the European Union. However, by this time the government of this country had to prepare accordingly. There was plenty of time
after all, the exit was postponed several times. The countries of the European Union really showed England the advantages of such a union. Perhaps this state of affairs will increase the pressure of the people on the government to re-join the EU.