Daughter with husband and daughter en-route to Spain to little flat they’ve bought for holidays. Hired van to take down stuff from old house in UK to use in Spanish casa. Almost all stuff is old, well used. etc. Couple of new beds and mattresses. Now we are no longer an EU member, we are limited to the “value” of stuff we can take into Europe. Roughly for my party this amounted to some 1,000 Euros. Customs people at Santander pulled them over for inspection. This took four hours. They then said that the value of stuff was in excess of limit and they had to pay 400 Euros NOW or they would not be allowed to enter the country.
Now, aside from the bloody-mindedness of the Spanish jobsworths, this is all down to that fat, ignorant, incompetent, power freak at Number Ten. Just like Thatcher with the Falklands, he must be rubbing his hands with glee that Emperor Vladimir I has caused a war to break out and give BJ the chance to kick everything else under the table.