Briton sells German car and replaces it with Japanese model after Berlin antics

The German media outlet Die Welt quoted data submitted by the Ifo Institute which stated Britain’s share in exports from the European Union had fallen from 6.2 percent in 2019, to 5.2 percent in 2021. Venting their anger at the German jibe against Brexit Britain, Express.co.uk readers shared their views on dealing with the EU, and took their own form of revenge against Berlin.

Playing his part in the deliberate reduction of trade between Britain and Germany, one reader took an extreme measure.

Belperboy said: “Last month I sold my German manufactured Audi A6 and replaced it with a new Lexus.

“If we were still in the EU I might have purchased another German car, but their antics swayed me away.”

He was not alone.

K69tie agreed and added: “You and many more of us.”

Moonraker embraced the notion that Britain was free to trade where it likes following Brexit.

He said: “Of course trade with the vassal states of some hostile trading block has dropped off, we’re buying our goods from free countries now.”

Pini72u agreed that the drop in trade was because of a more open market, saying: “The reason it has dropped is that we are buying from another source.”

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Dave155x discussed how Britain has set its sights on a wider global market than before.

He said: “Britain has found other trading partners and are now less reliant on the European market,

“Strawberries from Morocco wine from Chile olives from Mexico, just a small sample of world produce we have access to.”

He ended: “Don’t gloat Germany you need us a lot more than you pretend.”

Looking at the impact on the EU, Prometheus said: “The Munich-based research centre also found the proportion of UK imports from the bloc fell from 4.4 percent in 2015 to just 2.6 percent last year,

“How much of that business now goes to UK companies.

“It’s funny how that try to make out the drop in imports is just a UK issue but what about the drop in EU exports.”

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Brian at Home reminded everyone that the whole world suffered an economic drop over the last two years.

He said: “Every country in the world had a fall in trade in 2021 due to Covid.

“UK trade did not fall as badly as German trade.”

Ending the debate, Careful Consideration said: “Brexit means less EU trade and more global trade – we are moving in the right direction.”

Since emerging from the Covid pandemic, and starting to see the benefits of Brexit, Britain has enjoyed one of the fastest growth rates in the developed world.

In 2020, Germany exported around £13bn worth of cars to the UK.

Around one in seven cars made in Germany are sold in Britain.

A global shortage in microchips has seen the production of cars around the globe slip as supply fails to meet demand.