Brexit: “Move to EU”

I wrote in a previous post about Brexit: “who needs comedy, when reality is this funny, at least from outside the UK.”

This is from The Guardian Jan 23rd 2021:
Move to EU to avoid Brexit costs, firms told

In an extraordinary twist to the Brexit saga, UK small businesses are being told by advisers working for the Department for International Trade (DIT) that the best way to circumvent border issues and VAT problems that have been piling up since 1 January is to register new firms within the EU single market, from where they can distribute their goods far more freely.

I guess that the Free Trade deal means that UK companies are free to set up shop in the EU?

If this was not such a serious issue, this would be funny in the UK as well.

PS This just gets better (or worse, depending on where you live) The Guardian Jan 26th 2021:

Logistics and warehousing companies in the Netherlands are being inundated with requests from British businesses looking to rent warehouse space, as the country experiences a Brexit boom in investment and jobs.
Brexit: Dutch warehouse boom as UK firms forced to invest abroad

The punchline here is: the country experiencing a Brexit boom is not the UK.