Breaking UK out of EU [#1562, DONE]

I don’t see the reason to change it. The UK is still considered apart of Europe, regardless of them breaking away from the EU. From what I understood breaking away from the EU means they are no longer part of the EUs political bodies/institutions. Unless the UK decides to break away as a country from Europe then I don’t think there needs to be a change. Europe is a whole, and starting to dissect what belongs and what doesn’t will just lead to a headache further down the road.

Now if people are wanting to be able to go over to the Europe side and switch between countries, now that is something I can understand them wanting to ‘break’ from. It might be easier to filter out by countries in Europe at the top of the main dashboard screen.

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I see no reason what so ever to separate GB from EU regions on this website. GB are still a part of Europe. The only thing to come from a separation would be a less efficient morph market (having to keep changing regions).

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And if you would break them up, then what do you do with Ireland? They are still EU but considering distance there is more chance they buy in Britain then European mainland. I think it’s better to leave it like it is. As soon as I see a £ sign in front of the price instead of the € sign I know enough. I don’t need to switch region to figure out the first one is a British breeder.

On top of that, are Canadian breeders not also listed under United States?! Simply check Mutation Creations. So if we make a different region for UK then where do we stop?

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Yeah guys, this has to do with honoring the peoples vote on the mater. Seems petty to make it about reptile sales.

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I honestly can’t believe they have gotten requests for this :joy::joy::joy:

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I can’t see the point of having a UK region tbh. We are still apart of Europe geographically.

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I think it would be good to have the UK in a seperate tab.

Can you maybe explain why you think it would be good to have the UK seperate? I’m curious to hear your motivation for this.

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If it is just for the sake of only seeing animals locally then I do get you reasoning but the Morphmap can be used to do that exact thing, and then we also end up with Alaska, Texas, Oregon, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, California and Michigan (which are US states that are all bigger than England) wanting the same.

Shipping isn’t all that more expensive from parts of Europe to the UK.
I have been quoted £60 to get one snake from Cornwall and also £70 to get up to ten snakes from Hamm… £10 more for nine more snakes to be shipped.

I think a better way of getting around this, for people that wish to only see local animals is a “near me” filter.

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Yes it was only on the basis to see animals that are local or in the same country for example, purely for ease of use. Will check out morph map like you have mentioned

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Yes, we would definitely like to build more functionality around local search (e.g., my province / near me is a highly requested feature esp in US), but that is different than breaking up a region.

Probably part of the problem is the technical difference between the formal EU and broader Europe. And we are using the /eu route, and have the EU flag as the icon. But I’m not sure what logo would be a better representation of the broader location.

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The “EU flag” is actually the “Flag of Europe” and is also used by the Council of Europe… Basically Europe and the EU have the same flag.

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Hahaha, so you have the UK and all the rest of Europe. I do consider the UK important, but not more or less than any other country in Europe. Than I want also the Dutch flag in it, and the German, and the Belgium, and the Danish, and oh lets not forget the Bulgarian and Romanian and…there are some breeders from there on morphmarket… :grin: I think you get my point.

I really do respect you guys all in the UK, but let’s not forget that there are also several countries in Europe that never joined the EU. And for me as a Dutch person I have more chance getting a British snake (in fact our ball python Eddie comes from a British breeder) than one from Bulgaria or Lithuania. I can get to Britain straight by train without even changing train. from here to Bulgaria it takes me 3,5 hours by plane.

@john, I would indeed appreciate something like a functionality that searches within a certain amount of kilometers. As a mainland citizens living close to Germany and Belgium it’s not borders that limits me in buying a snake, it’s distance especially since there are a lot of breeders who only offer local pickup or on the major expo’s. My snakes are originated in total 4 different countries and I picked them almost all up myself from the breeder.

Considering the European flag, it was designed in 1955 for the European Consul as a sign for promoting the European cultural identity and protection of human rigths. It was adopted by the EU but mainly represents the ideals of unity, solidarity and harmonie between all Europeans ( result of a simple google session on the website from our government about the European flag). EU started in 1993. I was even there. I lived in Maastricht at that time just across the street of the centre where the whole convention was taking place. So even though the UK doesn’t want to be in the EU anymore, you are still as fellow Europeans in my heart :smiling_face_with_three_hearts: :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

But to be honest, I don’t really care which sign you use for Europe, as long as I can still find beautifull snakes.

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It doesn’t really matter, but if we are to get our own mm area tab could we please add a distance filter for searching? That would be very useful.

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I see what you are saying about putting the filter on the dash board, but there is already the option to filter by country when you get to the specific snakes you are looking at under the filter tab. Do we really need two filter sections?

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I believe untill We have the right information on how to import and export from EU to UK and vise versa, we should be mindful on buying from the EU.
I know a few people who have messaged the Reptile couriers including walkers and they all seem to not want to travel to the EU due to paper work… I understand everyone above who have said let’s not make the UK separate from the EU but what’s the point if we cant import from the EU?
Has anyone above read that we might have to quarantine animals coming into the UK?
Because I have (depending on species) and it states that animals may have to spend 48 hours- 40 days in quarantine at a nominated facility :scream:
This seems very unfortunate at the moment and I believe time will tell moving forward.
I also believe that the UK market will be stronger IF the importation of animals from the EU proves to be very difficult.

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This is the only concrete thing I’ve been able to find so far…



An update from my side here. Breaking out UK from EU this year would be doable. We already have the distance feature requested above, but I still need to do more work to support better cross-region support. For example, right now there are no ads which are cross-region which makes them very separate. In the future (this year) a new feature would allow ads from breeders who can export to show up in those regions. At that point we could separate those regions without losing whatever commerce is possible. I plan to do the same with the US & Canada.

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We’ve finally solved this with overlapping regions. It’s not an either/or.

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