Brexit supporters - is there anything the EU introduced you want to keep?

[jewel1968]

I was wondering if people who support Brexit want to keep anything you might associate with EU. I am thinking of things like food labelling that helps those with allergies etc...

Is there anything you don't want to lose when independence is realised. I imagine whilst you might not be a fan of the EU project there are likely to be some things you think we're a good thing you would not want eroded.

[Mistigri]

People won't want to lose the freedom to take pets on holidays with minimal formalities.

[LightandAiry]

What about the EHIC card? Entitles us to healthcare in EU countries often free depending on the country and emergency healthcare

[jewel1968]

Some of this will be part of the negotiations but other things will be for domestic policy/politics. So things like food labelling I would hope would continue....

[Danetobe]

The US won't like the idea of keeping food labelling rules I imagine.

What about the restrictions on various paints used on children's toys and furniture?

[jewel1968]

I really hope that people who support Brexit are not also people who argue that everything the EU did or introduced is something to undo now. The lack of responses from Brexit supporters is notable.

[TheGreatWave]

Roaming I guess.

( I am not a supporter and I never go out the UK anyway)

[Peregrina]

Where are the Brexit suppporters? Is there nothing they want to keep, even those rules proposed by the UK before the ERG/UKIP/Tories decided that the EU was the root of all evil?

[jewel1968]

Surely there is something Brexit supporters would retain or improve on?

[SilverySurfer]

No.

[TheGreatWave]

No

Well that means you are probably one of the following: Trolling, Selfish or fairly clueless.

Roaming Regulation
TUPE regs.
Flight Compensation Regulations.
Consular Protection Directive.

Other ones such as Pet Passports, or Driving Licences, fair enough, I guess they aren't too big a hurdle to get over, the others many will have benefited from, shame that the thought is then that everything about the EU is bad.

So either you didn't know about these or you did and just thought that you didn't /don't benefit from them, so no one needs them.

[Deadsouls]

I think this is a good question to reflect upon but I also think that it's the kind of question that will make Brexit supporters dig their heels in further.

To admit that there might be some benefits of EU membership that they might want to retain would be a concession.

Some people don't want to concede, not even an inch. It would call into question their position.

[jewel1968]

Deadsouls - I see your point about icing an inch but I was hoping brexit supporters would agree that some things were good. It is possible to have a problem with the EU project as a whole but recognise there were some good things introduced that we should retain or improve upon. Food labelling for me is a big one having a son with significant life threatening allergies.

[catsingangs]

I heard this mentioned on the radio yesterday. It seems that most still want to hang on to some of the benefits that the EU have given us.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-trade-deal-brexit-news-eu-public-support-a9316511.html

Boris Johnson's push to diverge from EU regulations lacks public support, polling expert says.

Speaking on Tuesday, the academic presented polls showing the majority of the public support keeping key EU rules such as mobile roaming and flight compensation regulations post-Brexit.

The most recent poll – on maintaining EU mobile roaming charge rules – in September 2019 showed 72 per cent of all voters supported keeping the regulation, including 65 per cent of those who voted Leave.

“For the most part, the issue of regulation is not necessarily one that particularly exercises Leave voters. They are not quite as keen on the idea that we should follow European Union regulations.

“But even so, around two-thirds of them on mobile phone roaming and on flight compensation, say yes we should follow the European Union rules. The division here is not so stark. I’ve got lots of other questions and similarly got the same thing.”

On the de-regulation of food standards after Brexit, the polling expert also presented evidence that both Leave and Remain voters did not want to allow chlorinated chicken and hormone treated beef into the UK market – something the US has floated.

“We simply asked people should these be allowed to be sold in the UK after the Brexit and very few people said yes,” Sir John added.

[Peregrina]

I saw Johnson extolling the virtues of genetically modified "Golden Rice" today. is this a priority in the UK when rice although enjoyed by many of us, is not a staple food in the way that it is in south east Asia?

[MarshmallowManiac]

I am DEFINITELY not a Brexit supporter, but I would like to keep the workers' rights which we have enjoyed under the EU, but somehow I suspect they will dwindle quietly over the years.

[KonTikki]

Freedom of Movement ...
but then I voted to Remain,
Sorry !!

[DullPortraits]

OP most people who voted for brexit can't even name something the EU introduced that they cannot wait to get rid of apart from freedom of movement obviously but only "foriners" moving freely into the UK not the other way around. So good luck with this post

[soruff]

If it is not too late to revive this thread:
We are a Brexit house, but like many others we like spending time in France. In a previous address we were strong supporters of our town Twinning with a similar size one in Normandy. The schools did exchange top juniors and the Comp. The friends we made did not speak English but we managed for a weekend.
I hope we can keep the ease of travel. We need to look at pet travel regulations. Rabies is now close to the Channel Ports. We don't need to take that risk
Surely TUPE started long before the EU.

[Doubletrouble99]

As a Brexit voter I see no reason why we wouldn't keep food labelling, environmental regulations and workers rights. If anything I'd like to see them improved and modified to better fit our country. But I'm really not that bothered about the likes of mobile phone roaming and animal passports.

[catsingangs]

A ban on country of origin labelling (COOL) regulations could be a result of a trade deal with the US.

www.independent.co.uk/voices/chlorinated-chicken-usa-trade-deal-donald-trump-brexit-a8295141.html

[prettybird]

Surely TUPE started long before the EU.

Oh the naïveté - although I suppose you could technically say it was before the EU as it was implemented as part of our European Community membership. I'm old enough to remember when they first came in .

https://www.personneltoday.com/hr/tupe-transfer-of-undertakings-protection-of-employment-regulations/

What are the TUPE regulations? First introduced in 1981, the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of employment) regulations were introduced to protect workers involved in transfers. They were introduced to comply with the European Community Directives covering the transfer of employees. The TUPE regulations have subsequently been amended and are now known as TUPE 2000^

[soruff]

@prettybird, Thank you for agreeing with me.
What year did the EEC change to EU? It was surely after 1981.
Well done also on the spelling of naivete. I don't know where to find that symbol with the dots over a letter or is it a separate letter complete with dots that you have used. Do you have to set a different language?

[prettybird]

I think you miss my point.

You can read more if you want here https://www.britannica.com/topic/European-Community-European-economic-association

And naïveté is easy with autocorrect - but I'd have spelt it correctly anyway even without autocorrect (It's harder on my old laptop but still possible).

I for one am grateful for the additional rights that EC (as was) and EU membership gave us and don't look forward to those rights being eroded. Although the "Level Playing Field" requirement if we want a FTA should help protect them.

[strugglingwithdeciding]

Of course some things were good and I think most of the things you mention will not go
Alp remember that if we export to Eu we will still have to meet their regulations
But not every regulation is an eu one we have some of our own and may if implemented many wether in or out
We will still work with Eu on-things as well
It's not like we leave and then start with a blank canvas and have to start again

[strugglingwithdeciding]

Also we were part of the discussions on Eu rulings and ideas and things like workers rights we had unions etc for years before the Eu
It's like you think the Eu was two men in a room making up the rules and that no country brought its own idea or discussed . And many of these regulations are followed by more than jus the Eu