If you voted for brexit did you get what you wanted?

Forgot about that until ds adult passport arrived the other day!

The in laws voted to leave. Their motivation was to take back control of our borders. They holiday a lot and are fuming at how much longer border control takes on most of their trips. Seeing they’re faces when they found out recently that they’re going to need to pay for Visa waivers soon was hilarious!

They still can’t get their head around why their younger grandchildren can’t easily study in any European universities like one of their older ones did, or why a working a ski season is far more challenging to sort out now than pre-Brexit.

I’m really not sure what they were expecting . I try not to discuss it with them any more.

I'm slightly different in this game.

I was a remainer but respected the democratic vote. So I voted Tory in 2019 to "get brexit done".

I'm not sure I can say what that Brexit was or it's benefitted us and absolutely after the shower of shite that was that Tory party will never vote Tory again either!

I actually wish it had been beneficial despite it not being what I'd voted for. I don't think anyone which ever side you were on wanted failure.

I think it’s cowardice to not be able to admit to Brexit being an utterly terrible, stupid thing for a country as learned ( or so I thought ) as the UK to have done.

Last week, I had to post an item out to my friend in Denmark. After I had paid the shipping fee here, guess what ? She had to then pay an extra £80 to receive it. Customs. Why ? Out of EU rules applied.

If you voted & still insist on Brexit being the best decision we ever made as a country, care to share the one, singular identifiable benefit? No. Not the nonexistent , futuristic ones Farage and Bojo lied to you about.

You know the truth just as well as they & their ilk do : there are no be edits to cutting your nose to spite your face.

Of the people I know who voted Leave, 2 are people I respect but I’ve never gone into their motives. A third was in his early 40s, hadn’t really thought about it but wanted in his own words to give Cameron “a kicking”, but he also admitted afterwards that he regretted it and hadn’t thought it would really happen.

A young man in his 30s thought that “we can just walk away”, but I don’t know if he had thought about how his children’s opportunities were being limited and he acknowledged that the EU benefitted us environmentally, which was the area he worked in.

The fifth person I know was elderly and though she originally voted “In” first time round, she had an unshakable conviction that “they” - unnamed authorities, governments and agencies- are working against us in unspecified ways. Her reasoning about a lot of things was contradictory.

I am very pleased that I voted leave.

This post is quite interesting, I would like to ask the same question to those who voted Labour in July. Might start a thread sometime unless there is already one.

I know one person who voted for Brexit to teach Cameron a lesson.

I guess he got the result he wanted! 😠

See also major meds shortages as pharmaceutical countries prioritise Europe.

Being restricted to 2kg of medical food when travelling from the U.K. to the EU isn't helpful for a lot of disabled people reliant on tube feeds. That was an unexpected and unfair result of brexit. It's a little known and very definitely detrimental change that has left many disabled people feeling even more restricted than they already are. The choice either wing it and hope border control don't pick on you or risk declaring feed and being left without or ending up in trouble. 2kg of medical feed isn't even 2 days worth of food for some people.

The benefits of which are……..?

It wasn't mainly about the economics but it hasn't proved too bad. Growth is roughly the same as the EU since Brexit.

It did mean we were able to negotiate our own vaccine deals during covid.

The problem is we had a lot of people running the UK that didn't believe in Brexit and were actually trying to undermine it so we got a poor deal.

What was it you wanted?

Of the three men in their forties who I know voted Brexit, two were doing it to ‘stick it to the man’ and were pleased with how upset everyone was as that was their goal. The other was voting from a longer term financial markets perspective and now feels it was a mistake.

The two older ones - in their 70s, did it to reduce immigrants. And given that they are still mentioning ‘small boats’ all the time, I don’t think it’s achieved what they hoped for.

I don’t know any women who voted for it. Or admit to. Not saying there weren’t any, I just don’t know their reasonings because they haven’t mentioned it.

I’m so fed up with with politicians right now I’d probably vote for Putin

Why did you never vote for your MEP ?

You wanted this?

• ”Both exports and imports* will be around 15 per cent lower in the long run than if the UK had remained in the EU. The size of this adjustment is calibrated to match the average estimate of a number of external studies that considered the impact of leaving the EU on the volume of UK-EU trade
• New trade deals with non-EU countries will not have a material impact, and any effect will be gradual*”

https://obr.uk/forecasts-in-depth/the-economy-forecast/brexit-analysis/#assumptions

Yes, we left the EU which was the voting aim

Vladimir Putin got want he wanted delivered through his various agents in UK politics. A weaker, more isolated Britain and a weaker EU. Splitting us from international institutions and alliances is exactly what he wanted. And paid for. Plenty of gullible people were persuaded that this was a good thing. Well done (if you voted Brexit) for helping Putin.

Yes I have got everything I wanted ta for asking. And it was 52%, not 50% (in the referendum!)

Many of the shoutiest angriest whingers are people who didn't even vote.

Well I for one am thrilled with my new blue passport. Makes it all totally worthwhile!

This.

The requirement was that bananas with excessive curvature should only be used for industrial purposes and as far as I’m aware our supply of bananas remains unchanged post Brexit. As we never had the Euro, the currency is irrelevant

I didn’t really expect anything in this time frame, but being able to set out own VAT rules was one of my reasons so that’s working out well.

I know some people who voted Leave to destabilise the Union. They're absolutely delighted at the result.