To those who voted for Brexit

[HappyClappy1]

Are you happy with your decision?

How can anyone be happy with the U.K. leaving the EU when you look at Northern Ireland or do those happy with Brexit not care?

No its not. Just look at NI as a pp has pointed out. Look at businesses that have already suffered huge loses.

It is biologically impossible for a virus to write customs regulations. People have hands. They did it - not a virus.

[quote whatthejiggeries]@LynetteScavo there are still no roaming charges in Europe - result!! [/quote]
From next year there will be. As people projected, and which was described as pRoJeCt FeAr, like other things which we were told wouldn’t happen.

Even Jacob Rees Mogg suggested it could take 50 years to judge whether Brexit has been an economic success.

Something like 5 million EU citizens living in the U.K. have applied to stay here, exceeding the estimate by more than a million so it definitely seems like plenty of EU citizens want to become Brits in Brexity Britain. Which is great

Very happy. This is it in a nutshell:

@GrumpyMiddleAgedWoman

I was a marginal leave voter. I remain a marginal leave voter.

I'm worried about NI and food standards. On the other hand I'm quietly hoping that we can slow population growth which will reduce the amount of new housebuilding and, in the long run, leave us in a better position with regard to food security.

I'm not remotely anti-immigrant, btw. I was though very concerned that the level of immigration we were seeing was unsustainable, in terms of population pressure on the land alone.

The stupid thing was we could have had far greater controls on immigration while staying within the EU such as having to be in paid employment within 3 months. Our government chose not to implement them. Other EU countries did.

@sashagabadon

Something like 5 million EU citizens living in the U.K. have applied to stay here, exceeding the estimate by more than a million so it definitely seems like plenty of EU citizens want to become Brits in Brexity Britain. Which is great

So not quite the inhospitable, racist, xenophobic country we were made out to be?!

The stupid thing was we could have had far greater controls on immigration while staying within the EU such as having to be in paid employment within 3 months who was going to run the checks, pay for the checks and handle the deportation?
Also paid employment is a red herring, you could earn minimum wage in a retail job and have 3 kids on the nhs and in school- hardly a benefit to the U.K. is it?!

Britain had one of the highest testing rates so was more aware of the prevalence of covid19.

I don't know tbh, I was always a swing vote up until the tick on the vote. I can see that things have been more difficult than expected but I do feel it's too early to tell whether it'll be better or worse long term.

[quote Schmoana]Brexit did not speed up vaccines, it’s another government lie

www.bbc.co.uk/news/55163730

www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/factcheck-brexit-did-not-speed-up-uk-vaccine-authorisation

fullfact.org/health/coronavirus-vaccine-brexit/

www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/blog/covid-vaccine-decisions-brexit[/quote]
This is one of the reasons the government is so keen on privatising Channel 4 (to sell it to one of their pro-Brexit, pro-nationalist chums, no doubt).

What is there even to be happy about? So far all I see happening is food supply disruption, lack of hospitality staff, no veg fruit pickers so more food problems. Have we seen any actual benefits at all? I can’t think of even one to be fair

To the people who are saying “all the disastrous things that were supposed to have happened haven’t happened” – many of those things have already happened in NI, so thanks very fucking much for not considering us at all when you made your selfish vote.

Yes I'm happy. But I'm not going to list reasons because any rational debate on Brexit seems to invariably descend into thinly veiled personal attacks on people that voted Leave. The implications and effects of Brexit will undoubtedly take years to play out but it's five years since the referendum and the U.K. has now left.

This is one of the reasons the government is so keen on privatising Channel 4 (to sell it to one of their pro-Brexit, pro-nationalist chums, no doubt)

I hope they do this soon. We need increased plurality on TV and move away from the woke agenda that has hijacked most media.

Mustlovegin

So only white, straight, able-bodied British opinion should be represented in TV?

“Schmoana
Brexit did not speed up vaccines, it’s another government lie

www.bbc.co.uk/news/55163730

www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/factcheck-brexit-did-not-speed-up-uk-vaccine-authorisation

fullfact.org/health/coronavirus-vaccine-brexit/

www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/blog/covid-vaccine-decisions-brexit

This is one of the reasons the government is so keen on privatising Channel 4 (to sell it to one of their pro-Brexit, pro-nationalist chums, no doubt).“

Yes, and threatening the BBC re the license fee.

Sovereignty

What tangible benefit has this brought us? What laws have we introduced that we couldn't whilst a member of the EU?

@LadyLolaRuben

Britain had one of the highest testing rates so was more aware of the prevalence of covid19.

To a degree that might be true but other EU countries did test from the get go and contrary to the impression given in parts of the MSM other EU countries do perform surge testing and do indulge in genetic sequencing….

IMVHO I’d agree that’s not been done in EU countries at a national level in the way UK has done it but due to in the magic of statistics I’m not sure having the highest testing rate necessarily and in itself provides a massive advantage when it comes to the practicalities of fighting the disease……

@Parker231

How can anyone be happy with the U.K. leaving the EU when you look at Northern Ireland or do those happy with Brexit not care?

They don't care, clearly.

frg124

If you never list what ypu are happy about, you don't change the narrative. I'd be really interested to hear what you are happy about.

Currently, I can't see much but would be interested.

I can do reams on what isn't going well, and appears to be v short sighted.

Schmoana I've said we need opinions from all sides - which we don't have at the moment as everything (from films, to ads, to newspapers) is co-opted by the extreme Left and woke brigade

The people who are happy but won't say what they're happy about...I presume that they're just happy that they got what they voted for rather than any actual tangible benefits. They didn't like the EU and now we're out of it. Doesn't matter if we actually end up worse off as a result, because we've got our mythical sovereignty back. Or something.

@sashagabadon

Something like 5 million EU citizens living in the U.K. have applied to stay here, exceeding the estimate by more than a million so it definitely seems like plenty of EU citizens want to become Brits in Brexity Britain. Which is great

Many of those applications are multiple ones done in error plus its thought over a million EU citizens have gone home.

This is born out by the shortages of skilled staff businesses are now experiencing, drivers, trades, care, food, agri, warehousing. hospitality.

However, these sorts of questions by the OP are tiring now, we have left, will never re join and its time to move on and get the benefits of Brexit, which so far appear to be also in short supply.

No, you actually can't go on holidays to Europe without having to quarantine. This wouldn't have been the case before Brexit.

Why would it have been different if not for Brexit? Are you saying France would be able to control their own borders. And been forced to let us in despite sky high covid? Because it’s been said on mumsnet many times that people who voted leave were mistaken when they said Brussels sets out border policy.

For what it’s worth I voted remain, but now I regret that and wish I’d voted leave,