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Benefits of Brexit?

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NotAgainFrederick · 02/02/2023 17:09

Just interested to know what benefits have we had as a result of Brexit?

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Pedallleur · 08/02/2023 21:32

Worth a watch on YouTube is Michael Heseltine in the Lords talking about Brexit. He is v.scathing in a diplomatic way. He was involved in the single market under Thatcher/Major so knows a lot about it.

MotherofPearl · 08/02/2023 21:59

How has Brexit really effected you personally? I’m genuinely interested to know.

THE 4% HIT TO GDP CAUSED BY BREXIT IMPACTS ON EVERYONE LIVING IN THE UK. How is it possible that you don't know this?

And it's affected, not effected, in the context you used it, btw.

jgw1 · 09/02/2023 06:59

MotherofPearl · 08/02/2023 21:59

How has Brexit really effected you personally? I’m genuinely interested to know.

THE 4% HIT TO GDP CAUSED BY BREXIT IMPACTS ON EVERYONE LIVING IN THE UK. How is it possible that you don't know this?

And it's affected, not effected, in the context you used it, btw.

But that is all part of the Tory party plan to reduce the size of the UK economy relative to the rest of the world.
The UK Economy is about 20% smaller compared to historic trends since 2010 that it would otherwise be.
Yet somehow the rich keep getting richer....

Alexandra2001 · 09/02/2023 07:29

How has Brexit really effected you personally? I’m genuinely interested to know

You re probably not... but here goes...

Import costs from Europe to UK, certain imports have rocketed in price or are no longer available, also loss of EU wide pricing, some of which are very significant... frustrating to see items i need in EU but not in UK and no option to send to UK and/or 20% more expensive than EU.

Loss of EU HCPs, instead replaced with sub standard trained and in language nurses carers etc ... Big impact on my DD working in the NHS, has to double check notes, drugs administered, decisions on discharge made.

Loss of pet passports, Vets are now either not issuing pet heath certs or charging up to £400... and this is per trip!!

Now.. how about you responding to the question i asked early "What are these Brexit opportunities any Govt has to navigate too?"

jgw1 · 09/02/2023 07:52

Alexandra2001 · 09/02/2023 07:29

How has Brexit really effected you personally? I’m genuinely interested to know

You re probably not... but here goes...

Import costs from Europe to UK, certain imports have rocketed in price or are no longer available, also loss of EU wide pricing, some of which are very significant... frustrating to see items i need in EU but not in UK and no option to send to UK and/or 20% more expensive than EU.

Loss of EU HCPs, instead replaced with sub standard trained and in language nurses carers etc ... Big impact on my DD working in the NHS, has to double check notes, drugs administered, decisions on discharge made.

Loss of pet passports, Vets are now either not issuing pet heath certs or charging up to £400... and this is per trip!!

Now.. how about you responding to the question i asked early "What are these Brexit opportunities any Govt has to navigate too?"

A fine list of the benefits of Brexit.

ArseInTheCoOpWindow · 09/02/2023 08:36

Here’s a list of Brexit benefits:

Alexandra2001 · 09/02/2023 12:34

ArseInTheCoOpWindow · 09/02/2023 08:36

Here’s a list of Brexit benefits:

Thats quite an exhaustive list... covers all the bases.

28January · 09/02/2023 13:43

Hollow laugh.

juggleit · 10/02/2023 23:29

jgw1 · 05/02/2023 11:52

Perhaps you could explain to us what those regulations are, and how they have changed since we left the EU?

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my point wasn’t about the regulations passé but the fact that there are some countries within the EU that lack the level of inspection that we, in the uk are exposed to.
it will be up to the Uk Government to decide which Laws are kept and those which are to be discarded.

BitOutOfPractice · 11/02/2023 00:34

Oh how I am laughing at your pride in our “levels of inspection” and high standards as 4 million people in the uk live in fire unsafe properties, all inspected and signed off by British experts to British building regulations. Your point of view is deluded at best, old fashioned nationalism at worst.

LexMitior · 11/02/2023 00:37

Tell that to Grenfell, that there is better regulation in the U.K.

jgw1 · 11/02/2023 07:16

juggleit · 10/02/2023 23:29

my point wasn’t about the regulations passé but the fact that there are some countries within the EU that lack the level of inspection that we, in the uk are exposed to.
it will be up to the Uk Government to decide which Laws are kept and those which are to be discarded.

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So these "certain EU regulatiosn" you were discussing you can't name and 7 years after I voted for Brexit because I didn't lke Cameron and foreigners the UK government could decide to change laws, but hasn't yet.

Got to love Brexit, the gift that keeps on giving.

jgw1 · 11/02/2023 07:17

LexMitior · 11/02/2023 00:37

Tell that to Grenfell, that there is better regulation in the U.K.

Not those regulations, certain ones from the EU that only applied in the UK...

juggleit · 11/02/2023 07:40

LexMitior · 11/02/2023 00:37

Tell that to Grenfell, that there is better regulation in the U.K.

I didn’t say we have better regulations.

Alexandra2001 · 11/02/2023 07:44

juggleit · 10/02/2023 23:29

my point wasn’t about the regulations passé but the fact that there are some countries within the EU that lack the level of inspection that we, in the uk are exposed to.
it will be up to the Uk Government to decide which Laws are kept and those which are to be discarded.

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ATM the idea is to remove ALL EU laws and then make new ones... leaving the UK with none, whilst they get on with it...

The timetable is the end of 2023, with an election year in 2024... so how much will get replaced?

Its utter madness.

jgw1 · 11/02/2023 07:44

juggleit · 11/02/2023 07:40

I didn’t say we have better regulations.

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Ah, yes of course, you said we had better inspections, which means of course that Grenfell was inspected and....

thesonicoscillator · 11/02/2023 08:41

I am 100% against Brexit and due to living outside the UK more than 15 years I & millions of others were not allowed to vote in the referendum, or in any election.

Being a British national and managing to legally stay in my EU country has been a long, stressful and expensive experience. At the very beginning,the thought that I was going to be kicked out & have to move back to UK without my OH ( and he's EU and not welcome!) end up homeless & jobless in UK, lose my job & rights to health here, it was terrifying. I feel sick just typing it...

Anyway the benefits:

Well I found out that some of my older Pro Brexshit voting family members really didn't give a flying fuck about what I was going through, they just laughed & carrie don reading the Daily Mail & other racist propaganda, while I had sleepless nights, tears, stress. I really saw their true colours.

After lots of hard lobbying we have finally had our right to vote in UK elections & referendums restored. This is the best news ever. If only we'd been allowed to first time around.

BitOutOfPractice · 11/02/2023 08:59

juggleit · 11/02/2023 07:40

I didn’t say we have better regulations.

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What do you think inspections are carried out to exactly? Fresh air? No our fantastically thorough British inspections you speak of are carried out to British standards.

Take my fiat for instance. Clad with British-made cladding (ineffective against fire), designed incorrectly by a British architect to British Building regulations. Installed incorrectly by a British contractor. And inspected and signed off as all correct by a British building inspector.

So don’t tell me British inspections are superior to elsewhere. They’re not.

I know you want to keep it vague but sorry, there is a specific example and I and millions of others are living with the consequences. Unlike the poor people of grenfell who paid with their lives because of our ‘superior’ British standards.

You are clutching at straws @juggleit because you have absolutely no idea what you’re talking about. Just a vague notion that British is better than what all those foreigners do.

DaSilvaP · 21/02/2023 23:06

JocelynBurnell · 03/02/2023 23:00

Most of UK’s millionaires reckon Brexit will make them even richer, according to a survey by wealth managers at Swiss bank UBS.

The problem is that the other 99+% will be poorer.

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Most of UK’s millionaires reckon Brexit will make them even richer, according to a survey by wealth managers at Swiss bank UBS.
The problem is that the other 99+% will be poorer.

Ahem ... who had the money to finance clowns like Farage (and armies of paid BS artists a.k.a. advertisers) - the 1% or the 99%?

And in whose interest you expected them to use it? Yours or their own?

Seventytwosunsetstrip · 08/03/2023 09:17

thesonicoscillator · 11/02/2023 08:41

I am 100% against Brexit and due to living outside the UK more than 15 years I & millions of others were not allowed to vote in the referendum, or in any election.

Being a British national and managing to legally stay in my EU country has been a long, stressful and expensive experience. At the very beginning,the thought that I was going to be kicked out & have to move back to UK without my OH ( and he's EU and not welcome!) end up homeless & jobless in UK, lose my job & rights to health here, it was terrifying. I feel sick just typing it...

Anyway the benefits:

Well I found out that some of my older Pro Brexshit voting family members really didn't give a flying fuck about what I was going through, they just laughed & carrie don reading the Daily Mail & other racist propaganda, while I had sleepless nights, tears, stress. I really saw their true colours.

After lots of hard lobbying we have finally had our right to vote in UK elections & referendums restored. This is the best news ever. If only we'd been allowed to first time around.

So you haven't lived in UK for 15 years, so haven't paid any taxes here and you want a say in what goes on?

That's a bit ripe.

Kennykenkencat · 08/05/2023 04:50

i have a few friends who were able to finally get jobs after Brexit so for them it was a plus

DaSilvaP · 08/05/2023 22:27

Seventytwosunsetstrip · 08/03/2023 09:17

So you haven't lived in UK for 15 years, so haven't paid any taxes here and you want a say in what goes on?

That's a bit ripe.

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Wait a second ...

Are you arguing that only those paying taxes in UK should vote?

Did you complain about all the EU residents (and other "aliens" as Home Office calls them) who were working and paying taxes for years /decades - and some still do - and no one ever asked them their opinion about anything?

MadeleineMummy · 28/10/2023 23:17

Yes you are right. If Boris said it, then it must be true. Like he said to his wife who had cancer that he wasn’t having an affair.

VeniVidiWeeWee · 28/10/2023 23:45

Holy thread resurrection!

jgw1 · 29/10/2023 07:01

I was most excited when I saw this thread was back, perhaps someone had identified a benefit of Brexit, other than having more pollution in OUR waters.