What does Brexit mean to you?

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Posting here rather than on the brexit topic to hopefully get a wider range of answers.

How do you see the future of the UK once it leaves the EU?

What will change? What will stay the same? What will be the biggest change for the country? Your community? Your family? Your friends? Your job? Or anything else that will be affected.

I'm not looking into a leave v remain debate, just perceived changes. Good or bad.

UK split, fewer jobs, worse for science, workers rights and protections, expensive food, medicines more.expensive and hard to get, NHS privatised.

I can see a lot of unhappiness, as even those who wanted to leave won't agree with everything that happens as a result.

I also anticipate a lot of regret, as the realisation of what has happened sinks in.

I'm really scared for the NHS and medical research and of course, a return to the troubles. On the plus side, might obesity be reversed as we all starve to death?

In the short term, food shortages, job losses, economy tanking, medication not available

In the long term, issues with the NHS, mass emigration, economy tanking even more

As someone who grew up in Northern Ireland I'm worried about the situation back home.

I agree with WaterSheep

Best case, we'll be able to do some deals with EU and the rest of the world, but we'll have lost our standing and reputation and be on worse terms than before Brexit.

Worst case, lower standard of living in the country, lower food standards, fewer workers rights, too embroiled in US politics, made ourselves very unpopular with all our former European allies. Unrest in N.I and the return of terrorism. Union is split, with Scotland joining the EU. Uprising of far right extremism. It could get worse than that.

In terms of the country itself, it'll be generations before the wounds are healed. I think there will be a lot of trouble, especially when it sinks in that politicians lied to get Brexit, and there will be a lot of regret and blaming of others.

An increasingly insular country which is about to split into ever smaller parts.

UK split, fewer jobs, worse for science, workers rights and protections, expensive food, medicines more.expensive and hard to get, NHS privatised.

This for me too. At a personal level I am not British and despite having some very deep ties here I think we’ll be off.

We are all going to die.

despite having some very deep ties here I think we’ll be off.

No one would judge you for it, many; like myself, would envy you.

That our country is going in the wrong direction, we are becoming inward focussed. Practically there will be years more of trade negotiations etc to be done, we won't focus on the very real social problems in our country. There will probably be a recession, I don't think anyone will benefit.
I'm scared for the future.

i'm not going with project fear that's a dead cert, we have to carry on regardless, there is nothing to be gained by worrying about it, we will do what we can.

@ginghambox I'd rather the usual suspects keep out actually. I know their opinions and don't need to hear them again. Otherwise I'd have put this is Brexit.

A lot of people are going to realize too late the reality and that they have been cynically lied to by that dishonest disgrace to the Prime Minister's office Wanker Johnson. Someone will be blamed. I expect they will somehow try to blame it on those of us who always thought it was an idiotic, dangerous idea which benefits those who would have been penalized by EU tax laws and harms pretty much everyone else. I also fear for my elderly parents (I'm based abroad in a non-EU place).

Possibly pulling the plug on the slow decline of our trade with the EU and starting to solve the problem now rather than in ten years.

All I see is racism, everywhere. Brexit legitimised racism again.

I cannot find one good or positive thing about Brexit, not a single thing

Somewhat worried about my position as I live in France, especially if there will be a continued increase in the state pension that I will be entitled to in a few years. Also my other income is in £, and if the pound goes on a slide, will hae much less to live on.

Also, the situation with regards to access to healthcare in France. In theory, having been in France 13 years, will be treated as any French citizen, in practice it doesn't always work like that. Last year, despite my length of residence, the organisation that awards housing benefit asked me for proof of income to show that I'm not a burden on the French state - normally, they'd only ask this if you'd been in France for less than 5 years.

I'm very glad that I got a resident permit, titre de séjour, before the Brexit vote, even though the préfecture said that we didn't need them.

Just have to wait and see how it pans out......

The middle-classes are getting away with calling the working- classes thick and short-sighted. Every penny the middle-class lose because of Brexit will mean another kick to the working-class. That’s how I see things.

I see a continuing deregulation, despite what we've learned about the need for regulation through the financial crisis and also through tragedies such as Grenfell Tower. The main objection to the EU from Conservatives actually seems to be about regulation, so my bet is that the UK will deregulate in order to strike urgently needed trade deals and to stimulate a tanking economy. Of course, the fact that we wouldn't have needed these trade deals or economic measures had we not brexited will be irrelevant.

The myth that it's a class thing continues. Until chickens come home to roost.

Our country being narrower in thought, meaner in spirit and darker in outlook. And the fear that things may get far, far worse.

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/britain-prorouging-boris-johnson-parliament-suspension-richard-evans-weimar

Myth? Haven’t you read the comments mocking ‘thick Northerners’ on this and other forums?

We ask EU for an FTA. EU slaps a version of the WA on the table. More political shenanigans.
Trouble in NI.
Economic shock.
Johnson cuts taxes but ignores most of what was included in Queens Speech bonanza.
Recession.

Short term: Food and medication shortages, civil unrest, rioting and possibly collapse of the government an the NHS

Long Term: UK splits, mass unemployment, expensive food and medication, private healthcare. Possibly civil war.