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.

Merryberry, nice to know you only have to worry about a shortage of paracetamol

Scottish independence.

Recession

Ds1 graduates next year and im very concerned about his job prospects

Obviously dh job may be at risk together with many many other people’s. In Retail especially

Further cuts, NHS in more trouble, break up of the union

The U.K. becoming a smaller, poorer, more isolated, more divided, less influential country.
Actually I think this will tip the balance for independence in Scotland so there will be no UK.
Currently working overseas and will look hard at emigrating permanently, (one family member has already done this)

NHS workforce so depleted that the NHS is sold off in chunks to the highest bidder and as in the states we all pay for very expensive health insurance. Trump rubs his hands in glee.

@WaterSheep I was just thinking that today. How far we have fallen. Very sad.

greentheme23 Indeed, the next few years will be full of regrets.

The grass is always greener...

Perhaps I might feel more hopeful if @User344772734481882445 can tell me who are the right people to listen to.

I voted remain. I think it will be fine in the long run. I think there will be lots of panic at first.

A generational divide, with the young incandescent and seething with rage at the generation that crapped so casually on their future.

How long is 'the long run' though, wiltshirelass?

10 years, 20? 50? 100?

I mean, I hope you're right, but 'fine in the long run' isn't terribly comforting really.

“We won’t know the full economic consequences for a very long time,” he said. “The overwhelming opportunity for Brexit is over the next 50 years.”

At least 50 years according to JRM.

I advise on the laws so probably a fair bit of work i.e. more money. If we have a recession that usually means more litigation work.

I remember the first referendum in the 1970s and the UK before we joined (I voted Remain this time and was too young to vote in the first referendum when we voted to stay in).

I give quite a lot of technical legal advice on exports and imports so there will be some fascinating and quite complex legal effects.

MaudBaileysGreenTurban I think it will be ok in a years time. Change is stressful but we’ll be fine!

• The end of the Conservative party as an electoral force.

• a modern day ‘Munch’s Scream’, - with millions of baffled young people thinking wtaf did you do.

• lots and lots of work for top tier law and accounting firms to make more millions.

I work for the NHS. There are already starting to be shortages in medication.

Realistically in the short term, we will see an increase in deaths from diabetes, anaphylaxis, and mental health related conditions due to problems in supply of insulin, epi-pens and anti depressants. There will be food shortages as we import 70% of our food, and even the food that doesn’t come from the EU tends to travel through it to get to us. House prices will fall drastically but less people will be able to get on the property ladder as there will be more people stuck in negative equity.

In the medium term, Scottish independence, the dismantling and privatisation of the NHS, with catastrophic consequences for those who can’t afford private healthcare, economic depression, mass unemployment due to reduced investment.

Long term, a sad, poor and depressed shit show.

I’m worried about the NHS and have been looking in to how much private healthcare/insurance is. in the grand scheme of things if you haven’t got your health you have nothing & if it does gets privatised god forbid my children, husband, myself or anyone really trying to afford certain treatments.

"I am sick of hearing/seeing/reading it."

Don't worry: in a few short months' time, you'll get to live it

had our stupid government sorted this out when it was first due to be sorted we'd be further into the adjustment and not having all this wailing and moaning about the world ending.

privatisation of the NHS, with catastrophic consequences for those who can’t afford private healthcare

I think this is almost a certainty now. It's not if, but when. Just a quick google about medical care in the USA should be enough to leave people having sleepless nights.

Our public services will become more expensive. I buy stuff for a government department and the need for goods is going nowhere - but as we generally go for lowest cost, things generally come from overseas. If the pound is devalued further, then prices go up. If we try to source from the UK prices go up. Either way, the costs are met by the public purse.

@watersheep There was a Morgan Spurlock documentary where he and his girlfriend spent 30 days living on the breadline and the speed at which medical care plunged them into a spiral of debt was terrifying.

😂😂 Merry Berry.

You just missed the part where those of us with European blood will start to fall apart and loose limbs with the most European genes as we extricate. no longer being... Part of the eu.

FenellaMaxwell I'll have to check it out. It's really is terrifying how expensive even the simplest medical procedures can be. People already complain enough about prescription charges... they really have no idea.

The UK looking inwards rather than outwards
turning its back on the rest of the world

and the rest of the world shrugging their shoulders and getting on with it