To ask what impacts of brexit you have seen in your day to day life?

[Bregxit]

Any whether good or bad
Yabu-yes I have
Yanbu-no I haven’t

Perhaps Brexit will be an incentive to become more productive and inventive? More self sufficient?

We had decades to do all this before 1973 or the advent of the SM in '93.

We didn't then, why would we now in a far more competitive world?

The UK can't simply make stuff other firms already do, there are patents etc to work around.

We'd have to invent different and better products.

Yes lord forbid we should become more self sufficient as a country. We might actually have to start making and growing more things.
Where do tea and coffee grow in the UK?
What veg is being picked at the moment in the UK?
Do you eat only fish caught in UK waters ?

And hope to goodness that the French do not turn off our power supply
or the Norwegians turn off our gas

No man is an island

Self sufficient that’s fucking hilarious

We haven't been self sufficient for centuries! A futile quest

Vaccinated.

And more people vaccinated in the UK than the whole of the EU put together.

I have seen the holidays I have taken since 2016 cost more, because of the impact on the pound.

Dh is self employed. Costs of raw materials for his business (purchased in the UK but obviously ultimately come from somewhere else) have increased by 1/3. It’s quite a big dent in profits. We foresaw this way back when when everyone was like, ooh, freedom, won’t it be great for business? It’s going to mean prices will need to go up unless things even out in the next couple of months.

I live in NI and I am desperately worried about what comes next here. I live in a Republican area and my partner lives in a VERY unionist area. He doesn't want me visiting there at the moment and says the graffiti is grim and the local UDA and UVF are out recruiting young ones for "the fight". Brexit is going to lead to so much trouble here, especially with the reunification talk. Its really agitating some groups a lot.

@ZestyDragon

I live in NI and I am desperately worried about what comes next here. I live in a Republican area and my partner lives in a VERY unionist area. He doesn't want me visiting there at the moment and says the graffiti is grim and the local UDA and UVF are out recruiting young ones for "the fight". Brexit is going to lead to so much trouble here, especially with the reunification talk. Its really agitating some groups a lot.

^^^ This.

People in GB were insulated from life in NI before the GFA.

@ZestyDragon

I live in NI and I am desperately worried about what comes next here. I live in a Republican area and my partner lives in a VERY unionist area. He doesn't want me visiting there at the moment and says the graffiti is grim and the local UDA and UVF are out recruiting young ones for "the fight". Brexit is going to lead to so much trouble here, especially with the reunification talk. Its really agitating some groups a lot.

That's very worrying.

It affects my line of work as we are now deemed as a third country I am now required to take exams to prove that I am competent to do my job in Belgium as I work with international clients.
My clients now have to request green cards if driving a vehicle within Europe. I've also had clients try and claim for loss of revenue caused by delays at the border so in my professional life it is a pain in the arse!
Personal life relatively unaffected.

@ZestyDragon

I live in NI and I am desperately worried about what comes next here. I live in a Republican area and my partner lives in a VERY unionist area. He doesn't want me visiting there at the moment and says the graffiti is grim and the local UDA and UVF are out recruiting young ones for "the fight". Brexit is going to lead to so much trouble here, especially with the reunification talk. Its really agitating some groups a lot.

And our local politicians are showing zero leadership as usual. Poots pulling staff from the port was a stunt.

Couldn’t buy a few things in the supermarket last week to think that is hardship just shows how utterly spoilt we are

I feel for those who’s lives are highly impacted

Personally I don’t know anyone apart from a few drama lamas who think they shall never be able to travel in Europe again

@OhWhyNot

Couldn’t buy a few things in the supermarket last week to think that is hardship just shows how utterly spoilt we are

I feel for those who’s lives are highly impacted

Personally I don’t know anyone apart from a few drama lamas who think they shall never be able to travel in Europe again

“Travelling” in Europe is very different from living / working / studying in Europe.

SabrinaThwaite or really well I never knew that

I have British friends living in Europe

Supermarkets are padding now. Instead of two rows of oranges there are 6, and dozens of rows of tomatoes. Shelves are barer though well disguised. My local Tesco had about 12 rows of printer ink its stationary aisle the other day to disguise the fact that there wasn’t a lot e,she available. Costs have obviously increased. But we won’t really know the impact until Covid has lifted and we see the real impact on the economy. Two friends had just shut down their businesses. They could probably have coped with Brexit or Covid, but not both.

I moved to the EU to avoid losing my EU citizenship so I'm probably more affected than most I suppose.
Luckily my bank still allows me to keep my account, not like some people who've been told it's not possible leaving them in the shit.
Can't buy things from most UK sites at the moment.

My DH has been made redundant. He worked in banking (he's a minion, not a super rich banker) and banks no longer have an incentive to stay here.
Three very good friends have moved overseas over the last couple of years as they work for EU institutions no longer based in the UK. They are EU citizens, so will never move back to the UK, even though before Brexit they had planned to stay in the UK for good.
I work in the NHS. Recruitment is becoming more challenging.

Oh I know there is a cardboard issue but I think that’s world wide isn’t it not Brexit related.

@Ijustknowitstimetogo

At this rate I can see people in the UK being forced to buy from other people in the UK. That will be awful won't it.

Yes lord forbid we should become more self sufficient as a country. We might actually have to start making and growing more things.

Why are people so adamant that we can be more self sufficient? The world just doesn't work like that anymore. It hasn't done for a long time, and won't go back to that just because we've decided do leave the EU.

@Alwaysandforeverhere

Oh I know there is a cardboard issue but I think that’s world wide isn’t it not Brexit related.

No. ONLY the UK has changed its taxation agreement with its largest trading partners in the last few weeks

I haven't noticed any changes, good or bad.

My sister lost her job.
Have had three deliveries from abroad turned back, including medicine for DH.
More expansive shopping.

Oh, and having to bloody listen to the pointless waste of time for four bloody years to the point where I would happily jump off a cliff.

I feel very sorry for normal Europeans that have been basically told their life is secondary to that of the EU Commission What are you talking about? Where I’m sitting - in a country that has kept its schools open, most of its shops and where we’ll be going away on holiday next week - people are looking across the channel and wondering how on earth Britain - a country that used to be the envy of the rest of Europe having managed to negotiate itself an opt out of the Euro, Schengen and anything else it didn’t want to be involved in - has got itself into such a mess. The idea that the EU would have in some way dictated its vaccination programme is laughable. Johnson is no doubt hoping you’ll be persuaded to believe this in the same way he persuaded the fishing industry to believe it would be better off out of the EU. COVID is a convenient smokescreen for the destruction he and his cronies have wrought with Brexit .

No way could I bear to see deaths piling up and the destruction of our economy just so the EU commission could prove their point.

Precisely. Far better to have deaths piling up due to the spectacular incompetence of our government.