The damage caused by Brexit will be studied in the future by the next generations; how could a country do something so stupid when it would clearly lead to a worse quality of life. There were never any benefits and those paying attention understood this. And here we are, with stock shortages of all manner piling up and various industries grinding to a halt.
It was pure populism, simple answers to complex problems. Simple answers for people who don’t want to think too hard.
What is staggering is that it’s supporters don’t seem to care that there are no actual benefits, and a whole heap of downsides. The whole thing has cost us many billions, and all it’s actually achieved is to make us all poorer.
It’s now “oh it won’t be that bad” or “we’re not going to starve”.
The effects will be a death by a thousand cuts, slowly boiling a frog. We’re currently at the it’s-getting-a-bit-warm stage, but given time things will get worse- because there’s no mechanism for things getting better. A trade deal with Aus will do nothing in real terms for our economy.
You reap what you sow. Or in this case we all reap what an actually fairly small proportion of the country sowed, and many of them are now dead. So no op, yanbu.