[quote ImaRetriever]@patkinney I agree.
There will be more short term pain for long term gain, hopefully.
It is impossible to see the long term advantages for regaining the right to govern ourselves again.
Of course there will be hickups as we take back control of our trade which we have outsourced to the EU for decades. It's a colossal job to undertake, even the administrative structures that need putting into place to steam ahead with that change.
Regulations that were put in place by the EU for the advantage of large corperations that monopolised the markets for years making it impossible for small and medium sized buisnesses to grow are going to be very upset about these changes, as we can see with BP.
Free trade will be scary to impliment.
Whoever you voted for during Brexit we have now left and choose not to be governed by an unelected group of people who in many peoples eyes were becoming evermore corupt. However much the remainers wish to call the leavers racist is rediculous. Imigration will not change, there will always be large immigration but now we have the choice of who we allow in our borders to work, we want to be inclusive of all the world.
We can get the best of the best if we wish, not just cheap labour to satify large corperations with their foothold over our economy.
There will be many benefits to young generations if buisneses are allowed to move to Britain and restrictions are lifted. It's going to take years to change this view of training and teaching our future generations the trades and skills needed instead of pushing everybody into universities or at the opposite end of the scale doing jobs that can never be classed as having a living wage in Britain and topped up with tax credits.
Hopefully new trades and skills through a stronger more diverse economy will give future generations the confidence and self esteem to create fewer divisions in our society, being in a worthwhile job helps.
All in all this will take time, to make, find and re new trade agreements with new countries at the same time building stronger links with the rest of the world.
This is global and I think in years to come we will wonder why we were so insular and restricted into thinking we could only survive within the EU.
I don't look at Brexiteers as fools who don't like Europeans rather I look at the British remainers who go full into protectionism mode to keep the status quo, whist teaching the young that it is in their best interest to remain in Europe.
Brexiters love Europeans, they are our neighbours, we just dont want them to be our landlords.
PS. I would let the cat have dog food this one time but I doubt it will eat it, cats have more taste.
I wait for the onslaught.[/quote]
Businesses don't want to move back to Britain though. While Brexit voters may think we are the centre of the world, the rest of the world sees a little island stuck panic buying petrol, slagging off foreigners, short on heating, with loads of big corps going bust or moving overseas for better profits. Of course businesses are 'allowed' to come over here but doubt may would want to. Honest to god I'm embarrassed sometimes about the state of where we are at.