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Original poster

To ask for the tangible benefits to you from Brexit, whichever way you voted

343 replies

Bunnyfuller · 22/08/2022 20:35

I genuinely want to know, what’s improved? Specific to you/your family?

is Brexit as it is what you thought it would be, or if you voted Remain, has it been more positive than you expected?

anyone calling it ‘goady thread’ is possibly saying Brexit isn’t going that well?

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Hardbackwriter · 22/08/2022 20:58

I get the slight satisfaction of having been absolutely right when I thought leaving was a mad thing to do? I'd happily swap my smugness for some actual upsides, though...

FourChimneys · 22/08/2022 20:58

No benefits to my family whatsoever. It has affected the careers of one of my adult DC and their partner very badly indeed.

The cost of some materials I use in my business has gone up considerably as they are imported from the EU.

A good friend left the UK shortly after the referendum to go back to her home country. I miss our regular coffees.

A fruit farm near me had to let acres rot this year. No EU pickers and no British people want the work.

Will watch this thread with interest to see all the positives for other people.

NotMyDayJob · 22/08/2022 21:01

I realised I was living in an area that had voted 70%+ leave so I sold up, but only really broke even on the sale. The house I then bought made me a big profit when I had to sell up a couple of years later (just before the pandemic). So that benefited me I guess

Blossomtoes · 22/08/2022 21:02

Hardbackwriter · 22/08/2022 20:58

I get the slight satisfaction of having been absolutely right when I thought leaving was a mad thing to do? I'd happily swap my smugness for some actual upsides, though...

Same. I’d have been delighted to have been proved wrong. Unfortunately it’s far worse than my most pessimistic imaginings.

Thedungeondragon · 22/08/2022 21:05

There is some small perverse satisfaction in being able to say "told you so" as it all turns to shit as predicted. That is the nearest to a benefit I can come up with.

FinallyHere · 22/08/2022 21:06

Ireland has loads more ferry routes to mainland Europe, avoiding the 'land bridge' through the UK.

North / South trade has increased significantly within Ireland.

lljkk · 22/08/2022 21:06

I did figure one out a year or 2 ago. Forget what it was, now.

user1471453601 · 22/08/2022 21:07

Tim whatshisfuckingname (Wetherspoons owner) is struggling for staff and speaking about it as loudly as he spoke about the benefits of brexit.

I do like to see a chicken come home to roost.

Apart from that it's been the unmitigated disaster I thought it would be. The reason Why no body, nobody, talked about the impact on the Good Friday Agreement in 2006, escapes me

QueenofLouisiana · 22/08/2022 21:07

I had an extra hour queuing at Dutch passport control as I arrived at Hook of Holland, so I could really admire the architecture of the port buildings. Same at Harwich coming home. So, that was nice.

LampLighter414 · 22/08/2022 21:08

Only a matter of time before someone says that they know of a number of Europeans who have decided to move back to their home countries or elsewhere in Europe and see it as a benefit

Toosadtocomprehend · 22/08/2022 21:09

NorthFaceofthelaundrypile · 22/08/2022 20:40

Not sure if class it as a benefit, but I do quite like the extra stamps in my passport!
The only plus point I’ve yet encountered.

This😂

Intransigentcat · 22/08/2022 21:10

I mean I do like collecting the extra stamps in my passport.......

Yep that's it. That's all I can think of.

CookieCoo · 22/08/2022 21:11

Absolutely no benefit. I’m angry with my “leaver” dad and his ridiculous family. They hate the French and believed that damn bus slogan!! Idiots.

xxcatcatcatxx · 22/08/2022 21:12

Voted to leave and honestly have noticed absolutely no change in lifestyle either way💕

Unrelated as I know people love to hate on Brexiteers but I kind of voted knowing as I’m just sick of making world decisions and being important and hoped life would just kind of continue.

I think as a “main player” country we’re quite ego-focused on us and look down on other countries but they just get on with it so figured that would be a good existence to join the just get on with it club. Just wanted to be more of a bit part in the world xxx

MrsAvocet · 22/08/2022 21:13

Well my DH's workload has more or less doubled as he now has to make sure his company is compliant with both British and European legislation.No extra pay, but he is working really long hours so I'm getting loads more time for doing my hobbies on my own - does that count?

Theimpossiblegirl · 22/08/2022 21:14

Cheap airport booze.
It's not worth everything we've lost.
And no, I didn't vote for this shit show.

MnPrem · 22/08/2022 21:14

My Dd AND my 58 year old aunt got a summer job in 2 days because no competition!

BeanieTeen · 22/08/2022 21:14

Nothing so far.

There is some small perverse satisfaction in being able to say "told you so" as it all turns to shit as predicted. That is the nearest to a benefit I can come up with.

I find no satisfaction in it unfortunately. I’d love to be proven wrong in predicting it would all be a complete pissing in your own shoes activity.

I wonder how other EU countries feel about it? Do they miss us? Has us leaving affected them much?

Hardbackwriter · 22/08/2022 21:16

Intransigentcat · 22/08/2022 21:10

I mean I do like collecting the extra stamps in my passport.......

Yep that's it. That's all I can think of.

I quite like the stamps, but don't like how long it takes to get one!

I also have one of the 'blue' passports that were apparently so important to people and I genuinely can't begin to fathom why.

Intransigentcat · 22/08/2022 21:17

No hang on, an American friend who I love dearly used to have to queue endlessly when we would meet up in various European cities to get through passport control, whereas I would breeze through and wait with a very mild degree of impatience, keen to get on with having both wine and fun.

Now I have to queue too so Brexit has allowed me to walk a mile in her shoes (probably literally in those snaking airport queues).

jinglejanglemorning · 22/08/2022 21:18

Not a single one. I predicted it would be awful but I confess that even as a diehard remainer I didn't imagine it would be quite this bad. Project Fear seems to have turned out to be a best case scenario.

I get a small amount of satisfaction from the fact that my kids and I now have dual nationality with an EU country, so my kids will have the same opportunities to work and study in the EU if they decide to, without the need for visas. I feel sad for those who would like to do that and can't- the young have lost so much.

gegs73 · 22/08/2022 21:19

My teenage DSs can get part-time jobs really easily as every single local shop/bar/restaurant is recruiting as most European workers left. Wages also seem to have risen for these people by about £2 an hour, some jobs more.

Other than that absolute s* show. I did not vote for Brexit.

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Bunnyfuller · 22/08/2022 21:20

I’m not a journo, I’m even less JRM!

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NorthFaceofthelaundrypile · 22/08/2022 20:40

Not sure if class it as a benefit, but I do quite like the extra stamps in my passport!
The only plus point I’ve yet encountered.

Also like the stamps. Spend a lot of time queuing for them tho.

Hoppinggreen · 22/08/2022 21:21

jinglejanglemorning · 22/08/2022 21:18

Not a single one. I predicted it would be awful but I confess that even as a diehard remainer I didn't imagine it would be quite this bad. Project Fear seems to have turned out to be a best case scenario.

I get a small amount of satisfaction from the fact that my kids and I now have dual nationality with an EU country, so my kids will have the same opportunities to work and study in the EU if they decide to, without the need for visas. I feel sad for those who would like to do that and can't- the young have lost so much.

Well I suppose our DC now have an advantage over British kids with only British passports so that’s something