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

[Bunnyfuller]

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?

Absolutely nothing. So very many financial / educational / practical / cultural / social disadvantages, and emotional sadnesses.

Maybe create this thread on gransnet too as I think a higher proportion of the oldies voted leave...?

Benefits? Nigel Farage has fucked off into obscurity. That's about all I can think of.

I do enjoy the marches, really lovely friendly atmosphere, I've made some new friends.

marchforrejoin.co.uk/

All the smug self important nitwits who used to come on here to explain (with zero actual detail) how "remoaners" were talking their country down and "not respecting" leave voters legitimate views and that we would "thrive" outside the evil EU have gone VERY quiet. So that's a benefit.

There hasn't been a single benefit.

Er just negatives for me!

What could the positives possibly be on a personal level?

At the moment we’re in France on holiday and due to Brexit now have to pay to data roam on phone (£2 a day!!) and can’t watch things on Sky Go/Prime etc. Little things but very annoying and feels so backwards.

Nothing, I feel like I’m floating on a suppurating arsehole on a sea of literal, I mean literal sewage.

This!!!

Duty free between ROI and the UK
The Holyhead booze cruise is back in full swing

A company who relocated from the UK to Dublin hired my husband, gave him a pay rise and great comps

more direct ferrys to mainland Europe no more land bridge messing

I meant I had an actual tangible reason to pin on why I didn't like my (now ex) in laws.

They voted to leave and it meant I finally heard them vocalise all the vitriol they'd only previously hinted at.

Didn't like them before. Couldn't stand then after that.

To be fair, I think it was mentioned, as not being a problem, and part of getting the right deal. Only we didn't get a deal.
I know I bloody mentioned it all the time, it 's not like this wasn't predictable.

I've got one. The removal of the bureaucratic shitshow that was the Common Agricultural Policy and the ability to replace it with something that is actually relevant to and meets the needs of our country without the undue influence of niche groups across Europe. I get that people will have opinions about the relative benefits of the replacement schemes but I was involved in the administration of subsidy payments and the EU audit process. Fuck me, the bureaucracy, the nit picking and the absolute waste of money was maddening.

On balance I would have preferred to stay in the EU and there have certainly been many disadvantages to leaving. But the blinkered refusal to see any benefits whatsoever is just ignorant. Of course there are.

I think we all know, as if many of us needed proof, that brexit was, is and always will be a fucking stupid idea.

Er, did you miss the news that he's calling for "Brexit 2.0" ?

www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1656179/nigel-farage-brexit-tories-general-election-migrant-channel-crossings

Nigel Farage calls for 'Brexit 2.0' as he issues dire warning to Tories over election

None. It is a shitshow.

Unfortunately, at the next election, any idea or mention of Brexit being a shit show will be heavily disguised by blaming it on lots of other things.

Agree re the vaccines - a big fat Johnson fib there. And Ukraine? Well that's all gone quiet now that Johnson has been turfed out by his own party.. Hasn't been in touch or popping over to Kyiv so much in recent weeks, has he?

I’m not as disappointed that moving nearer to the coast isn’t a possibility for a good while. Nor am I disappointed I won’t be able to afford holidays much either at U.K. coast or lakes, or abroad even with the bigger queues.
Though that is outweighed really by the disappointment of what is happening to our seas and rivers, and the real disappointment my grandkids and their generation will not have the opportunities of FOM.
I wish the impacts of Brexit weren’t continually hidden by gov’t - that could even help leavers, as openness about issues could help reduce the blame on brexit where it is (unusually!) not the problem, or just a part of it. Still I’m not holding my breath for honesty on anything from them.

I'm pretty sure he's lined up for having a substantial influence on the next PM and what follows from that. So all more shit than we can imagine.

Sovereignty!! You can't put a price on it.

Makes no sense to me either.

Zilch

and my cat had to go for six months without her favoutite cat food.

But are people still listening @SerendipityJane ? God I hope not.

I hate what I'm about to say, but here it is: I feel I've been given a license to care far less about my fellow man than I used to.

I feel I don't have to care about you anything like I might have, and did, 5-10 years ago, because so many of you voted Brexit, then Tory.

My erstwhile Socialism has morphed into 'you don't care about you; why should I?'

I feel way less conflicted when I go 'fuck you'. I now put my immediate family's interests first, with little regard for 'the bigger picture'. And we, as a family, will survive 'this'.

Sorry, (a bit). But I feel an awful lot of people need the spanking that's coming their way in order to grow up.

Stop behaving like the drunken Anglo-Saxon serfs you're being taken as.

My pharmacist friend was given a 15% pay rise recently - previously she blamed wage stagnation in her profession on EU immigration.

My neighbour seems keen to try VAT-free shopping:

refund.globalblue.com/web/faces/public/exo/Brexit_LP?utm_source=globalblue&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=tfs_article

www.eurotunnel.com/uk/tax-free-shopping/

My local (mini) high street is buzzing with 'cafe culture' - three upmarket cafes/restaurants have opened up in the last year.

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

Fewer Irish/EU lorries on British roads will be seen as a positive by many - especially if they were just 'passing through' before.

If you compare how long it took the UK to administer both doses we were really not that much faster than anyone else in Europe.

We clearly were faster vaccinating vulnerable groups which is why we dropped down the deaths per population table. Consequently we were able to open up our economy faster than many EU countries.