To think most Brexiteers must now regret their vote?

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If you voted Brexit, do you feel like you have been able to "Take Back Control?" If so, where? Can anyone state one positive change since Brexit - I would genuinely like to hear at least something. Anything?

YANBU - I voted Brexit but now regret it
YABU - I voted Brexit and can see a benefit

a lot of them have forgotten about it already, and won't necessarily connect some of the impacts of Brexit with their vote.

Yes, this. My Brexit-voting mother just sees it as something that happened in the past and has no sense that anything happening now is connected to it. A complete lack of understanding of what Brexit was/is.

As this thread shows, even lots of remainers don’t want to talk about it anymore. It’s like we all have to repress our knowledge of it and pretend all is well and that we haven’t dealt ourselves a dreadful blow (see the Labour Party). I don’t think there’s any hope of any kind of attempt to improve things for decades, as that would involve some honesty.

Not this shite again!
Ok for the 100th time no I do not

One good reason my mil is 92 and had a jab during the time the EU were bickering and trying to ensure they and in particular the richest countries in the EU got vacations. She got covid shortly after and was ill but ok.

The only positive about Brexit I can think of is the UKIP and allied Brexiteers not being in the European Parliament.

I voted Remain. No-one I know who supported Brexit has yet admitted it was the greatest economic mistake this country has made in decades.

We ordered our jabs before leaving the EU!!

Christ it's people like you that really show how ignorant those that voted for brexit are

The jabs aren't a brexit highlight

Being in the EU made no difference to use ordering in supplies

There is no need for people to be defensive and angry.

Yes there are other threads, but nobody can ever think of a positive.

If you can think of a positive, just explain it.

Try reading them again, carefully, and with an open mind.

Remember that a reason you don’t agree with, is still a reason and just because you have said you don’t agree with doesn’t make the reason invalid.

Because there are no positives and you know it. Asking the question again won’t change that. It will entrench the division though which is pointless and weakens us all. Move beyond it now.

Yes and I answered as a person who regretted and can't be arsed replying again to this thread .

There are no stated positives to agree or disagree with, Newrumpus. Just attempted diversions to other threads, which in turn, are further attempts at diversion. We're six years on now, so I was wondering if anyone might be able to mention something retrospectively.

Brexit positive - Construction workers now being better paid and having more employment opportunities now the Labour Market isn't flooded with cheap labour from Eastern Europe.

Just based on my experience of course.

Agreed.

We are no longer associated with the EU immigration policy, fortress Europe and dodgy attempts to keep the wrong type of immigrants out.

That’s great for some construction workers (but could have been sorted by UK having decent labour laws and the Tories not smashing the unions rather than leaving the EU) but the overall picture of labour shortages in so many other vital sectors to the economy is awful.

Thankyou for mentioning a positive from your perspective WonkasBooboofixer.

Have builder's wages really gone up though? We're having an extension building and every quote we had was from East European builders / companies. The men's wages are the same, but the cost of materials has gone up since Brexit and this is just passed in to the consumer.

We're in London though. Maybe it's different elsewhere.

For the most part people are defensive and struggle to admit when they were wrong. For this reason I doubt many see it that way. The same with those who voted for Boris. They also often reply with ‘well it would have been so much worse with Corbyn’.
Seriously there is no hope so don’t bother.

I haven't voted as I voted Remain. When I was listening to the Budget yesterday re the bankers bonuses and the lowering of the higher rate tax the thought that struck me was that the move of banks and headquarters of companies from the UK due to Brexit is behind reduction in taxes and they want to encourage the service industry and companies back to Britain. I'm waiting to hear what the Rees Mogg explanation is😂

I think you'd have to look at how people voted, and why. There are several distinct groups, and reasons for voting. See here:

lordashcroftpolls.com/2019/03/a-reminder-of-how-britain-voted-in-the-eu-referendum-and-why/

I'd imagine some people would have changed their opinion, some might feel vindicated.

Actually it was EU rules which we were still following that enabled the UK to approve AZ first, we then had a brilliant roll out, unfortunately AZ proved to have some side effects, so the UK stopped using AZ on younger age groups but was behind the curve on ordering Pfizer etc & couldn't access EU stocks.

So EU caught up as our vaccine roll out faltered.

note the UK isn't using much AZ now, its simply no longer effective against Omicron and AZ isn't developing a 2 pronged vaccine as Pfizer Moderna etc are.

Johnson simply lied.

But we've always had complete control over our own non-EU immigration. We could let in absolutely anyone we wanted. If we didn't, it's because voters voted for parties with restrictive immigration policies- nothing to do with the EU.

That isn’t what I meant

What did you mean then?

Yep hubby's been a builder for 30 years and every day he's getting calls about jobs rates on agency have shot up to £23PH from lows of £11 in 2010 to 15ish. Brother is an infrastructure engineer and he's the same, yes theres a labour shortage but the upside to that is it pushes wages up for everyone else. My employer has to pay over minimum wage to attract employees and anything that puts money into the hands of the lower earning sections of society can only be a good thing with the cost of living increases affecting those the hardest

As I said, that we are no longer part of the EU therefore we are not associated with their practices.

Blimey! so you think that an effectively unelected woman from one country is justified in interfering democratic vote of another country.

Glad we are out of that mess.