To think no one can name a single positive benefit of Brexit

[measuringmylifeincoffeespoons]

Just that really. I'm genuinely curious. There seems to be increasing coverage and evidence of the harm and cost of Brexit. Can anyone point to a positive benefit?

The vaccine that has quietly disappeared without trace because it wasn't safe due to undertesting?

The people that voted for racist reasons can sleep better at night without all those ghastly foreigners taking British jobs and British benefits for British people.

Personally I cannot see a single reason brexit would be viewed as a positive.

I think independence does give some protection from the soaring inflation spreading across the EU where some areas are double our rate. We were also less affected by EU dependence on Russia and were able to provide far more help to Ukraine. Not forgetting the vaccine programme of course because whether you look to the earlier regulations or not we were not constrained by cross-EU laws.

Disclaimer - I voted remain, was very unhappy with the result at the time, don't really care any more and have moved on, am bored with the nutty FBPE crowd and would spoil my ballot if there was another vote.

Cheap labour impacted badly on the earning power of people in poorer communities. Now their situation is improving. Your ideology (which appears very snobby btw) doesn't trump feeding their kids.

They tried but no go…

www.itv.com/news/2019-06-07/boris-johnson-wins-court-challenge-over-claims-he-lied-about-brexit-delivering-350m-for-the-nhs

Absolutely jack shit. Nowt, Nada, Zilch, Zero.

Shittiest decision of all time.

Cheapskate ,exploitative employers are finding they can't get a beverending supplier of cheap migrant labour.Thats the big win

One negative I can see is that people who voted leave now don't feel like they can talk openly about it without getting bullied!!!

But that had bugger all to do with Brexit. The fact Johnson et al try and claim it shows how utter fucked up Brexit is.

Yaaas!!!
An accelerated path to a United Ireland 🇮🇪

Really? Who do you know that does this

I get to use my new green passport.
Apart from that zilch.

Nope none. I was and still an a big remainer as I believed it was in our economic interest to stay in.

Fast forward to today, the country is circling the toilet bowl economically. Now I’m expected to endure cuts to services. The roads are full of pot holes, more crime, can’t find a policemen, the hospitals are filthy.

The Leavers are still on Facebook blaming all of their ills on people in dinghy’s. The level of stupidity in this country is insane. And the idiots want me, a net tax contributor, to pay more and more for their stupidity.

Even Labour still supports Brexit to keep Kier’s precious Red Wall people happy as they are the only people who matter. No plans to invest in state schools. No, the plan is to make private schools fees higher so they become even more elite and thousands of private’s school kids enter the state system. The next grand plan will probably be to prevent people leaving anything to their kids. Apparently the middle class net tax contributors must be continually punished even though they don’t tend to vote for economic suicide.

What’s the point of trying to achieve anything in this country? I think the next stage of Brexit will be a 1970s flight of tax contributors like myself who were strongly against austerity, Brexit etc and resent paying more for others stupidity whilst watching the country crumble.

I voted remain. But there is a resurgence of right wing politics in Europe. Also there seems to be anti British sentiment especially in France. So I don't know what to think now.

Does what? Has racist thoughts? No idea, I can’t read people’s minds, but looking at the most popular political parties over the last decade and the content of the most popular news and media, I’d say there’s an increasing number of people on board with it.

@jetadore

Because everyone knows, deep down, that certain races and cultures are objectively better and now we’re finally creating a country where there’s nothing wrong with thinking that or saying that out loud.

This is a joke, right?

What is the point of threads like this? There was another one the same only a week or two ago. Brexit happened, get over it.

Your post mentioned people saying it out loud so no mind reading required but maybe not that then…

Re media maybe so, although possibly not just U.K. given reported changes on Twitter recently and other moves to right in other countries. So not just Brexit as a cause.

Oh no, don’t get me wrong, at my workplace we love to sit around with the Sun and Daily Mail, some of us sharing some very forthright opinions on what we’re reading about “people of colour”.

It’s hard to tell these days.

Well I’ll take this as a joke I suppose

Cheap labour are you taking the piss

round here we’ve no labour thanks to Brexit businesses having to close or run reduced hours cause we can’t get employees.

Brexit is still happening?

The slow descent of the Tory party into the irrelevance they feared and capitulated to the fascists to avoid. Thus acting as an paradigm of the saying about those who sacrifice liberty for security will have neither.

There is a world of difference between being a "broad church" and hanging a sign up saying "racists, misogynists and cunts welcome". As they are slowly discovering.

Brexit was bought with a dud cheque. Anyone (not dim) surprised it bounced ?