please can you tell me any benefits of brexit

[battenburg100]

Hi everyone
I am desperate to find any advantages to brexit as I can't find any.
I am willing to hear of any success stories.

Travel abroad has become much harder - the issue with any extra months on a 10 year passport and the right number of months left on the passport - think 3 or 6 months.

Hiring a car abroad is harder - so much more extra paper work.

Much harder to live abroad due to the demand of certain amount in a bank account.

My sister who lives in Spain has had alot of barriers due to Brexit, in relation to coming back to living in the Uk and even her driving licence, in Spain now is not transferable - which wasnt the case before brexit.

I also find that travel abroad is even harder than ever - especially with this upcoming October when we have the implementation of the new ETIAS and the visa issue for whatever country we want to visit.

Has anything good from Brexit? Am I missing something?

That's interesting. Reading this in 2024 brings the following conclusions:

• some of these points are insignificant
• some were wishful thinking/intentions that didn't materialise and they will not
• none resulted in any improvement to our lives in real terms

If we were to create an opposite list of actual disadvantages, this would be a much more meaningful and significant list and a true illustration of just how ludicrous the whole idea was. It lined up certain Tory pockets thanks to the great brainwashed (aka the pseudo-intellectuals and pseudo-patriots) though, and that's all that matters.

Brexit has caused the bureaucracy

I only have 1 - alcohol is cheap when buying it in the airport travelling to Europe now as now duty free. But that in comparison to all the costs isn't worth it.
My eldest would say they get a stamp in their passports which makes them happy.

Not a single goddamned benefit at all. Just endless shit that 52% of the population voted for in a deranged act of self-harm.

No benefits whatsoever.

Just a crazed act of self-destruction.

Whilst this Government were being generally useless they put the cherry on the cake by making no effort whatsoever to exploit the potential benefits of Brexit. I no longer believe in democracy, it was clear that the men in grey suits wanted to remain, the remnants of democracy pulled out a surprise result everything which went on after was an horrific pantomime.
I don’t know where we are now, there seems no appetite to grasp our freedoms and exploit them and so all we are left with are the negative aspects you mention. It’s an absolute shit show. 😔

And yet people keep voting in these ne'er do wells...

Ah, no. The issues mentioned are the EU treating the UK as a third country as it is no longer in the EU. Why would you expect the EU to treat UK citizens any differently to citizens of any other third country?

Some drugs are now not even approved in the UK. Not talking about NICE approval, there just isn't a licence whereas before we would always at least have everything approved as part of the EU licence. This is a pretty big disadvantage imo....

You mean like being on the top of the list for a magical deal with the USA???

Where is it? Is it all the fault of the EU?

YABU to not post this in its own topic.

Reckon it was all worth it for this hey. 🙄

Exactly. This attitude always surprises me.

At least we’ve got some sort of cheese trade deal with Japan 👍

@ArchaeoSpy

on your point 4 and part of your point 1 while in the EU we had the Dublin Agreement which, I think, meant that the first safe EU country a attempted migrant came to, was the country where they must claim asylum. As I understand it, so called illegal migration seems to have increased.

on your point 2, most other countries, not unnaturally, have opted to have preferential trade agreements with a bigger trading block that us.

on your point 3, freedom to regulate appears to mean we can now pump as much shit (literally) into our waterways.

Your item 5 appears to have led to a decrease in our health service and our schools.

Yes. Cheap booze & fags. Duty free purchases have become available again for UK nationals travelling to & from the EU.

Apart from that, Brexit has been a disaster for the U.K. and has diminished & weakened the EU.

The annoying thing is, on a 72% turnout it was actually only about 37.5% of the voting population who voted for the chaos it has caused. 😕

No benefits whatsoever but it did help me persuade my dh to move to the EU. So thanks for that.

I would really like to hear your opinion on the benefits of Brexit and what improvements regaining our sovereignty has brought.

Which just goes to show that, in a democracy, people who can’t be bothered to get off their arses to go out & vote can’t really complain about the result. A lesson there, perhaps, in election year….

Cos loads of us are always hanging round airports stocking up on cheap fags and booze

It’s an almost impossible task to isolate EU Exit specific impacts from non EU exit impacts (including those from the global economic shocks from
Covid 19, the invasion of Ukraine and other global shocks) on the UK economy since January 2020 . It would be interesting to understand how the UK economy has fared against the other main European economies such as France and
Germany in the past four years, and what can be attributed to any EU Exit specific advantages.

In asking the original question re any potential benefits realised by EU Exit, I suppose it’s important to be honest about the motivations for the 52% of those who voted to leave the EU. Much of the motivation wasn’t about short term gain but a desire for longer term sovereignty gain away from an EU bureaucracy that many people see
as massively undemocratic and ridiculously inefficient.

Not just airports. You can get them on the ferries, too…

None...

The date we left we have not organised a single trade deal.
We are now no longer a member of Europol so information from Europe cannot be shared with us this making us more vulnerable to terrorism.
We no longer have to stick to EU regulations but we will otherwise we won't be able to sell to the EU
Most EU laws still apply in this country as they are retained or assimilated into our law
No deals were made re fishing so eu countries can still fish in our waters but we can't fish in ours.
Everyone says we have more sovereignty but this depends on your definition. We are now trying to negotiate from a significantly weakened position. When countries such as America are going to negotiate, they are going to negotiate with the EU before us.
Terrible decision.

looking forward to the EUSTA kicking in this summer
Brits needing visas to go to France
for the first time ever
due to a rule the UK insisted on
when it was in the EU