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please can you tell me any benefits of brexit

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battenburg100 · 04/04/2024 18:04

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?

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VeniVidiWeeWee · 04/04/2024 21:00

Well, I enjoy watching remoaners frothing at the mouth.

LittleBearPad · 04/04/2024 21:07

LadyMonicaBaddingham · 04/04/2024 19:56

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

When?

The last election was 2019 when we hadn’t even left. The Tory party are screwed in the upcoming election, all that will remain are right-wing loons who promise the moon on a stick and deliver nothing

caringcarer · 04/04/2024 21:12

We got a trade deal with Australia and joined the CPTPP with 11 other trading countries.

Talkinpeace · 04/04/2024 21:15

caringcarer · 04/04/2024 21:12

We got a trade deal with Australia and joined the CPTPP with 11 other trading countries.

And that benefits the UK economy by how many ££££

LittleBearPad · 04/04/2024 21:18

caringcarer · 04/04/2024 21:12

We got a trade deal with Australia and joined the CPTPP with 11 other trading countries.

Lovely. Lots of cheap beef heading this way to totally bugger our farmers

Lovepeaceunderstanding · 04/04/2024 21:20

fungipie · 04/04/2024 19:57

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?

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@fungipie , no it’s ‘our’ fault. 😔

fungipie · 04/04/2024 21:20

caringcarer · 04/04/2024 21:12

We got a trade deal with Australia and joined the CPTPP with 11 other trading countries.

and the benefits? Undercutting British farming in every way with cheap, poor quality imports! Hurrah!

fungipie · 04/04/2024 21:21

LittleBearPad · 04/04/2024 21:18

Lovely. Lots of cheap beef heading this way to totally bugger our farmers

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hormone fed, and poor husbandry. Brilliant.

SleepQuest33 · 04/04/2024 21:24

Let’s face it, it was a disastrous decision! An entire country doing hara-kiri on itself.

thank you Nigel!!

goodnessmeandgosh · 04/04/2024 21:25

Had to pay an extra 200 to buy something from Europe.
ruined several people I know businesses .

fungipie · 04/04/2024 21:28

Imports adn exports were so free and easy and so cheap. All gone now.

G54hddr · 04/04/2024 21:30

We have nothing to attract any other country. Previously we were the gateway to Europe, now we are the gateway to nowhere. So yes I’d like to see the list of benefits. At what point can we say the benefits still haven’t surfaced so there are none and it was a complete disastrous mistake?

verasscarf · 04/04/2024 21:31
  1. Happy Fish
  2. Liz Truss and her pork markets
Redlarge · 04/04/2024 21:32

High cost of living.

Kendodd · 04/04/2024 21:34

We can dump as much shit in the sea as we want?

Mixedvegetables · 04/04/2024 21:38

I still find it heartbreaking even after 8 years 😥

PrincessTeaSet · 04/04/2024 21:50

SunnyDays24 · 04/04/2024 20:27

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.

Well having recently been on holiday to Spain, I was interested to see that they didn't seem to have had the increase in food prices that the UK has had. Prices seemed comparable to last time I went, about 5 years ago

Sillypede · 04/04/2024 21:58

CranfordScones · 04/04/2024 18:47

None of the issues you've outlined are problems of Brexit - they're problems of bureaucracy - and they could be solved at the stroke of a bureaucrat's pen.

To think that the solution to a few passport and car hire difficulties should be the surrender of sovereignty to a supranational parliament so weak that it can't even propose its own legislation is to miss the point by such a huge margin as to make it pointless debating with you.

That stroke of a pen would involve rejoining the single market in some form. Not the Brexit many wanted.

Yes, we could have left the EU and negotiated better terms, but we didn't want to keep those pesky environmental laws, employment rights & the freedom of protest.

We wanted Freeports, less financial sector oversight and a deal with the US that would pave the way for the privatisation of most of the NHS and our Universities.

We wanted to be a damp Singapore, a deregulated paradise for the rich, with London being the financial capital of the world.

But we're a nation of cowards, led by fantasists & fanatics, with too much power & too little understanding of what we were good at and what made us work. A collection of social, cultural & economic vandals who would happily sacrifice every one of us for their half-arsed philosophy.

ssd · 04/04/2024 22:07

Middle England fell for Brexit, with its union Jack's waving around and Boris acting like their friend. Too many people thought voting for Brexit would show their loyalty to England.

Now we're all stuffed.

Jovacknockowitch · 04/04/2024 22:13

I was promised compulsory chlorinated chicken and the immediate abolition of all workers rights. We have been robbed.

LenaLamont · 04/04/2024 22:17

ssd · 04/04/2024 22:07

Middle England fell for Brexit, with its union Jack's waving around and Boris acting like their friend. Too many people thought voting for Brexit would show their loyalty to England.

Now we're all stuffed.

I think a lot of it was more of a protest vote - "I am not happy with the status quo and apparently this will fix it" kind of thing.

Brexiteers carefully obfuscated what it would actually mean, which in the end was something no one wanted. And we're all bollocksed.

ssd · 04/04/2024 22:20

I don't buy it was a protest vote. Protesting against what, the establishment...so they voted for something led by Boris Johnson and nigel farage, 2 establishment men through and through??

Nah, don't but it

LetMeGoogleThat · 04/04/2024 22:30

People that shouldn't be let loose with a crayon suddenly headed to the polls clutching a pen for democracy!

On no, wait.......🤦‍♀️

VivX · 04/04/2024 22:32

There are none. It's such a monumental fuck-up.

Octomama · 04/04/2024 22:33

The influx of black male and female social workers from Western Africa