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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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DuesToTheDirt · 04/04/2024 22:35

Mixedvegetables · 04/04/2024 18:48

That'll be because we're all still a bit stunned ...

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Yes, it's coming up for 8 years and I'm still not over it.

Wish44 · 04/04/2024 22:35

GoingJacobsandRitz · 04/04/2024 18:14

Blue passports! We got blue passports again! That's the only reason I voted....😐

😂Not even blue though are they…. More black than blue…. I couldn’t believe it when my new one turned up….. they couldn’t even get that right!!!

VivX · 04/04/2024 22:35

Alstreena · 04/04/2024 19:00

That list is so weak, they've had to resort to including "blue passports" as a fucking "benefit" FFS. It would be laughable if it wasn't so fucking tragic.

Bollindger · 04/04/2024 22:38

Had the world not gone through Covid, I think things would be very different, Covid cost Billions and closed the world down. So how can we measure things in this instants?
However not being on the hook for the EU budget does make me smile...

lateatwork · 04/04/2024 22:42

I get a stamp in my passport.

It's a reward for the longer queues at any point of disembarkation- which I really appreciate.

SnakesAndArrows · 04/04/2024 22:43

ButWhatAboutTheBees · 04/04/2024 19:02

We got the Covid vaccine much earlier...

And those issues mentioned are more to do with the EU being pissy we left and making it harder... like its their fault because they didn't want us to leave. Its like leaving someone and them being deliberately obtuse over things to punish you

Seriously?

We were still actually in the EU when the vaccines were approved, and the UK has always had the ability to licence medicines independently.

The problems outlined are as a result of the UK becoming a third country. We’re treated exactly the same as other non-EEA/Schengen countries. It’s exactly what Brexiters voted for.

VivX · 04/04/2024 23:04

Bollindger · 04/04/2024 22:38

Had the world not gone through Covid, I think things would be very different, Covid cost Billions and closed the world down. So how can we measure things in this instants?
However not being on the hook for the EU budget does make me smile...

But the EU also went through covid. Covid wasn't responsible for the loss of free-trade with EU and the fall-out from that.

"However not being on the hook for the EU budget does make me smile..."

Brexit has cost way more than the UK net contribution to the EU budget. This is like being pleased you found a fiver while deliberately setting fire to a £50 note.

MrsKeats · 04/04/2024 23:04

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?

Literally nothing.

MrsKeats · 04/04/2024 23:05

Alstreena · 04/04/2024 19:00

This is satire.
What exact control have we 'taken back'?

meganorks · 04/04/2024 23:08

We now have rivers overflowing with the most patriotic of shits

Zanatdy · 04/04/2024 23:08

Worse thing is when you’re standing in a massive ‘Brexit queue’ and the other European nationals stroll over to the empty EU gates. I was raging in Portugal standing there waiting to be stamped in for 90 mins whilst numerous flights strolled past. I wanted to ask all those who voted in favour of Brexit to stand aside and let us remainers take priority. This is what happens when people vote for something they don’t fully understand, as it’s not been properly explained to them!!

wellington77 · 04/04/2024 23:10

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.

Completely agree with you. It worries me how much people really don’t care about sovereignty/ democracy all so they can go on holiday easier.

tinytemper66 · 04/04/2024 23:12

Stamps in my passport? 🙈

KnickerlessParsons · 04/04/2024 23:13

meganorks · 04/04/2024 23:08

We now have rivers overflowing with the most patriotic of shits

What's that got to do with Brexit?

Treaclespoon · 04/04/2024 23:13

Mixedvegetables · 04/04/2024 21:38

I still find it heartbreaking even after 8 years 😥

Me too, especially as my daughter has now moved to the EU, she was absolutely furious with Brexit.

Sillypede · 04/04/2024 23:31

KnickerlessParsons · 04/04/2024 23:13

What's that got to do with Brexit?

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Possibly, as about 85% of our environmental protections were/are EU derived and one of those EU regulations is the clean beach legislation.

Peregrina · 04/04/2024 23:34

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

A trade deal with countries half way around the world compared with leaving an organisation where we had a trade deal with 27 countries literally on our doorstep, one of which we share a land border with and one with only 20 miles of sea separating us. But yes, it was a massive deal for Australia.

OnHerSolidFoundations · 04/04/2024 23:35

C**ts

OnHerSolidFoundations · 04/04/2024 23:37

XDownwiththissortofthingX · 04/04/2024 18:18

Well it's been at least a month since the last time we had this exact same thread, so I suppose it's overdue. 💩

Because a very large proportion of us DIDN'T VOTE FOR BREXIT BECAUSE WE'RE NOT SMALL MINDED RACIST TWATS! And we're still pretty pissed.

JanglingJack · 04/04/2024 23:39

For me, the only goodside to Brexit was ditching a load of my Tory racist friends. Lovely meet ups at the park?
Fuck off.

OnHerSolidFoundations · 04/04/2024 23:39

MyOtherCarisAVauxhallZafira · 04/04/2024 19:04

Missing the point but we hired a car in Greece last summer and it was no more difficult than it had been the tens of dozens of times we've done it before? Book online, sign the insurance waiver and contract when you get there, show them your licence, get the keys....

Also the new passports look black runs

Yes mine is definitely black.

brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr · 04/04/2024 23:41

Brexit was the thickest people in the country shitting in their own hands and flinging it at everyone else. Their blaming foreigners / shared institutions / pooled resources for their own shortcomings continues even now with the refugee boats in the channel. The parts of the UK which voted most enthusiastically for Brexit were also often the parts which received most funding from the EU, and now do not receive equivalent funding from government. The stupidity of it all boils my piss.

OnHerSolidFoundations · 04/04/2024 23:41

Exdonkeylover · 04/04/2024 19:35

Didn't loads of people vote so we could have our borders back? You know, the borders we had in place the whole time we were in the EU? As we never adopted the Schengin agreement (can't be bothered to see how it's spelt. Apologies)

Sometimes people don't really know what they're voting for and just do it out of anger. With no thought of the consequences

Don't they just!

Anxiouslump · 04/04/2024 23:46

What were the benefits to Farage, Rees-Mogg and their ilk? Why did they go to all the expense and effort of getting us out? There must have been some benefits for them, surely? Has Brexit made them wealthier or more powerful in some way?