If you voted for brexit did you get what you wanted?

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I’m definitely not a sneery anti-brexiter. I get that 50% of the population had legitimate concerns and did what they thought was best for the country. But my question is: did the thing that was so intolerable as a result of being a part of the EU get resolved for you by way of brexit?

I just don’t see what the point of it all was.

I don't really know what the point of it was either, or really how we ended up in the situation of having a vote.

What I will say though, is that very rarely does the public get what they think they're voting for. Politicians are very good at using ambiguous language. When they say things they know that most people will interpret it a certain way but actually it can be interpreted multiple ways, meaning they can easily back out. Either that or they just blatantly lie to get what they want then deal with it later if they get called out. So us serfs never win regardless how we vote. We do not live in a true democracy.

Yes, I prefer laws made by those I can vote out of office.

Isleoftights · Today 16:26

Yes, I prefer laws made by those I can vote out of office.

Didn't you ever vote for an MEP, such as Nigel Farage?

Never even heard of a single benefit of it

The point was Cameron was playing brinkmanship with Farage, trying to eradicate UKIP and shut down the extremely deep European division with the Tory party.

It achieved neither.

Well that's my point. No-one ever gets what they think they're voting for.

I agree.

I know some people who voted Leave to destabilise the Union. They're absolutely delighted at the result.

I didn’t really expect anything in this time frame, but being able to set out own VAT rules was one of my reasons so that’s working out well.

The requirement was that bananas with excessive curvature should only be used for industrial purposes and as far as I’m aware our supply of bananas remains unchanged post Brexit. As we never had the Euro, the currency is irrelevant

This.

Well I for one am thrilled with my new blue passport. Makes it all totally worthwhile!

Yes I have got everything I wanted ta for asking. And it was 52%, not 50% (in the referendum!)

Many of the shoutiest angriest whingers are people who didn't even vote.

Vladimir Putin got want he wanted delivered through his various agents in UK politics. A weaker, more isolated Britain and a weaker EU. Splitting us from international institutions and alliances is exactly what he wanted. And paid for. Plenty of gullible people were persuaded that this was a good thing. Well done (if you voted Brexit) for helping Putin.

Yes, we left the EU which was the voting aim

You wanted this?

• ”Both exports and imports* will be around 15 per cent lower in the long run than if the UK had remained in the EU. The size of this adjustment is calibrated to match the average estimate of a number of external studies that considered the impact of leaving the EU on the volume of UK-EU trade
• New trade deals with non-EU countries will not have a material impact, and any effect will be gradual*”

https://obr.uk/forecasts-in-depth/the-economy-forecast/brexit-analysis/#assumptions

Why did you never vote for your MEP ?

I’m so fed up with with politicians right now I’d probably vote for Putin

Of the three men in their forties who I know voted Brexit, two were doing it to ‘stick it to the man’ and were pleased with how upset everyone was as that was their goal. The other was voting from a longer term financial markets perspective and now feels it was a mistake.

The two older ones - in their 70s, did it to reduce immigrants. And given that they are still mentioning ‘small boats’ all the time, I don’t think it’s achieved what they hoped for.

I don’t know any women who voted for it. Or admit to. Not saying there weren’t any, I just don’t know their reasonings because they haven’t mentioned it.

What was it you wanted?

It wasn't mainly about the economics but it hasn't proved too bad. Growth is roughly the same as the EU since Brexit.

It did mean we were able to negotiate our own vaccine deals during covid.

The problem is we had a lot of people running the UK that didn't believe in Brexit and were actually trying to undermine it so we got a poor deal.

The benefits of which are……..?

Being restricted to 2kg of medical food when travelling from the U.K. to the EU isn't helpful for a lot of disabled people reliant on tube feeds. That was an unexpected and unfair result of brexit. It's a little known and very definitely detrimental change that has left many disabled people feeling even more restricted than they already are. The choice either wing it and hope border control don't pick on you or risk declaring feed and being left without or ending up in trouble. 2kg of medical feed isn't even 2 days worth of food for some people.