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How will a No-Deal Brexit affect you?

104 replies

nodealbrexit · 31/07/2018 19:37

NC as I'm giving a lot of personal detail here...

I'm an immigrant to this country, I hold dual Commonwealth + EU citizenship so I don't really have a personal dog in the fight so to speak.

HOWEVER, a no-deal Brexit will impact our family. DH is a banker, he is an FCA "Approved Person" which means he can give financial advice/act as an investment manager/M&A/capital raising in the UK, and by association, the EU. My understanding is, if we leave with no deal, DH will no longer be able to practice in Europe and will have to apply to each individual country to be "approved" to do business there. A lot of DHs business is in Western Europe. Our livelihood is on the line.

I'm curious to know how a no deal Brexit will directly affect you and/or your family.

I'm also fucked off with this Government for being so incompetent. I was actually a little bit excited at the Leave vote (lots of opportunity) but now I'm getting increasingly worried nothing is being put in place for a no deal, except Dominic Raab saying we'll stockpile groceries... Helpful.

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Clairetree1 · 03/08/2018 11:02

I was actually a little bit excited at the Leave vote (lots of opportunity)

what opportunity were you excited about exactly?

Quietrebel · 03/08/2018 11:19

a little bit excited at the leave vote
I suppose it's like butterflies in the stomach before a bungee jump- but would you be so excited if they told you the harness is a fake?
#ibeLeaveicanfly

indistinct · 03/08/2018 11:48

Company is already seeing retraction or no/minimal growth in 4 out of 5 industry sectors. The only sector growing is the public sector as government has to invest to deliver Brexit. Impacts career prospects and job security.

Obvious stuff like rising prices due to fall in pound, ability to travel and get jobs abroad, etc ... worst effect will be impact on kids future prospects (all uk kids not just mine) given post-brexit fall-out will likely take 10-20 years or longer to unwind (particularly a hard brexit). That alone is why this must be resisted.

Area is predicted to be most heavily impacted according to government Brexit scenario projections. Expect to see increased joblessnes, poverty, disaffection etc ... as a result.

Can foresee a situation where this will result in civil unrest and a good deal worse.

CrabbityRabbit · 03/08/2018 12:42

I will keep my job but work will go bananas. I would fully expect to be pulled off my normal caseload to help with the shower of shite that will hit us with full force.

Otherwise we will be poorer. DPs job prospects will be even worse than they are now and I will likely get my pay frozen again since we will be thrown into another recession.

Doraismissing · 03/08/2018 12:45

I will probably be relocated by work to Luxembourg and will have to leave my children at home with my husband in the UK due schooling and his business. Hopefully I will be able to negotiate a flight home each week. I live my job but need to be able to work across Europe

doradoo · 03/08/2018 13:04

I‘m also a UK citizen living in the EU, we as a Family have acquired dual citizenship with our EU country so hopefully have negated too many problems- but still concerned about family in the UK and how easy it may be to visit etc( both ways). We also have worries about investments etc in the UK and how they may be affected post Brexit.

Ta1kinpeace · 03/08/2018 13:08

Keeping to my diet will get easier because there will be less food in the shops and what there is will be more expensive

UK refrigerated warehousing is already running at 90% capacity
moving away from Just in Time food selling is not physically possible in the UK

IWannaSeeHowItEnds · 03/08/2018 13:29

I don't think it's reasonable to expect voters in this country to prioritise the lifestyles of people who have chosen to leave it and live elsewhere, when deciding to vote leave or remain. Likewise, they can't base their choices on the marital situations of Brits based abroad - inability to get divorced is surely down to the rules of the country in which you have chosen to live? As are citizenship rights. The UK doesn't insist on single nationality, as some countries do, so in all fairness, I don't consider those problems to be the fault of vote leave.

LoveInTokyo · 03/08/2018 13:34

IWannaSeeHowItEnds

I don't expect voters to necessarily take it into account, but governments absolutely should.

A lot of the most worrying issues for UK citizens living in Europe and EU citizens living in the UK could have been resolved by both sides agreeing that anyone currently exercising their treaty rights on X date can continue to exercise those same rights indefinitely, as if the UK had never left the EU, no ifs, no buts.

The EU was willing to offer that to UK citizens but the UK was not willing to offer it to EU citizens.

IWannaSeeHowItEnds · 03/08/2018 13:37

Agree that this should have bern offered by both sides and that yes, the govt ought to have considered it. I do believe that both sides are too busy posturing to consider the best interests of all their citizens.

LoveInTokyo · 03/08/2018 13:41

But the EU offered that, right at the beginning. That could have been agreed two years ago and several million people could have been spared all these sleepless nights worrying about it.

IWannaSeeHowItEnds · 03/08/2018 13:48

Did they? I thought it was that the UK wouldn't guarantee it until the EU did. If that's not the case, then totally agree the govt should have done so.

LoveInTokyo · 03/08/2018 13:50

The EU offered it first. The UK wasn't prepared to agree to open ended rights and wanted to make them subject to all kinds of conditions.

Obviously the EU is not going to guarantee those rights for UK citizens in the EU if the UK won't do the same for EU citizens in the UK.

littlebillie · 03/08/2018 13:55
littlebillie · 03/08/2018 13:56

This

littlebillie · 03/08/2018 13:57

Trade
Food
Energy
Social unrest
Unemployment
NHS demise
Food
Energy

Is that enough

Talkstotrees · 03/08/2018 20:37

Walkingdeadfangirl didn’t vote leave Confused

Agustarella · 04/08/2018 22:55

UK passport holder here, no Irish ancestors. I will be an illegal immigrant in France.

I cant get worked up about Brexit when the experts are worried about sandwiches.

Let them eat cake!

DisgraceToTheYChromosome · 05/08/2018 09:33

My industry, haulage, will probably collapse. The big fleets run on Baltic drivers, particularly the supermarkets, food suppliers and home delivery. The average age of a British born C+E holder is 58, an EU driver around 28.

They might offer huge sums of money, but they'll want 15 hour days. Expect to see far more crashes as elderly men die at the wheel.

hesbeeneatingapotato · 07/08/2018 18:02

I'll be made redundant and my entire industry will leave the country. I'll need to find the money to retrain, pay the mortgage, and DS's nursery fees. DH will be away for months on end if the plan to ferry food up and down the country using the RAF goes ahead, leaving me fucking miles from anyone with no support with a baby.

Money issues are already impacting us. We can get anyone to rent the house we own, even at well below market value, because people are struggling to make ends meet even without Brexit realtor issues. I can't see this changing.

Practically and financially, we'll really struggle to get by. I'm trying to find new work now, which I'm gutted about, because as much as I love my job, I can't risk redundancy.

runningkeenster · 10/08/2018 18:01

I don't think I will be massively affected day to day other than increased food prices, less choice of products and maybe not being able to get other things as easily - whether that's' cars, make-up or whatever, depending on where they come from and where their parts/ingredients are sourced from.

I have an EU qualification and am an e-resident in Estonia so can have an EU company working in euros if I went freelance but currently am employed in a role where I could probably just reduce hours and salary if they had less work for me. I could still eat. DH might be able to do the same. We have no mortgage.

Neither of us can get an EU or other passport.

I think some of the stuff around flights is a little exaggerated, as presumably it only applies to UK airlines and the other airlines will continue to fly in and out of the UK. But I'm not booking any holidays until I am sure and in any event ds has GCSEs so we won't be going anywhere until they've finished. And I'm more concerned about whether we'd suddenly need visas even if we could go via Eurostar or ferry.

Expect to see far more crashes as elderly men die at the wheel

58 is hardly elderly!

However, I just can't see how no deal is even possible.

StoorieHoose · 10/08/2018 18:09

I think Scotland will hold another referendum for independence

FloralCup · 10/08/2018 18:12

I think Scotland will hold another referendum for independence
That'll be a difficult choice! Scotland wouldn't be able to rejoin the EU in the same terms as now.

lljkk · 11/08/2018 09:58

My current job contract runs out in March 2019. I like my job & don't want to leave early. I can only see how No Deal would make job hunting just then harder.

MongerTruffle · 11/08/2018 10:04

I don't know how our trade with mexico will be affected by not being in the eu or customs union.....

We don't have any trade agreements with other countries. Our trade with other countries is entirely dependent on the trade deals negotiated by the 28 member states together. If this does not continue after Brexit, huge taxes and duties will be charged on imported products until we can negotiate something.