What is going to be better on the ‘other side’?

[Bearbehind]

I’ve long since accepted that Brexit is happening.

But what is going to be better once we’ve left?

What is the everyday Joe going to notice that improves their life?

She is intelligent enough to devote her efforts in areas where they will yield the best results. That tells you something, if you are willing to hear.

She's a professional woman with a day job who has used her own money to fight for democracy in this country.

The Leave campaigns have been found guilty of cheating, and lying, but so far, the police under pressure from the government have continued to drag their feet over it.

Just like Boris is making sure you can't see the proof of the Russian interference in the referendum, at least until after the election.

But you're happy to ignore that and blame everyone else, as is typical of the leavers.

How long before Farage is put into the House of Lords - anyone fancy a wager?

Can you be a Lord and an MEP at the same time? Which one pays better?

Too many people here now plus we’re all living 25 years longer than we did 50 years ago.

The population of the UK has been rising gradually over the last 50 years , along with life expectancy, no sudden massive changes on either count. Life expectancy has actually plateaued so it is totally incorrect and factually wrong to say we are all living 25 years longer. 72 in 1971 and 81 in 2016. that's an increase in 9 years over 50.

These figures are interesting.
The gains in last 25 yrs have been mostly in Older adults (age 50+).

And for those who want to “take back control of our laws”, EU laws are being quietly turned into UK law already.

I’ve never heard a sensible justification for leave.

My mother voted leave because she didn’t want the EU telling her she couldn’t have a vacuum cleaner that sucked properly.

My cousins voted leave because there are too many refugees in this country, stealing all our jobs. Their father was a refugee, as were our great grandparents, but apparently that’s different.

My other cousins voted leave because they work for the NHS and believed what it said on the bus. They still believe what it said on the bus.

None of these people have the faintest idea what “trade on WTO terms” means, they just spout it.

They don’t know the difference between the EU and NATO.

ONS figures, #millions of UK population age 65+

1991: 9.1
2016: 11.8 (increase of 2.7 mln, so that's only ~35% of the ~8 mln gain between those 2 population pyramids.

I seem to recall that maybe 2-4% of people age 65+ living in UK were born outside UK. So the gains in this group will be overwhelmingly UK born.

My cousins voted leave because there are too many refugees in this country, stealing all our jobs.
This is a special type of stupid, because refugees can't even work.

And for those who want to “take back control of our laws”, EU laws are being quietly turned into UK law already.
Not quietly - it was a requirement so that we were not lawless on Day 1. Completed by March (1st exit day). Nothing to do with changing those laws later, just a necessary interim step.

would remainers notice the difference of Brexit
too effing right I would
For the last week I have been using

• EU roaming rights to run my business online while working in another EU country
• I have used EU mutual recognition rules to be allowed to drive my car for work in that country
• I have used EU freedom of movement to be allowed to bid for work in that country
• I have used EU environmental regulations to know that the drinking water was safe where I was working
• I have used EU GDPR rules to know that my information was being correctly handled

if Brexit happens I would be unable to do that work
and thus be many many thousands of pounds a year worse off

I'll certainly notice lots of negative differences given that I will no longer have the automatic right to live in the same country as my children.

Not to mention the freedoms I use for my small business such as being able to supply services in other European countries - all gone.