Why are people genuinely thinking winding the clock back, in a world that will not, is a good thing?
We didn’t have cars years ago, and we managed. Yes, managed to walk everywhere and the poor very much stayed poor because they literally had no mobility.
The world has changed, industry has changed, how money works has changed, EVERYTHING has changed. Yes, we can certainly grow our own food. At a much higher cost. Much higher. And in limited varieties. Anything else we will still have to buy in, again at higher prices. UK inc will not be an attractive place to set up business, or come to work in. Which is fine, I guess, if you see immigration as the source of our woes. Unfortunately that piece of the jigsaw holds far more than the perceived negatives.
Farming, the service industry, manufacturing and the NHS are literally held together with immigrants. This food we’re going to grow - who will harvest it? Yes, UK natives USED to do this. But the cost of living and the way we live doesn’t support this any longer. British people don’t want to be out in a field, doing backbreaking work, in all weathers. They don’t want to clean toilets in hospitals, or be waiters, or work in a factory
This is the most frustrating part for me - people have voted to take our economy backwards, on a world stage that will continue to move forwards, without even a basic consideration to the consequences @Horsepants - it’s not scaremongering, it’s fact! 40% tariff on UK lamb, will start on Brexit Day. Will make British lamb unsellable on the world market. So UK farmers stop raising sheep (notoriously difficult to keep and get ill for no fucking reason at all) and so we will have to import it - at a higher cost because we don’t have the group buying power of the EU behind us! I live in a village which has 3 farms and they’re all looking at stopping - they just cannot make it work.
Yes, we ‘managed’ years ago - we also had higher death rates, poor access to healthcare for the poor, malnutrition and exploitation of the working classes - you want to go back to that?!
You can’t just roll back one bit, and keep the others parts rolling forward. Your ‘we used to’ thankfully moved forward, and the country with it.
Tell all the CEOs of the numerous large scale manufacturers who have decided to uproot to other countries due to the unattractive prospect we are post-Brexit they’re ‘scaremongering’.
Just because you don’t want something to be true doesn’t mean it isn’t.
Canada, to answer your question.