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What are you most looking forward to POST-Brexit?

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Pumperthepumper · 15/12/2019 17:42

I was a remain voter, and voted tactically against the Tories. I lost.

But onwards and upwards! We’re getting Brexit in January, like it or not, so I was just wondering what everyone was looking forward to the most?

I asked on a different pro-Brexit thread but nobody gave me an answer.

For me it’s the 350 million to the NHS with no trade deals with Trump. Or the continuing Peace in NI with no messing around with the GFA. Or the trade deals we’ve been promised without any reduction in standards.

I’m so ready to be convinced of how brilliant Brexit will be! Let me hear your positives, please Flowers

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Parker231 · 19/12/2019 19:49

@Peregrina - much of my information about Brexit is from google sources but why didn’t leavers find the same research - or perhaps they just chose to ignore the facts?

corduroyal · 19/12/2019 19:51

I see brexit as a bout of fetid V&D that will finally purge the U.K. of its imperial pretensions.

We're going to be cut down to size. It won't be pretty but it needs to happen. In the popular imagination we're both somehow better than every other nation and also victimised by them.

Cattenberg · 19/12/2019 19:54

It’s bonkers, isn’t it? If you’d told me five years ago that a Romanian or Bulgarian passport would soon give you more opportunities than a British one, I’d have really felt sorry for you.

Peregrina · 19/12/2019 20:06

Agree corduroyal. The country, what's left of the UK will be better for it.

dimsum123 · 20/12/2019 00:18

Parker, thank you for that. Going to print it off and make posters.

@corduroyal, yes you're probably right. It most definitely is not going to be pretty. But, I doubt very much if the country ie ordinary people, are going to be better off for it. Certain types of people will be, the rest of us will be poorer and not just financially or economically.

It's a disaster whichever way you look at it.

And just to add to the joy don't forget we've got 10 more years of BJ as well....

Chersfrozenface · 20/12/2019 08:19

Possible upsides: folk in Herefordshire will have to stop opposing polytunnels, because we'll need them to produce food year round.

Torchlightt · 20/12/2019 18:28

I can't bear the thought of 10 more years of BJ. Will have to vote for Scottish independence.

Torchlightt · 20/12/2019 18:29

Some people will of course say that Scottish independence (if it happens) is something to look forward to.

yellowallpaper · 20/12/2019 19:08

Maybe ask at the Brexit Arms, and have a pint of Cornish scrumpy at the same time?

Don't waste time here, you'll just get a lot of abuse from those oh so superior Remainers.

yellowallpaper · 20/12/2019 19:11

Oh, I see you are one too. Never mind, better luck next me.

MysteryTripAgain · 20/12/2019 19:19

Break up of the EU

dimsum123 · 20/12/2019 19:36

@MysteryTripAgain, and I guess you're also looking forward to the possibility of another war?

HateIsNotGood · 20/12/2019 19:45

Buying an electric toothbrush or shaver in my local supermarket that I don't have to then buy a 'visitor to the UK' plug adaptor in order to use it. A cheapish toaster that fits UK sliced bread sizes. And whilst I'm on the subject - maybe save a few forests by having instruction manuals in English, and maybe 1 or 2 other relevant languages.

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Pumperthepumper · 20/12/2019 19:47

yellowwallpaper I already did - they couldn’t tell me one single positive. The Brexit arms is mainly celebrating Labour’s loss rather than rejoicing in our glorious fortune post-Brexit. Strange isn’t it? They couldn’t name a single benefit.

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MysteryTripAgain · 20/12/2019 20:28

@MysteryTripAgain, and I guess you're also looking forward to the possibility of another war?

EU is already at war with the US economically. Germany’s huge trade surplus pisses the US big time. Hence he wants no deal to collapse the EU

HateIsNotGood · 20/12/2019 20:45

Let's see know flicks through many lists ah, this one:

The unskilled workforce - whilst I recognize the positive economic benefits overall to the UK economy due to EU FOM - scroll down to the small print and it's not so positive for the low-income groups. And that will never change whilst we keep the current economic models.

A very poignant point is that the workforce that is now considered 'unskilled' were, just a generation ago, highly skilled.

At making things. I'm sure those that are paid greatly for not actually making things, just appear to discuss, buy or sell things that other people make, for their own gain consider their skills to be of higher worth,

but I don't think so. And neither do many others who actually make things, grow things - the practical things the non-makers of things need.

OstrichRunning · 20/12/2019 20:48

There will never be a post-Brexit.

ragged · 20/12/2019 20:51

Who would benefit from break up of the EU?

StealthPolarBear · 20/12/2019 20:58

Putin. Trump. Probably Johnson.

HateIsNotGood · 20/12/2019 21:16

ragged - the low paid, zero hours work force, aka the Marxist description of the expendale workforce - that's who will benefit.

I pay my adieu to Corbyn and McDonnell - they did do some good. Towards the 'pressure group'. I don't agree with them but I respect them and they can retire with 'peace' that the votes that were lost will be holding the current Govt to account and scrutiny.

Retire in Peace - I wish you well.

AuldAlliance · 20/12/2019 21:36

How will the low-paid, zero-hours workforce benefit?

Smilethoyourheartisbreaking · 20/12/2019 21:45

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lonelyplanetmum · 21/12/2019 08:47

Buying an electric toothbrush or shaver in my local supermarket that I don't have to then buy a 'visitor to the UK' plug adaptor in order to use it. A cheapish toaster that fits UK sliced bread sizes.And whilst I'm on the subject - maybe save a few forests ....

I'm really confused by this.How will swapping the EU as our main trading partner for more USA products make those products more closely designed for specific UK requirements?

  1. US products have two pin plugs. If they wanted to make us 3 pin ones they could have done so before.
  2. If the US wanted to make us toasters to fit our sliced bread they could have done this previously.
  3. How does flying stuff all the way from the US rather than the EU help with forests?

Procter & Gamble Co make electric toothbrushes at their manufacturing site in Iowa why would they change the type of plug to suit us when the market didn't justify this before?

All Sonicare toothbrushes are manufactured in China why would they change the type of plug to suit us when the market didn't justify this before?

Some Oral-B electric toothbrushes are made in Germany why would they change the type of plug to suit us when the market didn't justify this before?

If the answer is that we should make our own well nothing was stopping us doing that before.

Not sure that toasters and plugs make all this hassle worth it to be honest.

OhYouBadBadKitten · 21/12/2019 10:59

I plug my electric toothbrush into a shaver socket in our bathroom cabinet. Ditto the shaver. So I'm a little puzzled!

JassyRadlett · 21/12/2019 11:16

I plug my electric toothbrush into a shaver socket in our bathroom cabinet. Ditto the shaver. So I'm a little puzzled!

I think the PP is trying to blame the UK’s reasonably unique terror of Plugs In Bathrooms on the EU.