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How will i be better off?

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FreakStar · 01/02/2020 15:55

So, a majority voted for Brexit- you must think we will benefit in some way. What can I look forward to being better?

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jasjas1973 · 01/02/2020 20:21

...not surprising, brexit was always about foreigners, it's why so few (none?) can put fwd any tangible benefits.

PortiaCastis · 01/02/2020 20:30

Whoever stuck that notice up is foul and stupid

StealthMama · 01/02/2020 20:33

So we get;
£350m per week in the nhs
50000 immigration workers per year instead of 333,000
Loads of new trade deals that were agreed by March 2019
A high tech customers solution
A complete end to Free movement

StealthMama · 01/02/2020 20:37

Oh and the Eu will get out of our fisheries.

So better care, more jobs, cheaper stuff, more UK based Holidays, and fish.

AuldAlliance · 01/02/2020 20:39

A high tech customers solution

Can you explain?

ListeningQuietly · 01/02/2020 20:40

Stealthmama
Please tell me you do not believe your own post ....

jasjas1973 · 01/02/2020 20:56

the 350m will be eaten up by lost trade and increased friction costs
(which is why javid has told ALL govt to tighten their belts, (as if after 10 years of austerity they can?)
EU migration will be replace by migrants from else but possible a small drop in numbers (remember the 330k figure inc students)

No new deals were reached in March 19, roll over some existing EU ones agreed but not approved.

We'll need to get out of EU fisheries too.

FOM affects us too....... and will be disastrous for the low paid healthcare sector.

How will we get cheaper goods? already have FTAs with most of the worlds biggest economies (or used too)

Who the fuck wants to holiday in over crowed, wet and very expensive UK.

MrsCobbit · 01/02/2020 21:11

We all know it was bollocks - I really and dearly hope the turkeys pay for it - I’ll be ok regardless...

jasjas1973 · 01/02/2020 21:15

Me too but i've always been proud to be British and i don't want our country ruined... 2012 and the Olympics seems sooooooooo long ago

but this is what you get when weak leaders kowtow to populist sects.

StealthMama · 01/02/2020 21:29

@AuldAlliance no I can't, they never said much more than that sentence

@ListeningQuietly No.

This is the list that people voted for from the leave manifesto in 2016 and we shouldn't let anyone forget it. They owe us.

jasjas1973 · 01/02/2020 21:33

ah, i see, good one! sorry i thought you were being serious.

boredwithfootball · 01/02/2020 21:47

Come on leavers.... where are you all???

Just one good thing each?

Jellykat · 01/02/2020 21:57

It never was £350 million btw, that figure never included our rebate of £100 million that doesn't even leave this country! Boris and his cronies fiddled that figure, didn't you know Stealthmama?
Then take away the Farming subsidies, and all the other EU funding this country received, and guess what? theres not a lot left..

TheGreatWave · 01/02/2020 22:02

Who the fuck wants to holiday in over crowed, wet and very expensive UK.

I quite like it. Halo Not too bothered about the wet either.

LizzieSiddal · 01/02/2020 22:06

Dot forget we will get a new, great trade deal with the USA.

Chlorinated chicken and more expensive drugs! What more could we want.

StealthMama · 01/02/2020 22:16

@Jellykat and nobody mentions the £42bn we will be paying the eu until 2067.

Meanwhile, my local hospital will be closed next year.

CloudPop · 01/02/2020 22:16
  • Well the NHS should be £350 Million better off by the end of next week, and every week thereafter . . . .

We pay the EU until the end of the transition period so next year!!*

We've already spent more on "leaving" than we ever paid into the EU.

Twillow · 01/02/2020 22:35

@StealthMama [hmn]

Pumperthepumper · 01/02/2020 22:57

I have one, although it’s a poisoned chalice, I’m afraid - more people will go vegetarian/vegan on the back of the massive drop in food standards. Very hard to fuck about with broccoli (although I’m sure you can) but you can EASILY fuck with chlorinated, antibiotic-injected rapid-growth meat flown thousands of miles. Delicious!

TheMotherofAllDilemmas · 01/02/2020 23:20

Honestly, chlorinated chicken is the least of our problems. You will see the hold the US have on our laws and decisions about workers rights, salaries, etc within 10 years. We are just about to sell our souls to the devil.

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FreakStar · 01/02/2020 23:27

How predictable- my thread seems to be full of remainers Smile. The leavers seem strangely quiet Hmm

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MetallicHighlights · 01/02/2020 23:33

In future years it will be much easier to explain the term “Pyrrhic victory”.

OverTheRainbowLiesOz · 01/02/2020 23:37

The firm selling Union Jacks and St George flags will be making a tidy profit. Other than that, I'm struggling to think of anything.

Hester54 · 01/02/2020 23:41

Why do you think leavers voted to be better off? Most will be happy just to be out of the EU, if we stay the same job done,

TheGreatWave · 01/02/2020 23:42

Good times can be spent reading the FB comments on the news pages, people are either not happy that the uplands haven't been delivered today, or they think that actually we are completely 'free' and we don't have to follow any EU laws.

Oh and the best bit was the turkey / Christmas joke going right over someone's head.

Come the 31st December I think there will be a lot of disappointment from the leavers when the reality hits (I mean in terms of laws etc)

I have to laugh at it, otherwise I'd cry. It is like leaver stereotype bingo.