How will i be better off?

[FreakStar]

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

Points 2 and 3 in Frumpety’s post at 18:44 yesterday are the most accurate I would say.

The firm selling Union Jacks and St George flags will be making a tidy profit.

Made in Taiwan?

True story here.

My friends were pro brexit. Very much so. Some racist waffle about immigrants.

They are in Croydon. Couldn't wait for it to be redeveloped into a Westfield, which am was all in motion, investors in place and plans going through

Croydon redevelopment into a Westfield has been postponed (again) potentially cancelled due to investors 'fears over brexit'.

This means their jobs have been directly, negatively affected. They have retail jobs in the current shopping centre which has since turned into a wasteland.

It also means their house prices have been very negatively affected.

An absolute disaster for them.

Do they realise this? No. They just keep saying 'oh but brexit won't affect people like us' totally unaware of the irony of it all, it already has totally fucked them up. They are directly worse off for it but still their hatred for immigrants is all they see.

Same over here, big factories and small businesses are closing or taking the work to Europe, but the dismissed workers that voted for their own dismissal are blaming in Europe being nasty... just as Boris wants.

Wait until we are forced to align with US worker rights demands to keep economy’s head above water. My big question would be, whatever happened to passporting? Nobody talks about it these days, would be interesting to see how things pan out if Boris intransigence manages to cause banking to move out of London. Perhaps that would make us realise that we are now as powerful in the world scene as New Zealand (just saying because we also have a lot of sheep )

No ore pet passports and you may need a international driving permit:

www.gov.uk/visit-europe-1-january-2021

My leave voting neighbour with a second property in an EU country (that they go to with their dogs and drive around regularly) will be fuming.

No more pet passports and it being more difficult to travel with a pet is one of very few advantages. You will still be able to go but likely to need initial rabies vacc then blood test and then a vet issued certificate for every journey, which will increase the cost and hassle considerably. It was never the intention for the PET scheme to be a route to bring in thousands of underage farmed puppies and rescued street dogs from Europe and we will be able to reintroduce tick control measures (though that horse has bolted)

I lived through a period of negative equity ; nobody was really going anywhere for ages. It did change eventually , but it was very slow.

Problem with negative equity is that if nobody is selling, rented properties are in high demand which means rental prices go up.

in any year only 5% of houses sell
and due to gross generational inequality there are LOTS of people like me who have no mortgage
and could never afford our own houses at current prices
thus wew have nothing to lose from an HPC

@Patchworksack

Very interested in ticks as i had a Lyme disease scare last year.

In what way does the EU stop us having any border control measures? also the puppy thing too, these are up to member states.

Just as we don't have bull fighting in the UK, we don't have to have underage puppies either, if the UK has poor port infrastructure, not enough border officers and doesn't enact uk law, whose fault is that?

I understood that increases in tick numbers and hence lyme disease, is down to climate change and far more deer than ever before.

Happy to learn from you though.

Now we can start collecting passport stamps when we go on holiday, yay!

We already had Lyme. The pet passport scheme used to stipulate vet-appplied and certified tick treatment and tapewormer in the 24-48 hours before return to the UK, and then the tick treatment requirement was removed, leaving the UK open to a lot of tick borne diseases that we were free of. This has as predicted happened and we've had cases of tick borne disease other than Lyme in dogs which haven't left the UK, and ticks in Kent now carrying Erhlichia. The young puppies will to some extent be prevented by a new requirement for rabies vaccination followed by blood test followed by 3-6m waiting period (details as yet unclear as with everything else post Brexit). Again when the scheme was first introduced it took 7-8months to prepare an animal to travel, currently it is 21 days, with unscrupulous breeders vaccinating pups that are too young to adequately respond to a vaccine and importing them to get them to owners while they are still cute and fluffy.
I'm a Remainer, by the way, I'm just scraping the barrel to find some positives for our biosecurity. It probably pales into insignificance against whatever the USA will make us sign up to....

Lyme came in from the USA
(its named after the town in Connecticut)
nothing at all to do with the EU

Lyme disease was described in Scotland in 1764 so I'm not sure we can blame the EU for that one, but it was imported from America in the same way - infected ticks hitching a lift across the ocean or infected people or animals then spreading the disease back to native ticks. Once the British ticks become infected then we have lost all hope of getting rid of a disease, which is why seeing the european tick-borne diseases in non-travelled pets is a particular worry.