To ask what has improved since leaving the EU?

[Butterflyfluff]

I’ve just had to pay customs charges on something I ordered from Germany - whilst we were in the EU there were no such charges.

Which got me thinking.

Leaving hasn’t been the disaster some predicted but, I can’t think of anything that affects me that’s actually improved since leaving.

What have other people’s upsides been? (And just being able to say we’re not in the EU anymore doesn’t count! 😂)

Not seeing Nigel Farrage all the time on TV blithering on about taking back control of our country of whatever. That’s literally the only positive thing to come out of the whole sorry mess.

The UK could have had crowns on pint glasses

Nothing stopping us

Next.

People aren't listening really

JRM has already stated that any "benefits" of brexit won't be seen for 50 years...

Didn't see THAT on the side of a bus

@SmellinOfTroy
What are you buying that is getting you free postage? I had 2 bottles of antihistamines sent over from San Francisco - Sep 2020 - cost me $38.83

Cosmetics
Toiletries
Jewellery
Contact lenses - costs me £175 a pair in uk. From USA its £68 a pair. If I spend over £75, I get a percentage discount and free shipping.

$38.83 is EXTORTIONATE!! But I have to say that I follow a few beauty influences on YouTube and they're all saying that postage costs have rocketed over there. Mind you, I didn't believe them because I thought that it was just us that were suffering higher prices because of Brexit and everyone else was unaffected. 😉

@CorrBlimeyGG

clutching at straws but used cars?

Your new/ replacement car will be more expensive too I'm afraid.

It's not that your car has depreciated less it's that it costs more of our money to buy it due to there being more money in the system as it they were printing it off during the pandemic to hand out. Fait money basically

I think the MHRA separates from the EHA next January (two years post Brexit) and while that could mean we could authorise drugs quicker than Europe, won't drug developers focus on the larger European market rather than the niche UK market? I know companies I've worked for focus on the largest markets first for new products...

In what way is the absolute environmental disaster of shipping wine from Oz instead of the Channel a good thing?

@ghostyslovesheets

still the NHS is thriving due to it's extra £350m a week - yes?

DHSC underspent by an average of £395 million per week in the annual accounts for 2020/21 which were finally published three weeks ago. Whatever your opinion of MPs, they did allocate £200 billion and 10% remained unspent.

@CertainUncertain

Despite this, our indefinite leave papers say, 'no recourse to public funds'. Why could this policy not have been instituted for the European workers allegedly claiming UC and housing?

There were multiple cases from different countries who tried to do this, and the EU/EU courts ruled that all EU citizens were to be treated as the same status whichever country they were in. So, if a benefit was awarded to a citizen of the UK, for example, any EU citizen resident here would be entitled to the same benefit. In fact some changes were made to the benefit system here so that some UK citizens couldn't claim in certain circumstances, on order to deny the benefit to EU citizens.

and on that list of Brexit benefits, the EU banned neonicotinoids that are deadly to bees, the UK govt is reversing the ban.

UK is also considering reversing the ban on gras foie and fur imports but I guess that only affects foreign animals

Nothing.

And I'm not surprised with it at all.

I think the pandemic has covered up some of the predicted negative impact and that was extremely lucky for BJ, but then he's an idiot who doesn't help himself so he couldn't capitalise on that either.

It's been a disastrous waste of public money and time that led to nothing positive and many negatives.

And watching country file, we seem to be swapping EU sugar beets with Argentinian cane sugar. So much for the environment but more choice for the consumer.

Brexit costs the UK £600 million a week (FT)

Long term it’s estimated to reduce the UK GDP by 4% at least.

Boris Johnson has reputedly said he regrets backing Brexit now.

I voted remain. I didn’t vote for BJ and his Brexit deal. I’m not arguing with Leavers anymore. Life is too short.

I applied for EU passports for my dc. They are dual UK/EU nationals now and can still go on Erasmus, study, work, move to the EU if they want. We have improved our second language skills. DH and I are about to retire to a Mediterranean town.

I’m sorry for anyone who did not vote for this but that is how I’ve taken back control of our lives.

There are more than 300 posts on here and I haven't seen anyone come up with an actual benefit which I think tells you everything you need to know. Lots of people rejoicing at having their passports stamped (never mind that this effectively restricts the time you can now spend out of the country and that it will now cost you a fortune to make and receive phone calls while you are there), mistakenly attributing the UK's successful vaccine roll-out to Brexit (while conveniently overlooking the fact that the UK has some of the worst Covid figures in Europe) or incoherently wittering about there being no short-term benefits, but they are quietly confident there will be some in the longer term if only they can remember what they are. Honestly - if that's what they'd written on the side of a bus would you still have voted for it? This tells it like it is

Australian animal welfare standards are appalling too

I'm starting to think that list is supposed to be a pisstake.

@TheKeatingFive

I'm starting to think that list is supposed to be a pisstake.

It must be - and I think the fact that it’s being supported as being ‘for real’ says quite a lot

For those saying about Eastern European’s working for cheap wages. So, they’ve gone, and currently the industries they worked in are struggling to recruit.

So the solution is pay employees more? How will they do that? Ah, put their prices up. So everything costs more. Perfect. No problem, put everyone’s wages up. Ah, bugger. Need to raise prices again to cover the higher wage bills. That’ll do it. Hold on, gaaaah, inflation, no one can afford anything. Quick, put interest rates up, stop them spending. Oh, now the employers are going bust because their costs outstrip their income because everything is so expensive and rents/mortgages have gone up.

Assuming all foreign workers did low paid jobs, claimed benefits is utter crap and is the insidious racism the ERG encouraged - it’s not us rich taking your money, it’s that foreign family…’ like Hitler blamed the Jews for the ills of Germany’s galloping inflation prior to WWII. My specialist cardiac Nurse was from Lithuania. Similarly 2 of the consultants were from other EU countries. Many, many workers from overseas far outstrip the intellectual and qualification level of those whose jobs they supposedly took. The housing crisis is caused by selling off council houses and economic conditions favouring those who can buy second or multiple properties.

The current energy crisis isn’t as bad in the EU. They have group buying power AND their goats are stepping in by limiting how much of the price hike is passed to customers.

I think it is morally bankrupt that a government has encouraged and exploited a seeming unwillingness to truly find out facts and instead believe tripe from the media or FB posts.

And fucking JRM wants to allow the import of fur and Foie Gras to resume. Perhaps those trying to insist there are positives can bagsie this?!

Lots of people rejoicing at having their passports stamped

They won't be saying that when they are stuck in queues, no one is going to be "waved through"

The current energy crisis isn’t as bad in the EU. They have group buying power AND their goats are stepping in by limiting how much of the price hike is passed to customers.

It's good to know that our energy crisis until as bad as in the EU. Looks like their goats are rubbish at their jobs. Should have employed sheep!

I just read goats 😂😂😂😂 our energy crisis is worse because our government (goats quite apt actually) refuse to take on the billions making energy giants and say ‘enough’ unlike EU countries.

Goats.

@Louisianagumbo

The current energy crisis isn’t as bad in the EU. They have group buying power AND their goats are stepping in by limiting how much of the price hike is passed to customers.

It's good to know that our energy crisis until as bad as in the EU. Looks like their goats are rubbish at their jobs. Should have employed sheep!

Yes very amusing!

France has just hiked its gas by 14% and electricity by a whooping 4%, Spain (the bastards) are ripping their consumers off buy cutting prices.....

Thankfully, free of the shackles of the EU, we are free to up prices by 54%.

How about that for a Brexit Benefit?

@ILoveAllRainbowsx I am thoroughly sickened by your assisted dying views. Yours have to be the most shocking posts I have ever read on here.

Words. Fucking. Fail. Me.