Genuine question - what does anyone like about Brexit?

[Pipsquiggle]

I have always been a committed remainer - I work in an industry that depends on seamless logisitics, particularly entering / leaving the UK. Brexit is a shit show for my sector.

Just had to pay £96.80 to UPS to release a package that I'd paid express delivery for, that should've arrived 2 days ago - I'm pissed off. The German firm has already agreed to reimburse me but it's all such a ball ache.

So I have a very bleak outlook when it comes to Brexit.

Genuinely, I would like to hear of good news stories around Brexit.
How has it made your life better?
If your pay has increased - how much by and which industry are you in?
If there has been a legal upside for you - which law and how has it helped?

I am genuinely hoping to 'reframe' my thoughts / feelings on Brexit and was hoping this board could help me

www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/it-hasn-t-worked-the-leave-voters-who-have-changed-their-minds-about-brexit/ar-AA14R67o

Reads like a competition to find the dimmest people in the land. I reckon it's a tie for joint first.

I shall be so bold as to tell you what I like about Brexit.

That is, that I was right about Brexit.

Ha ha you are not alone there...

The amazing thing is it didn't even fulfil its main aim of stopping the argument in the Tory party, who would have thought it!

Labour manifesto would have been good opportunity to run on changes, SM etc

Especially if polls indicate regret from many. Sadly they’ve made their statement and another five years with just a small level

Friends who own them that should say.. anyone who was stressed about livelihood in pandemic.

Not viable should close line is even more naive than calls to shut private sector it won’t impact much

Do you mean Boris' friends who earnt millions for not supplying PPE or not sorting out a functioning track and trace system?

Not sure what that has to dow ith the benefits of brexit, but I suppose without brexit Boris would not have prime Minister and so his friends would not have been enriched at the taxpayers expense.

Wrong thread…

I meant it for other one

Not related to Brexit

BTW what’s happening with the Ministry of Brexit Opportunities and the high-ranking individual JRM? Did he deliver on his objectives, or just quietly moved on?

He discovered all the Brexit opportunities that will occur this century and here is a comphrehensive list of them:

@jgw1 😂😂

^^ Also the face JRM is probably making every morning when he realises he’s got away with it for another day.

Oh I am sure like his hero Ebenezer Scrouge he is happy in his counting house each morning counting all his money and wondering why everyone else isn't as clever and happy as he is.

He’s refined, sublime, he makes you feel fine
Though very much maligned and misunderstood

I might have got the wrong Ebeneezer there.

Naughty, but spot on with Leave Logic!

Me naughty? Surely not.

I'm an unashamed diehard remoaner @jgw1 and it took me a while to realise what you were doing on the various Brexit threads <dim I know>. So only 'naughty' because I fell right into the trap!

I was hoping by posting on this board that I would be inundated by Brexiteers regaling on how Brexit had made their lives better.

My friendship and professional networks are overwhelmingly 'remain' so I was hoping to get out of my echo chamber and hear some tangible benefits.

So far we've heard that it's better for pockets of trades EG. Builders, drivers.
Sounds like some locum pharmacists are doing well. All due to lack of people.

I do wonder how bad it has to get before people - the public, particularly people who still believe in Brexit and the Government (all parties) will admit that we were better in than out.

Will we have to wait that the older folk (majority Brexit) have died and younger people have replaced them? And that inequalities are tackled rather than blaming the EU?

So far we've heard that it's better for pockets of trades EG. Builders, drivers.
Sounds like some locum pharmacists are doing well. All due to lack of people.

I agree, a minority of individuals in specific sectors have had more opportunities due to workforce shortage.

Collective benefits for the country - zilch. It has made things worse for the country as a whole (see additional £6bn on the cost of food which research has found is specifically down to Brexit).

@Pipsquiggle in reply to your earlier question- health research

Will we have to wait that the older folk (majority Brexit) have died and younger people have replaced them? And that inequalities are tackled rather than blaming the EU?

The article I linked to suggests maybe not. A host of older folk very much wanting to undo their damage. Even the admission that the EU had nothing to do with our problems. We need to keep them alive till at least the next GE.

On the whole though they really annoyed me with their whiney "Nobody told us" and "We had no idea".

Still there is more joy in heaven etc etc.

Only benefit I've seen is duty free. As someone living in an EU country with very high alcohol prices, the big bottles of spirits for 16 euros on the flight home after my last visit to the UK were very nice. Doesn't outweigh the annoyance and hassle of sending and receiving parcels though. Just glad the worst impacts of Brexit don't affect me.

@Natsku Only benefit I've seen is duty free. As someone living in an EU country with very high alcohol prices, the big bottles of spirits for 16 euros on the flight home after my last visit to the UK were very nice.

So someone living in the EU benefits from paying less tax to UK exchequer that could have been spent on the NHS. No dig at you but the irony wants to make me cry...

Get why that makes you want to cry (I'm still going to make the most of it until, hopefully, the UK rejoins)

I don't blame you! Which is more likely first: Customs Union or Single Market?

I reckon Labour's plan is to ignore it till the next GE, win the GE, then get one or other adopted as a manifesto policy mid-term.