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

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

Well sorry to be a lone voice but our rural area has certainly benefited from most of the Eastern European workers going home.

No more drunken men having fights in the streets, reduction in knife crime, women can walk around in peace without being leered at, no more overfull houses of multiple occupation with tenants throwing their stinking rubbish into the front gardens and on to street.

Local shops no longer have to shut early to avoid being patronised by drunks.

Finally we can get the War Memorial fixed - it was vandalised by male workers sharpening their knives on it.

No more depression of wages for those who work on the land.

This is why the East Coast voted overwhelmingly to Leave.

@Ladyintangerine I simply don’t believe your east coast drinking problem has vanished. Pack of lies.

Customs union I reckon

@Natsku I'll go along with that

I hadn't realised that football crowds were mostly made up of Eastern Europeans, you learn something new everyday.

Some people may not believe that Eastern Europeans were making and selling cheap 'bootleg' alcohol on the East Coast....

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2014522/Boston-explosion-kills-5-Broadfield-Lane-Industrial-Estate-used-illegally-distil-vodka.html

Some people did believe that Easter Europeans ate swans. It was a hot topic fifteen years ago.

I heard it was geese.

Come on, an article from 2011 is hardly going to convince me that all your drinking troubles on the East Coast (haha, like we’re talking some holiday destination and not…Lincolnshire) are now over.

Re the swans, are they now Charles’ property?

I like goose. Roast low and slow on a rack and use the fat for your roasties.

@Turefu Some people did believe that Easter Europeans ate swans

Indeed.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1261044/Slaughter-swans-As-carcasses-pile-crude-camps-built-river-banks-residents-frightened-visit-park-Peterborough.html

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2115107/Gang-bludgeon-swan-death-nail-covered-stick-eat-luring-ashore-bread.html

www.standard.co.uk/hp/front/immigrant-was-cooking-swan-amid-bird-bodies-6627412.html

Just to clarify: the East Coast of Scotland did not vote to leave.

@prettybird Just to clarify: the East Coast of Scotland did not vote to leave.

You are correct - my bad. 😊

www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/local-news/police-superintendent-dismisses-claims-asylum-7866387 Here you are from Boston last week: there is no increase in crime due to asylum seekers in town.

@LadyWithLapdog Believe what you like, I've lived among it, you haven't.

People can finally see how incompetent the tories are. Nothing else.

@LadyWithLapdog And you're taking about Asylum Seekers, not migrant workers. Please keep up.

@Ladyintangerine fine. You must be happy now, what with everything being back to how it was since the EE left. I have a feeling you’re still not happy, though, and will find someone else to blame.

@LadyWithLapdog Re the swans, are they now Charles’ property?

I'll treat that as a serious question so, yes, technically, see here; www.nytimes.com/2022/09/15/world/europe/king-charles-swans-queen-elizabeth.html#:~:text=Three%20companies%20are%20still%20permitted,with%20rings%20to%20designate%20ownership.

@LadyWithLapdog You must be happy now, what with everything being back to how it was since the EE left. I have a feeling you’re still not happy, though, and will find someone else to blame.

Well you can feel what you like, I've no control over that !

Some Tory MPs also seem tothink they can feel what they like.

@jgw1 Some Tory MPs also seem tothink they can feel what they like.

Yes, and your point is?

Just a commentary on the state of our representatives in parliament.

@jgw1 Just a commentary on the state of our representatives in parliament.

OK, but not all of our 'representatives in parliament' are Tory, so I don't get your point 🤔

That might be why in my original post on the subject I used the word some.