Can someone give me one benefit of Brexit.

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It's going to be 4 years since we withdrew our membership in European Union. Apart from the passport colour (some people might prefer) can anyone name one positive change which happened since then.

But, being Brexiteers, that isn't the truth is it ?

What they meant was they were quite happy for other people to be worse off - ideally the other people of the "right type" (IYKWIM)

It keeps getting better...

news.sky.com/story/brexit-new-report-suggests-uk-163311bn-worse-off-by-2035-due-to-leaving-eu-13046256?

You won't find that on a big red bus.

@Zonder You won't find that on a big red bus.

Boris Johnson was taken to court over the big red bus, but the case was dismissed.

That the treasury report prepared before the 2016 referendum, which stated the UK’s demise would commence just by a vote to leave and the UK economy wound be trashed by Q3 2018 (even though UK had not left the EU) did not happen, what makes people think that an 11 year forecast is reliable?

@Zonder Oh I would, if only I could think of any real benefits to us as a country.

As per the ONS, unemployment in the UK has reduced since Brexit.

Also, the NHS has received Approx. £180million additional per week since 2019/2020.

Are they not beneficial to the UK as a whole?

The OP did not express any opinion regards replies to their question, but said thanks for the replies.

@Kendodd There was a poll ages ago amoungst Tory party members and along with other things they thought Brexit was worth (including violence returning to NI and the break up of the UK) they said their own children loosing their livelyhoods was a price worth paying.

Can you provide a link for that?

Ha! Someone asked an AI to Generate a graphic that sums up Brexit...

Brilliant!

Someone in the AI wrangling team has slipped up. Although given the Horizon situation, I think the Great British Public is probably better off distrusting computer systems right now. Even (or especially) if they suggest voting Tory ,,,,

@SerendipityJane I think the Great British Public is probably better off distrusting computer systems right now. Even (or especially) if they suggest voting Tory ,,,,

Kier Starmer was the head of CPS when postmasters were wrongly prosecuted. Wonder if he offers to return his Knighthood to say sorry like the head of the post office who returned her CBE?

And you already know that the Post Office has it's own prosecution systems, yet you perpetrated this lie anyway.

How do you sleep at night?

Still more ways that Brexit Britain is winning...

Are you being serious? Did anything else happen between 2018 and 2020 that could impact life expectancy? Anything at all except for Brexit?

And is continuing to fall in the following years. I wonder who's fault that might be?

Don't tell me, Keir Starmer...

I suppose one benefit - albeit unintended - would be the disintegration of the Conservative Party. John Major said if you left two Tories in a room , within 20 minutes they'd be arguing about Europe. They show no signs of stopping.

On the other hand that could lead to the rise of a more overtly far right Party? Because if things are still not wonderful it must be the fault of Someone Else.

What are you thinking of?

I note how if you put a line of best fit across the graph, the trend was level or just slightly upward until 2010. Since then it's been significantly downwards. Now who has been in power since then?

Are you being serious? Did anything else happen between 2018 and 2020 that could impact life expectancy? Anything at all except for Brexit?

It's hard to tell from the graph but it looks as though the negative effect started in 2018 and Covid didn't arrive in the UK until the end of January 2020.

Your slightly creepy obsession with Kier Starmer is frightening the horses.

I suppose one benefit - albeit unintended - would be the disintegration of the Conservative Party.

Now that is a Brexit benefit. Made all the more delicious by the fact that almost all anti-Tories on these threads warned them well in advance that was the price they would pay for accepting the poison chalice. Revenge being a dish etc etc.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/01/13/brexit-prime-suspect-death-london-stock-market/

I sat and watched Mr Bates during the week.
Little people being trampled on by the super rich who pat each other on the back
and its an election year
splendid stuff

Kier Starmer was the head of CPS when postmasters were wrongly prosecuted. Wonder if he offers to return his Knighthood to say sorry like the head of the post office who returned her CBE?

The vast majority of the cases were private prosecutions brought by the Post Office. They were nothing to do with the CPS.

But that comment is so, so typical of Brexiters. Recall when Johnson and cronies were partying like billyo in Downing Street at the height of the Covid lock downs, when they tried to make a song and dance about Keir Starmer having a beer.

Exactly @Peregrina

The prosecutions made by the CPS occurred when Keir Starmer was the head of the CPS. That other prosecutions were made by others does not change that.

US is the richest country in the World, but does not have the highest life expectancy. Figured I can find are:

US 76 for 2021

UK 80 for 2021

EU 81 for 2021

However, within the EU there are large differences by region. Eastern European countries like Bulgaria and Romania are 10 years lower than average for the EU