Brexit two years later: Why the UK is struggling | DW News
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- Almost two years since Britain completed its withdrawal from the European Union, and the UK is still struggling with the fall-out. Promised economic gains have failed to materialize. Britain has missed out on much of the recovery in global trade since the pandemic. And the loss of EU workers has worsened labor shortages in healthcare, hospitality and agriculture. Businesses are also facing higher costs and more red-tape.
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Imagine being surprised that leaving a trade union means loosing the privileges that come with being in the trade union in the first place. It's mental.
"mental" a.k.a. "British".
@@wolcek Nah, could have happened to any other country with a right-wing populist party as well.
@@thomaskositzki9424 what happens when politicians want to win no matter what. And when people vote in politicians who have no business anywhere within 100m of any government office.
Imagine having to pay for the right to trade, oh yes that's what the UK did with it's membership. Nothing 'Free Trade' about it....
they probably forgot that half of the world is no longer their colonies so they cannot force on them buying their goods like that did in XIX century...
"We did want to be ourselves again". How was being part of the EU not allowing the English to be English? The EU let them keep the British Pound and not use the Euro. They still lived on their island and still had the monarchy. I just don't understand how leaving the EU made them more British.
“We did want to be ourselves again” = “we didn’t want those other people here”
She sounded like Anne Widdecombe 🤣😂
@@victoriajenkins1424 it sounds like they wanted laborers in the workforce but didn't want them having rights. Just people that came, did their job and then disappeared.
Didn't want them to stay but also didn't want them taking their wages back home and spending them there.
@@victoriajenkins1424 Yes, you didn't want to see the other people here, but with so many of your countrymen on a "deserved" benefit lifestyle who will work for that?
It was the army of EU workers bringing to your country huge extra money taken by Taxes to support your state-benefit lifestyle, and it's now cut significantly alongside workers shortages in any UK industry...so when do you suppose yourself to feel the pain of Brexit?
@@RichardHofman333 No pain. You are talking rubbish.
Brexit was the first time a nation imposed economic sanctions on itself.
It was a clownshow the entire time, two years of better comedy than watching The Office. I think it even beat the Trump presidency in the US 🤡
😂😂
@@maximusasauluk7359 I don't know. Trump vs Brexit is a tough call.
North Korea… perhaps? 😂
@@mhm9868 "Unelected officials"
You mean Liz Truss?
What bothers me a lot is that there are many older people that are for Brexit. Let's be honest, they will be gone in 20-30 years while the younger generations have to deal with the long term negative consequences of Brexit. Not to mention, the older generations are retired, they are not in the work market anymore, of course many will say it has not affected their lives much.
This is a silly arguement. Are you saying that no-one over the age of 14 should be allowed to vote ?
@@terryhoath1983 I am not even going to try to understand how you managed to interpret my comment in that way lol
Yes.Older people tend to be in their own bubbles if they are not connected to the younger generations on a regular basis. So I think the years are not the problem but the lifestyle of some
i am 72 and voted to stay in the eu as i realised our government and the papers lied to us. the french are laughing like a drain as we are paying them for sending us the illegal immigrants that they want rid of.
Because most of my family are American citizens now, I'm more concerned with the other great impulsive screw-up of the 2010s. I will say, however, that this seems to be a common thread between them: older people who, out of some daft existential dread, have suddenly chosen to channel their inner Ebenezer Scrooge (as in Scrooge before the Ghosts of Christmas had a word with him).
I'm a Malaysian working in Singapore. Both countries are in the Commonwealth and have millions of investment in the UK, but most if not all of them were prior to Brexit. This was due to the familiarity of the language, laws, culture and much more due to being former colonies of the British. In short, we were used to the British and found it easier to invest in the UK because of that, and as a gateway into the EU. Post-Brexit, businesses here are concentrating on investments in the EU directly, and bypassing the UK, despite the different legal systems and languages. Oh, and Malaysia and Singapore are part of ASEAN (Association of South-East Asia Nations), which aspires to integrate their economies like the EU.
As for the Brexiter's dream or aspiration of becoming a Singapore-on-Thames, well, Singaporeans are more pragmatic and realistic than Brexiters. They had to be in order to create the modern and successful Singapore that Brexiters want to emulate. Ask them if they want to exit ASEAN or exit the EU if they were part of it, the answer would be a resounding NO.
Almost everybody here that I talked to about Brexit thought that it was financial and business suicide for the British. And most if not all, put it down to the UK harking back to the days of the British Empire. It wasn't helped by the fact that many Brexiter politicians and businessmen thought that the Commonwealth and the World would gladly trade with the UK on an individual basis. Why should they? And what advantage is there to trading with the UK when it is not a gateway into the EU? Business is business, and it would always look at the bottom line. Brexiters seemed to have forgotten that, or totally ignored it altogether. And with the recent news from the IMF that the UK is the only major economy expected to shrink in 2023, as well as to do worse than Russia (which is heavily sanctioned by the world and fighting a war in the Ukraine) in 2023, well, so much for Brexit!
Take it from me, kind sir. Do not ever aspire to emulate the EU. Their democratic record and autocracy are nothing to be proud of. You do your thing, and let them carry on with theirs, and the way they are going at the moment, if they do not buck their ideas up, they will be but a faded memory in future years, while organisations like the CPTPP will keep right on growing and getting ever stronger.
@@lesskeels3417 what is wrong with the eu? It is tanks to them things have been do good in Europe. Thank the Eu for all these laws for food, safety and worker protections. Now that the Uk left the eu their greedy politicians want to repeal many of these protections. The Eu prevents corrupt governments from just taking all these protections away
offtopic: As an Austrian, I've been to Singapore, four years ago.
What an absolutely incredible city! I was deeply impressed.
(although it was almost TOO clean :D )
@@lesskeels3417 take it from you, who loose so many things because of Brexit? Lol no, maybe we will take it from france or maybe Germany instead
@@licas3214 Germany is now deep in recession and France is not that far behind them, and so are Holland and Greece. What do you think the poxy EU are, some magical fairyland where everyone lives happily ever after? Stop reading Aesop's fables and start reading some of the modern European papers, like the Frankfurter Allgemeine or Le Monde.
As long as you have something, you only realize the disadvantages. The advantages you realize when you lost it.
So true...
The ol’ you don’t know what you have until you lose it.
There were plenty of people fully aware how bad it would be.
@@88mphDrBrown but only 49%. It's plenty, but not enough
That is only true so long as you remain stubbornly ignorant. If anyone had read the treaties they wanted out of then it was easy to see the consequences ahead of time.
I have left the UK year ago. I moved back to Poland. I got my critical surgery here, after that found a job paying the same money as I had in the UK but with half of the cost of living. Sad - UK was my home for 9 years. Seeing that decline was saddening me. Still love the people from UK. Hope it will get better soon
@@B-A-L oh they will. And you will have to clean your own hotel room, pick up fruit and veg from the field and learn how to do plumbing. Good luck!
I'm sorry you had to leave the UK and I hope one day we can rectify this mistake and welcome back our European friends.
So you jumped ship when it suited you rather than help build a country? Selfish
I mean, didn't 52% vote for building up that country? Hope they stay and have fun with that process
@@B-A-L Why? We have a skills shortage right now. Why make people unwelcome when all it does is hurt this country?
Love the country lived there for many years, worked hard paid all my taxes, had a good life, but I got the msg they don't want us (immigrants) there any longer, so packed my bags and said goodbyes wishing you all good luck.
Fizeste muinto bem is ingleses julgão se melhor que ninguem agora que se resolvão Eu aqui no Canada tamben se encontra alguns assim❤️
I'm not sure it was meant to eject you from the country (vs. prevent further EU immigration), but now that it has, hope you're enjoying your new life?
Don't blame you, the whole campaign was won on an anti immigrant message. I voted Remain but am disappointed and apologetic about the whole disasterous vote.
@@andrewharrison8436 Do you think Ukraine would still be fighting for its freedom if the UK was still in the EU??...
If you enjoyed living their I'm sad to hear you left because of percieved views of the ignorant. Your own happiness is more important and shouldnt be dictated by others opinions.
Britain is one of the more open-minded countries. While a percentage of the population is anti-immigrant, that's true of any country. Theres also many people that dont harbor such views.
Sadly with each passing day we can see the impact this awful policy has had on the UK. Tied up in red tape and tariffs with lower GDP than before the pandemic whilst the others in the G7, including Italy, are above.
The lower GDP means we do not have the headroom to pay our way in the world and must resort to borrowing.Whilst there are rich people in the UK; a great many of us are poor and now we are poorer still.
What steps can we take to generate more income during quantitative adjustment?I can't afford my hard-earned £600k savings to turn to dust
@Tomcrivich She is well-known in her industry; you may have heard of her before I did thanks to a Newsweek article. You can look her up online.
We in the UK didn't get Brexit done, Brexit got us done.
The news and the tory party didn't mention how much of that money we got back in grants and funding for farmers etc
There was so much mss information at that time, all the news showed was people getting on lorries to enter the UK that helped the tories with there plan of ruining the UK
Thats no problem of the EU anymore.
Talk to british politicians.
The british people wanted out, they got out.
As far as I see, the only ones complaining now are the british people.
Most of us members of the EU moved on.
@elipa3 I didn't want out, the results of the referendum was close not alot in it they won with a slight majority with the misinformation from the government and news
EU and many economy experts tried hard to warn people of the negative impact ,but few listened.
My country (Ireland) which is their closest neighbour and they still occupy part of our island TOLD THEM for YEARS what would happen. The ignorance of their politicians is astounding. Some of their leading politicians didn't understand that only a small part of Ireland is part of the UK (and we'll take that back 100%!). They don't like foreigners after invading most of the world, ironic.
What could be bad leadership
48% did 52 % didn't but many low paid low skilled workers in the North of England misunderstood what Brexit would do to their prospects and the health service.
yes, some preferred freedom.
@Greg There shouldn't be any immigrants until the majority have reasonable housing prices. How is that even controversial?
Thank you Boris thank you nigel., for all this
Actually it was DAVID CAMERON who started all this....and please google his father...sad !
@@MakeSomeNoisePlaylists Yes he made a pledge to stage a referendum in 2015 election after being pressured by the boris wing of the party then in ' 16 he did so
@@MakeSomeNoisePlaylists No, David Cameron resigned because of this
@@slabbygabby He resigned the next day after he lost the referendum
The public did not truly understand Brexit before the vote
What a shame
As someone who voted to remain in the EU I literally cried when they said we were out and I had nothing but abuse by friends and in the end kept silent. They are now the same ones saying it was a mistake, well duh 🙄
I can’t imagine the EU would ever want the UK back and even if it was to happen it would be as a junior or lower partner as we have proven to be unreasonable. Very sad indeed and something that should have never been given the vote for.
It doesn't really make much difference one way or another.
@@grahamt5924 Sure, Britain was already kind of irrelevant, so seeing it sink further into irrelevance is not a big deal, I guess.
As a Belgian with much sympathy for the British I find it especially sad for the younger generations who voted mainly remain. Their future is compromised.
In 10 or 15 years when more of younger generation will be able to vote and (I hope) politician keeping the power will change and will have very pro-european views... I suppose that UK will be back in the EU.
Scotland and Wales will be welcomed back.
I remember when Brexiteers said: they need us more than we need them. Maybe something gone wrong?
'Hubris comes before the fall...'
They bought their own hype. They were never a "founding member" of the union - they were latecomers, bickering bratty ones at that. They shot themselves in the foot and expect the EU health card to take care of their treatment 😂 you left the club, you lick your own wounds!
@@MrSparklespring Let's hope the fall is soon. 2022 was the highest immigration into the UK on record. How do we get the message across that we are a sinking ship? On the other hand, have you seen the unemployment in Spain and Portugal and the economy of Italy...? Maybe the EU isn't the boomtown they would have us believe.
Lady said “we wanted to be ourselves, again!” 😂
Well done 😅
Its british version of "make America great again", those slogans are similar becuase its the main slogan of social specialists and it means same for people across the world: "we will be young again". And this succedded because society is old not because it is reasonable.
This is not the end of the world for the UK. They got the freedom that they wanted, and I wish them all the best. They are still a friendly country.
Friendly in terms of?
correct we were here before 1973 too
People were warned of the economic fallout, they didn’t listen and now they are facing the results after voting to leave. No country can stand alone anymore, it isn’t feasible economically or socially. Maybe the UK’s superiority complex overrode the simple maths it took to work out that it was better off in than out.
The older generation reaped the benefits and it's the rest of us who are picking up the high prices
There are no benefits unless you happen to have a lot of money parked offshore.
Did they even?
The British wanted it that way, now they have to live with the consequences.
I didn’t.
I had to leave the country as did many productive people.
Remember the words "I'd rather be poor and independent" Well you've got what you wished for
And free!!!!
I can see the NHS is doing very well with all this extra post Brexit funding as was promised
UK growth is higher than Germany's
UK's FDI is higher than Germany
UK unemployment is lower than France
UK inflation is lower than a lot of Europe.
the question is why is the EU Struggling
It was never about prosperity or sovereignty. It was about self-interest and devision
Listing what went right would be easier.
Brexit and Nigel Mirage have helped to destroy this economy. All those involved must be brought to justice
Throw 52% of the people in jail?
Just wait ten years and they’ll come crawling back having wasted unbelievable amounts of resources leaving
I'll give it 20 - five years to decide we need to realign our trading relationship, another five to realise we need the Customs Union, five more for free movement another five to recognise we might as well have a seat at the table.
@@TheHookahSmokingCaterpillar Yeah well,.. I think there are some other issues to settle first as well within the EU. Britain will probably have to change quite a bit first before it could apply and the current looting muppets the UK has for government keep poisoning the well.
@@TheHookahSmokingCaterpillar though there are 3 choices - EU membership, EFTA, or out. You can't join the customs union without being in the EU, and you must be in the EU or EFTA to join the single market. You also cannot join the single market without allowing freedom of movement.
@@grassytramtracks You are quite right, I was thinking of the Customs Union, but meant EFTA.
So there are no benefits from Brexit GB is having now?
Or why are none mentioned in this clip?
GB wanted their cake and eat it too. People were too uninformed to understand they had that as part of the EU. Nobody has really explained what it means to be a 3rd country to them.
The consequences have been explained countless times but they often have been swept away by naming them "project fear". When people decide about important matters, are gullible and fall for cheap slogans instead of doing some research this can be the result. One more proof that education matters.
Brexit voters indeed think like this.
But remember they only 26% of population
Old lady: "We did want to be ourselves again, really"
UK economy: *crashes*
...nice job!
The irony is she'll probably be gone in a few years while her vote's repercussions will continue for decades.
She probably just waking up from hibernation from '50, doesn't realize yet it's not British Empire anymore, not even Great Britain, country really small compared to the former glory ... it's just United Kingdom.
@@esparda07 This. Unfortunately the young people that wanted to remain will have to pay for decades due to the xenophobia, racism and ignorance of the boomers that won't have to live long with the consequences of their own choices.
@S The British economy can also go in a new direction, as in down, without the EU viewing British as blockers to their ideals. Have fun!
Do the Brits really think they can go "sorry, my bad" and the EU would be falling over themselves to welcome them back?
I don't see any why any country would seriously oppose.
Hungary, Slovakia and Poland?
of course they can … 1) it is a very good promotion for the E.U 2) Europe have better avantages UK to be strong 3) we are friends … UK can join the E.U back easily as the organisation is already based on E.U rules …. BUT you will be obliged to leave the pound and to get in the Shengen zone …. i use to work with English … the first things i have always tell them is that they will be back in 20 years
The Brits cut off their noses to spite their faces
A middle finger to their rulers.
@@50_Pence oh yeah! Ukip is a bastion of fair play and fairness. Bollocks mate
@@valmach even if ukip were taken out of the picture and you gave the UK 'a way' to show their feelings to people in power - I think you'd get a lot of votes. Now mix back in ukip, advertising and Cambridge Analitica. Job done.
Don't worry we have our teeth to distract from that.
@@Robert-cu9bm Do-Tell, Do Tell
"I shot both you and me in the foot. feel sorry for me"
I found this video when I looked up the definition of “schadenfreude” and there was nothing but a link to this
Dw is a prostitution network..
I must say, thank you UK!. Here in the Netherlands there was also some internal discussion to leave the EU/Nexit... Nothing really major though.
But now the whole discussion is gone!
Glad to hear it.
Ah dam... almost 2 birds with 1 stone
The British made a big mess of brexit no European country will even thing about it
At least UK’s sacrifice was worth something to someone
So glad our sacrifice was worth all the hardship - 'taking one for the team' 'pour encourager les autres' mon ami.
You cut yourself from a market and you expect things to become better? Genius.
yep, because by leaving a small cartel you have the market of the rest of the planet open to you. it's called genius.
@@duncansmith7562 have you seen where the UK is on the map
@@duncansmith7562 A real genius then
You'll find eu countries trade with countries outside the EU as well and the uk in order to protect its own manufacturing base will have to apply its own rules in trade deals many of which you will find are little different to the EU ..
That said they might also mess that up giving the other countries an advantage example Australia/ NZ ..
I don't know maybe you are being sarcastic or just clueless
@@ronnie5329 i have indeed. have you seen where China is on the map?
@@let0atreides indeed it is
There is one major thing that went right with Brexit. Movements to leave the EU that existed in Italy, the Netherlands, Denmark, and other EU countries all fizzled after observing the British experience.
in Italy Italexit party got 1% of votes. Thank You Great Britain!
@@enigman1931not so “great” Britain anymore.
Here in Denmark many people still want to leave the Union.... And you can't explain that if we leave EU the Brexit way is not the way to do it .
The only thing Britain did wrong with Brexit, was allow it to happen
@@markblance8492 My perhaps garbled understanding is that many voted for Brexit as a form of protest with the expectation that it wouldn't actually pass.
The irony is also that the UK now suffers from laws that apply to third countries wanting to import into the European market, which the UK insisted on introducing when they were a member of that market.
Irony, defined.
To be honest, for me there is a little Schadenfreude in it 🤭
Karma 😍
@@MeinenNamenSagIchNicht more than 48% of the country knew it was a bad idea. even more know it now but were all stuck with the consequences.
It was also the nation that in insisted on enforcing rules that now effectively locked themselves out of Galileo’s Public Regulated Service (The means to use Galileo - the EU's version of GPS[satnav]) for missile guidance. There was a plan to spend 3-5 billion £ on making their own alternative but it got scrapped (thankfully.. that's a lot of money that the UK does not have).
But hey at least the NHS is getting all those millions that were promised right? Oh wait they're on strike for not getting paid enough uhhh.
Hopefully in a decade or two (and about a thousand prime ministers later at this rate) they'll just admit stupidity and rejoin.
I'll correct my statement. They removed themselves from a market of 450,000,000 people. How is going it alone a good idea?
Well, when certain members of the "club" (sic) gang up on you at cast-your-votes time and veto you some 70+ times over 47 years, well wouldn't you start to think that maybe this set-up wasn't really working in your favour after all? That's why Brexit happened. Because enough of us thought likewise.
Eu is 450 million. Europe population is 700m, not every country in Eu.
The UK can now become a paradise for the rich
@@MultiLimpetI wish….! Too many none workers to allow that to happen. Watch Labour drive the coni y further down the rabbit hole. Whilst screwing those working for more tax
No way? Putting up trade barrier hurts the economy!? Who would have known.
Covid hurt the economy, not Brexit. Britain paid its workers to stay at home and now we have to pay for that. The UK unemployment rate is now down to the same level as Germany's. Stop interviewing bosses who lost their cheap labour and start interviewing young Brits who never had a job before because they couldn't compete with EU nationals who were four years older and happy to work for the same money. Go to Spain and ask teenagers there what it's like trying to find work!
lol
The problem is the British people actually think they are more important than anyone else in the world. That British Exceptionalism .
Free movement for 20yrs hurts the economy.who would have known
@@andyjordan79 how does free movement hurt the economy? Encourages migration and allows ease of access to new markets
They listened to rich people,
and rich people screwed them.
Go figure.
I'm pretty sure John at the local pub isn't rich people. All the rich people were heavily pushing against Brexit, STEVE.
Megarich people are only interested in protecting their offshore tax havens. Everything and everybody else are expendable.
Thailand based crypyocurrency/aviation investor Chris Harborne donated £13.7m to the Brexit Party. Chemical investor Jim Radcliff moved to tax free Monaco and switched his proposed car manufacturing plant from Wales to France. James Dyson changed his mind about manufacturing his electric car in Britain and then talked about Singapore. Insurance tycoon Arron Banks, Peter Hargreaves financial services, Anthony Bamford JCB, Frederick and David Barclay, and John Caudwell phones4u are some of the billionaires who backed Brexit as they wanted less regulation/ oversight on their investments.
@@BigBoiTurboslav That was xenophobia. Rich people wanted Brexit to keep EU rules away from London banks.
@@michaeladkins6 Yes. Right in the middle.
Some of the people in UK thought that a union is a bad thing.
They forgot they live in a Union and they are vehemently opposed to its dissolution.
Uk left a union because they didn't want others deciding what they can and can't do.
And Scotland wants to leave for the exact same reason.
@@Robert-cu9bm Seeing the childish behavior and yelling in the UK parlament its probably a good idea to let someone else decide for them.
@@bamfyfe I now regularly watch on RUclips videos of PMQs for a dose of comedic entertainment.
@@Robert-cu9bm Scotland wants to leave the UK so they can rejoin the EU.
@Vale Visa you’re hilarious, the daily life of average people remains completely unchanged. We didn’t like certain things about the EU like freedom of movement, the imposition of laws without our citizens being able to vote out the EU commissioners who propose them and the fact that when we joined the EU it was just a trading bloc. Now it has a flag and a bloody anthem while providing military support. I love Europe and our neighbours, the whole country does, we just didn’t like what the EU had become and were prepared to accept and financial consequences. The shortage of EU labour is a null point in the long term because for years freedom of movement created an unlimited supply of labour, suppressing wage growth
I mean, every single person with a working brain and some common sense saw from a mile away that this was a terrible idea.
That makes no difference in England, the eegits still believe privatising all their essential services was a good idea even though we are swimming in sewage now.
@Grunyit MacQuethal Thats why so many unions are striking.
Can anyone explain the noise at 2:19?
@grunyitmacquethal5519guess why the inflation is happening
@DonaldMacDonald944this comment makes me feel smarter 😭😭😭
Nothing went "wrong". Everything, from the loss of GDP to shortages to increased red tape, to increased immigration, to UK's requirement to implement regulations and standards it has no say in, to the EU having its way in everything, it all went exactly as predicted by everyone who had a clue. Living in lalaland and then finding out that reality is something entirely different isn't things going wrong.
Red tape? No sellotape
Really well said, thank you!
I am American. What were the REASONS STATED by the leavers for leaving?
There HAD to be some NEGATIVE THING (real or imaginary) that the leavers wanted to reduce or stop
and some POSITIVE THING (real or imaginary) that the leavers wanted to gain.
Did the leavers ACHIEVE these things by leaving?
The UK complained that it was supporting other EU members for nothing, wanted out, and got what it wanted. Things couldn't be any better, right?
We will be fine.
British people like a little something called democracy. You continentals should check it out, it's actually quite nice. We like people who we vote for to make our laws for accountability. Hard concept to understand I know
@@shingetsu10 nobody complaining
@@shingetsu10 Really ! With an unelected head of state and a fourth unelected PM .(By the way,democracy is an old Greek concept,unlike racism that is so deeply rooted in the British mind )
@@shingetsu10 Lmao thanks for the parties and tea Boris!
As an American living in England (over 30 years) I always said " Be careful what you wish for. You might get it." The UK was given misinformation by the likes Nigel Farrange and overs. A Conservative MP had the gall to say in a interview " It's to early to tell if the break with the EU has effected the UK negatively. "
Don't sugar coat it, not misinformation, they were blatant lies.
So I remember one of your Presidents came over and stuck his nose in saying we should stay in the EU. I wonder what would have happened to his election chances if, for example, he had said a foreign unelected court should overrule the US Supreme Court or a foreign civil service gave the US laws it had to obey? Grief! you are not even a member of the ICC, I suggest you don't comment on my country's affairs especially as you obviously know nothing about them.
racist baskets wanted it...not one is now standing up and says it was best thing that happened to uk.... the baskets now deserve all they get
@@fooballers7883 RUBBISH. My wife comes from the island of Mauritius (Indian Ocean) and even she does not like some of the things the EU force on its members, so please tell me how "racist" that is? I think Mauritius does have some (very slender) ties with the EU, notably re its sugarcane industry, but like the Swiss & the Norwegians, they've got the good sense to keep the EU at a distance and run their own country, well it does belong to them, does it not?
Oh it has very clearly affected them negatively even a year ago.
Sadly here in the UK Brexit is still a very toxic subject. Brexit voters simple will not accept the damage it has done. Recent polling now shows the majority of voters regret it. Sadly that isn't the same as wanting to rejoin. However I fear the EU wouldn't have us back anyway. Honestly who could blame them?
Who knows how long the EU will last. Wait and see.
The EU would let the UK back in. I don't think there's any question about that. However, the UK would probably have to apply for membership the same as a completely new applicant, which means that they most likely wouldn't get the opt-outs that they had back in the day.
@@Tuppoo94 The EU is just fine thank you and I cant imagine they would want you back.
@@michaeladkins6 Why do you think I'm not from the EU?
@@ClingyParasite are u kidding? lol nobody wants u back nobody even talks about it. we are laughing at you.
This is why big stuff needs a 2/3 majority. With a simple majority decisions can flip-flop around a single vote.
I mean, it was only an advisory referendum, not an actual vote. The government was under no obligation to go along with the result. They absolutely could have said "2% is too slim a margin, we aren't making a huge change based on that".
Does that include general elections? BUT IT WAS MADE CLEAR """""BEFORE"""""THE BREXIT VOTE WAS ALL ABOUT WINNER WINS ,IF REMOANERS HAD WON BY 1 VOTE WOULD THEY AGREE IT WAS WRONG.REMOANERS NEED TO GET REAL THEY LOST!.
@@HeadsFullOfEyeballs NO it was NOT ADVISORY!
It's enough to require that 50% of voters cast their vote for the referendum to be valid. In this way a simple majority can still change a law (but only if they show up at the ballot box) and a minority cannot profit from abstentionism.
@@colinwishbone4437 referendums are advisory and it was not legally binding. You need to learn more about how the laws of our country work.
The UK is like a cat standing by the door meowing and screaming, let me out, let me out, let me out. And when you open the door it just stands there in the doorway, for I don't know, what felt like years, like it's trying to make up it's mind before finally getting out.
And after a short while it starts to whine again for being outside...
This is startlingly accurate.
Reminds me of my Cat, loves his independence and individuality but comes home for food.
Can't hunt to save his life lol 😂
Boo Hoo, I voted a thing which had a thousand warnings it would be awful.
Made your bed, now lay in it.
The old lady going “oooh!” As the old man says “it’s been an absolute disaster” made me laugh so hard😂😂😂
the same woman said before: "...we want to be ourselves again, really..." 🤕
@@MakeSomeNoisePlaylists Typical old British puritanical grandmas.
My Mum is 82, voted not to join in 1975, but voted to remain in 2016.
Quite British indeed
She was astonished, flabbergasted, bamboozled to say the least.
leaving the EU is dumb enough, but also leaving the single market is just ridiculous. I don't think enough people appreciate just how easy it is to trade inside the single market. I've had to replace a longtime British supplier, i'm not dealing with all the extra paperwork, custom fees, VAT refunds etc.
Most people don't deal with it so they wouldn't know.
Those people who do did a bad job of explaining it to them.
@@TheWebstaff yeah you're probably right. I just think it is really sad it had to be like this...
@@TheWebstaff Those people did know and have since 1870. Generations in parts of England come and gone with economically challenged regions. This is decades before Farage and Johnson turned up. None of the metropolitan media really ever bothered to find out.
The woke Blob of some remainers were out of touch and thought everyone in poor regions wanted to go on Erasmus Plus schemes, get low-paid bar work in Paris or queue-free airport experience.
Because they arrogantly thought their views were the only ones that matter and just said "Leavers" MUST have been lied to or duped. The opposite is true. They had received little help and saw with Eastern Expansion they'd get less! Don't have to be Sherlock Holmes to figure out they opted for "Leave".
I agonized but voted "Remain". Unlike those that tried to overturn I accepted it. That's democracy. The furore in Parliament desperate though it was has seen the most important constitutional change since 1660. The people not the politicians or the courts call the shots. That has become established. For the first time in history the Government and Parliament have enacted legislation most of them opposed.
@@English_Dawn I've never understood the cruelty in UK politics. The Iron woman put loads of people on the streets, seemingly for fun. When Eastern Europeans were allowed to work in other countries, the UK immediately gave them access, harvesting unemployment. Meanwhile, other countries took time to prepare and slowly grew access, reducing the pain of their own workers. The EU gets the blame for these cruel UK political choices. Cambridge Analytica was a gamechanger too, spreading lies by precision targeting through "social" media.
@@English_DawnMaking an uninformed decision is just another mistake.
How wise is to take such a life changing decision like leaving EU based on a very slim ,,majority " ?
The outcome would have been different if the voters would have a real understanding of what they was voting for instead of having an opinion based on the shower of lies they was subjected to .
Ultimately all go down to the fact that UK (sic) , actually England , used to have an empire where they dictate , being in the EU and equal to France and Germany regarding decision-making was frustrating .
The EU is far from being democratic , but the UK is even further away .
I am a Spanish worker in the UK and sadly I will be leaving the UK shortly. I work for a Spanish company that is moving back to Spain a lot of the operations because of Brexit. It really breaks my heart after so many years here...
Good luck to you. Moving back to my own country was honestly one of the better decisions I've made. My quality of life went up significantly. But I undedtand it might be different in Spain.
All the best to you
@@uhwake same as everywhere. A bunch are and and a bunch aren't.
Good. Adios. A house for an English family.
@@michaelsrowland lol, good luck finding developers with my experience :), by the way, my BRITISH wife and my BRITISH kids are coming with me to the sunny Spain :).
@@DrPizza-mn6kk de donde eres? Yo soy del nord de itali, oì que muchos enfermeros italianos y ibericos han dejado NHS regresando en sus paìs. Tambien muchos medicos dejaron Uk mudandose en otros paises como Alemania o Paises Bajos
Declining empires, in disbelief of their fall from grace, always look to blame anything but themselves. Often, it's the immigrants or a minority group. In the case of the UK, it was the EU. The mental gymnastics required to blame the EU for the UK's sense of decline must've been something to behold.
It was mate i had ring side seat and it would have been funny if it wasnt so sad.
@Grunyit MacQuethal Only small, irrelevant countries enjoy that kind of "sovereignty" owing to not being deemed worthy enough of treaties and alliances. Otherwise, every self-respecting country accepts certain limitations and obligations which naturally come with accords.
Enjoy your right to be irrelevant and inconsequential.
@grunyitmacquethal5519I’m leaning France.
@grunyitmacquethal5519ok then give back everything u have in ur museums hehe
A man's just gotta know his limitations
Scotland overwhelmingly voted to stay in the EU, yet they must suffer just like England and Wales who voted to leave. Totally unfair to Scotland, they deserve better.
Scotland should be allowed to stay in the EU as an independent country. The only reason Scotland even ended up as part of the English crown is because the first Queen Elizabeth died without children.
That was a long effing time ago.
Exactly if scotland voted to leave the union they would of been in EU by now without going same experience as England n wales
It was a Scotsman named Cameron who invented Brexit
Scotland voted for the EU twice. In 2014 and 2016.
They had the chance for independence but I believe the younger generation felt more like 1 being a European. Yeah well...
People were told before the vote that it was a terrible idea but they voted for it anyway due to prejudice and xenophobia. I have a friend who had a wine importation business. He voted to make life more expensive and difficult for himself with no upside. Sounds sensible to me!
your comment is one of the few i've seen which addmited that xenophobia and prejudice was the main factor. I am tired to read the whole "ohhh but not all of them were racists, they were conned" kinda bs. My problem is, even if they are no racists they obviously had no problem with the racism surrounding the brexit campaign. Racism was clearly no dealbreaker as long as they got alleged package deal of "getting back control."
The E.U. was sold as an economic union that is what we joined, and the elites tried to make it a political union which we didn't get to vote on and that's why we voted out, give everybody in Europe the vote and see what happens to the E.U., but they will make every effort to stop it, the U.K. has been hampered recently due to COVID (Where the E.U. tried to give us a hard time over vaccines due to their incompetence) and mainland Europe crashing our energy market so further independence is required, and we will be energy independent by 2030-2035 not so Germany who will have bigger problems going forward and if we relied on them to lead the support of Ukraine, Russia would be on the Polish border by now threatening them, Europe can join our economic union in the future but the E.U. is dead, ask Hungary!?!
@@hakanozaslan9571 They were easily conned because they were predisposed to xenophobic arguments.
@@thomasherrin6798 you do understand that Hungry lied to get into the EU? They and Turkey never met the requirements to join, they just hired a European living in America to make it appear they did on paper. 😂😂
@@croaker6099 The same way scammers scam people on internet, they tell them what they want to hear not what they need to
Membership £350M a week
Economic benefits £2,000M a week
Brits: "We want out!"
I think we need to find a different name for the people that voted for Brexit, I was not one of them and just to put that in to some kind of perspective I was a teacher at the time of Brexit and I know only 3-4 people that voted for this. And the people that voted for Brexit pretend they didn’t and lie. The shame level around Brexit is huge. The fisheries who were too dumb to know they were being finessed switched their view and voted for Brexit and it’s groups like this that permanently ruined this country, the worst part is these groups have such a small effect on the country and yet they had the biggest voice, under educated (most of them don’t even hold a basic qualification) and yet they were allowed to define our future. The politicians who aimed at these groups knew they were taking advantage of dumb people with no actual understanding of what was being proposed.
Xenophobia is a powerful drug.
Two thousand million is just 2 billion mush.
Plus of course that was never our membership fee in the first place, that was just a straight lie like all the other pro-Brexit claims ("unelected", laws they force on us, freedom of movement claims etc).
Less money is better than to have foreigners threaten your country’s future, identity and safety.
What did the world learn? Don't let conservatives isolate your country while blaming their woes on other countries
Leaving the largest free trade area in the world was never a good idea. Education, education, education......
That's what Bliar said. sent everyone on bullshine university courses. No plumbers, carpenters or bricklayers
Excuse me. The United States is a union of states. We have free trade, but each State defines murder differently. Comparisons of US to FRA are disingenuous, it should be EU to USA; FRA to California; Delaware to Montenegro.
That's right education is the priority
@Zeni Myftari but tabloid press have a lot to answer for and not sure there's enough education to counter this poison.
You’re reducing the EU to a free trade area
Even as someone from Southeast Asia, we know this is the dumbest move. Ever heard of ‘’team work makes the dream work’’?
Before explaining how this went wrong DW should explain how this could have possibly gone right.
Yes I read it for the first time today on free condoms packet at my universitety. Im in sweden by they way🤣🤣🤣
@@hypothalapotamus5293 that would have been the work of brexit promoters. Looks like they failed as the realtime experiment shows.
Except that it’s not team work . You get told what to do , what to think . The Eu is a farce
@@mariapalmer5671 who told you that?
Even when UK was in European Union, they didn't accept us completely. They keep the pound as their coin, not Euro, and if you went to UK being member of EU you be treatened as a foreigner people, showing your passport on airport controls. I feel sorry for young british people who will has to move on his country harder because a decision of a lot of people that has their labour lives done.
They were a founding member, and gemrnay and France were very eager to guarantee peace in Europe
That's because you confuse the EU with the Schengen area and the Eurozone. Some countries are members of all 3, while others are not.
@@ayoCC No.
In 1951, six countries founded the European Coal and Steel Community, and later, in 1957, the European Economic Community and the European Atomic Energy Community, which is now known as the European Union.
Belgium
Germany
France
Italy
Luxembourg
the Netherlands
I don't. They had a choice and didn't vote.
The only good thing about Brexit is that it presents a great example of what not to do, in case anyone else was wondering.
The British decided they didn't want to pay the club dues. After they left, they decided they wanted to be able to go into the club house to sell their stuff ( like the club house needed British stuff) . They found that the club wouldn't let them sell their stuff in the club without proper manufacturing regulations (safety protocols)( protecting their citizens from faulty or unsafe products). The British are the only ones who believe in British exceptionalism, everyone else obeys the rules of the house when you are visiting or decide to live in the house.
Trade between nations isn't a clubhouse. If consumers in Germany want to buy UK goods they should be able to with a minimum of EU interference, it only hurts those consumers. Obviously the dude's cheese is the same now as it was before; why the extra red tape? Welll, because the EU is a protectionist bloc and a democracy deficient political entity.
Very good comparison for those who still don‘t get it
48% of the British knew it. now we're all stuck with it.
Brits didnt want brownies into their countries via Merkel's diversity quotas. Apparently it didnt make any difference lol.
Please remember this only applies to 52%, a lot of us thought it was idiotic all along
The British believed life would be better off by isolating themselves, that strengthening legal and procedural barriers with other countries would make it easier for them to do business with other countries, that isolated self-sufficiency rather than federation would lead to economic development, Do you believe that withdrawing from a large community will expand your scope of economic activities? Do you believe that making yourself smaller will enable you to compete politically and economically with major powers such as China, the United States, and Russia? An isolated United Kingdom will be more influential? …populism has hit Britain so hard that I am very pessimistic about the judgment and IQ of the people, if this is democracy for all
The UK government didn't do just laws.
I think one of the most important things for countries is investing in all regions equality. A dollar to a poor person is going to have exponentially more effect than a dollar to a rich person.
A poor person will create a more dynamic economy by spending the dollar and creating the virtuous cycle of money multiplier effect where a dollar in the economy can have 10x the value. While the rich person will sit on the dollar for years.
In Germany rich regions were taxes 5% more and it was invested in poor regions. It created a systematic and lawful way that each region would catch up and stand on their own feet.
Redistribution on union level still exists and the USA does it too.
Each union member gets money equal to its citizens.
It's for the greater good, and the more wealthy people we produce in a country, the more we can benefit from the wealth effect, meaning that people spend on what they want to support ethically.
I don't care anymore
That is like a rich guy leaving America to lichtenstein to do business because of taxes.
Same as ever, the British wanted to European cake and eat it too... This cheese maker feels betrayed (meaning he probably voted leave) but was he supposed to continue selling his cheeses in Europe with minimum taxes and no red tape? Well, it's time for a few reality checks...
Bingo... !
"What went right" would be a much shorter video
Lmao true
Would there be anything to put in it?
Same here in Holland. Chaos is it.
I used to order stuff from UK all the time. Since Brexit I have ordered ZERO things. Everything is now 20% more expensive and prices are just not competitive anymore with other EU countries.
My guess is Brexit was never supposed succeed, most of the politicians supporting it knew it was a bad idea but thought it could give their party a few extra seats. They didn’t imagine their campaign would be successful enough to put them into the position to follow through on it.
Brexit let's the libertarian side of the torys to roll back workers rights and protections
Its funny, it makes me think about that time in Dota, when everyone voted for arcana for ogre magi and then it won.
Basically, every year in dota they release a compendium with skins for different heroes and bunch of other things. One of those other options is a vote for arcana which is a super rare skin which costs around 30 euros. So there was a vote for the next arcana, and for some reason, people were memeing about ogre magi. Its not the most popular hero, but he got 2 heads and he's a bit silly. So at some point this meme went so far that ogre magi actually won his arcana. And then people actually realized that, wow, he actually won. People knew he's not gonna win, its a very niche hero, there were just not enough people who played him to vote for him. And because no one thought he could win, people were voting for a joke only, the majority ended up voting for him. So this collective madness for a joke only ended up with arcana.
Seems like in U.K. it was a little bit the same. "No way we could leave EU, lets just vote to vote." And then boom.
Not even that. It was one part of Tories (mainly Boris) against the other (Cameron). Boris thought hat he can pump up his position within the party and he was quite sure the brexit will fail. That's why he didn't take the PM after it passed, but only after the horrible failure of Theresa May's cabinet.
Yep. If you look at the video of Farage when the result was announced, his first reaction was of shock, in a bad way, before he realised cameras were rolling and put on his usual estate agent persona... I think even he didn't expect people to actually vote for it.
@@RobManser77 And the thing is, he had a great and easy gig as the EU MP. The success of the Brexit pretty much killed the UKIP chances of becoming bigger parliamentary party and cost him his EU job.
Basically they want to be themselves and don't want to contribute but they still want to keep all of the priviledges and benefits of a trade union
At a time when nations around the world were forming large trading partnerships, you chose to leave the largest trading bloc. And you did so based on lies like the Brexit Bus, £350,000,000/ Week Whopper.
Irony is that this Brexit bus was made in Germany.
The NHS has been given more than £350m per week so that is not a lie. Another thing is that the eu are not the largest trading block, the largest is RCEP and then the CPTPP. The eu has been on the decline for decades and both RCEP and CPTTP are growing rapidly. Both of which the UK has applied to join so brexit in the mid to long term would definitely benefit the UK economically.
@@Curryking32000 the problem with that argument is to know if that money really came from leaving EU or because of corona + that it was increasing every year.
@@levi799 Its not an argument, its a fact. It doesn't matter what the reason is that the NHS has been given more than £350m per week extra since brexit, but the fact that it has. So, its not a lie.
@@Curryking32000 - Michael Gove admitted on Sky news that the numbers on the Bus (Leave campaign) were wrong.
"Let's fund" did not mean that the NHS should get the complete membership fee. Of course, the NHS gets more than PB 350 million per week. It is financed by taxes and the state receives by far more than this number per week. Wonder why your politicians talk abot "The pressure on the NHS" with unacceptabe waiting lists.
Have you more abbreviatons on store? And the old rhetoric, even the UK Government has admitted "that the economy is in a diffcult situation" (Jeremy Hunt), what else is left? Optimistic view for the future again, this has been known before, but in this case I can quote Nigel Farage who said on Sky News, when he was cornered: "Nobody can predict the future." - wish you all the best -
Living in a global market, it's a great idea to pull out of the market and renegotiate millions and millions of laws, contracts, and deals overnight.
Let me know when we manage to do that.
ATM we have just been kicking the can down the road.
EU don't want to renegotiate. Your can be in EU, in EFTA or out. Take your choice and hope all members agree.
EU don't want to renegotiate. Your can be in EU, in EFTA or out. Take your choice and hope all members agree.
@@TheWebstaff The guy was beeing sarcastic... GO BREXIT
@@bamfyfe I'm glad someone can spot sarcasm.
Seriously? As a Canadian, it seems intuitively obvious that cutting ties to an enormous trading block will be uneconomic. It’s not the end of the world. Rejoin if you like!
Joining take A LOT of time, implies A LOT of targets (poltical, social, economic) to be met, and, last but not least, you need the approval of ALL the other members. Not likely.
Any European country which fulfills certain criteria can apply for EU membership. But the decision which country joins the EU is up to the EU and its members.
I think UK is way too prideful to rejoin any time soon :D
@@carloduroni5629 It takes two to tango. All current EU member states would have to agree to let UK rejoin.
Our (British) future can only be in Europe. Without the EU we are nothing.
What a surprise... What did you expect? On the positive note, other countries suddenly lost their will to leave the EU
Never say never.
@@lesskeels3417 Never.
@@chello70 Never say never again!! Sorry 007.
@@lesskeels3417 Never!!!
@@chello70 No need to apologise eu silly remoaner eu could try living for the future though, better than living in the past.
@0:40 These ppl feel "betrayed" because they voted for Brexit out of a nationalistic, racist sense of xenophobia and now the chickens have come home to roost. Really, they feel embarrassed as they voted for their own demise.
You mean they got swindled by listening to a right wing politician?!? Who could have possibly predicted that?!? lol *sarcasm*
it feels good to see the market in green, but just how long until we actually break even, I’m the average retail trader, DCA-ing, buying and holding on to stocks for eons, but it’s like I’m up 5% today and down 17% the next week, Yes the market is very unpredictable, there’s winners and losers, and it’s looking like I’ve been on a losing streak, while others make huge 6figure gains in the same market. What strategies are these folks using?
So what I do is buy companies that are doing good things, executing on business plans and then short companies that are missing earnings, it’s as simple as that.
@@stevencooper7818 we’ve been in a rally for the last decade, you just gotta accept not everyone is as knowledgeable in the market to handle the opportunities a crash market presents, and unfortunately for me too, I got in 2019 right before the market’s melting point, I just hope I recover soon enough before retirement. Stay strong.
@@ReidCoffman1 I think the market will suffer more downtrends before full recovery, esp. with the inflation, hiked interest rate and looming recession bound to happen 2023, you should understand the market is not just finance and valuation, it’s history, it’s market psychology, it’s understanding how the world moves, which is why at this point in time, it’s ideal to work with an Investment-adviser with an unparalleled track record, from first hand experience,
I could say they stand a better chance than most of us ever would and it has been reflecting on my portfolio. I made over $850k in net gains this year alone and I’m unbothered about the market outcomes cause I’m certain I’ll make a killing, it’s all perspective guys.
@@AshtonGrace Nicely said, I was thinking about going that route too, Jimmy Cramer has been going on about opportunities at stake in this present market and I’d really love to set my portfolio up for whatever is coming 2023, could you recommend this coach that guides you?
I go to England one time each year.
At Waitrose someone asked me about brexit.
I told them that this was a bad idea.
They asked :"but, you are from Norway. Without the EU, we can have a wealt fond, and be as rich as Norway".
I told them, that Norway have twice as mutch oil and gas, and 12 times less people to share the wealth with.
England also was the EU's financial leader.
England is dependent on a marked it needs to compete in.
Norway sell fish, oil, and high tech.
And, that is global. So, EU are more dependent on Norway, than the other way around.
But, they beleved their politicians.
So, time to find out the hard way.
I'm an Australian who travels to both Norway and England a lot. There are bad apples in both places (and Australia of course) but many more in England. There are some real social problems there that are ignored.
And Norway is still very closely aligned with the EU
And to be honest Norway is extremely integrated with the EU, have to obey most of the EU laws and is paying a lot of money into EU budget. In reality Norway is almost EU member. I could understand is the UK would choose the same way of collaboration with the EU. But British politicians wanted to be "independent" . 🤦🤷
But are the fish in Norway happy?
You are spot on. the UK has no industry to speak of other than finance, so leaving was absolutely foolish. It has its pants down right now and I am baffled by the media got away with all the brainwashing and hysteria they polluted the public with to steer the votes
Brexit turned out to be a terrible idea. Look at what happens since World War II when the UK tried to develop things on their own: the TSR.2 attack plane turned out to be too limited in function and it took the cooperation with the Germans to get the technologically superior Panavia Tornado some 15 years later. In fact, companies around the world now prefer to deal with the EU because one set of economic regulations applies to multiple countries, saving a lot of money.
We don't want them back.. They knew what they voted for and I can see objections that will make it impossible. 1 they must adopt the Euro 2. No special opt outs 3 No rebate. The list is endless...
At the very least it should have been a 60% leave, such a massive irreversible decision should have a significant majority, especially when most people don’t understand what the decision means.
I was 16 at the time of the vote so I had no choice, and most people my age wanted to stay. So I and many my age feel cheated by people who won’t experience the long term consequences. Even if we want to rejoin, it’ll be without the benefits we did have and probably take decades because the EU won’t want us back unless they’re certain we’ll stay. Even then they might not
Edit: Also, based on how close the independence vote for Scotland was and how every constituency voted to stay in the EU, I wouldn’t be surprised if our own union broke up down the line. A complete shitshow
As l mentioned to an English person, the enemy is closer to home that many brits think: your own ruling elite, both CONservatives and Labour.
I'm sorry you have to live with this but please stop with this "people who won’t experience the long term consequences" BS. Not everyone above 45 is a walking dead man. This is a cheap narrative to fish young peoples approval.
@@christopherstein2024orr he’s a young person that shares this opinion. And yes statistically a 45 year old only has to deal with 27 years of the consequences of this action.
BREXIT IS A HUGE SUCCESS, it as worked exactly as intended. England can now maintain is fiscal paradises for the rich. That was the only intention behind leaving the rules of the common market. The day the EU proposed ending fiscal paradises the English politicians started talking about leaving the EU.
That is exactly right you are one of the few understanding the real reasons. All these guys have been manipulated and they still dont get it. Scary.
If the British were smart, they would start cutting public spending by privatizing services such as health and universities.
@@mitchtuckermcenroe Privatisation of Health is the worst thing to happen.
@@lifesakaleidoscope In the USA, private healthcare works well. There is no danger of the government meddling in your care.
Socialized healthcare is evil.
Yeah and people are in debt dying in the streets and other people put eye blinkers in the US.
I don’t know the NHS and their current crisis but in France people can go to the hospital when needed.
I think Brexit went exactly like the people who orchestrated it intend.
So everybody happy, right?
@@lbergen001 well not everyone but people who made money probably.
tax havens for the rich.
@@lbergen001 Except the majority of Brits who have to face the consequences. There are very specific groups who orchestrated Brexit behind closed doors, manipulated the population to do what they want, and are now the only ones profiting. People who say that it was "the will of the people" are fooling themselves.
This is litteraly a pro eu German news outlet, the same Germany that needed the uk to donate vaccines.
If I divorce my wife thinking I can do better, I can't expect her to still provide financial support and intimacy when my plans to be a player fail spectacularly, I don't get to then blame her for making my life difficult. But that seems to be the way a Brexiteers mind works.
And now the UK is eating its microwaved TV-dinner alone...
I know, right?! This is exactly the argument I used with Brexiteers. Their response was to shove their heads in the sand and loudly insist "that's how it works!" 🤦🏻♀️
and when you check your bank account, it turns out you weren't paying her 350 million pounds a week!
@@JakobusVdL and when you check your savings account, it turns out she's not giving you 2000 million a week!
@@JakobusVdL Thats not how the allegory worked...
But lets play yours:
You also don't earn as much because you used her connections to get easier access to customers. Now everything is more costly.
3:46 100 BILLION per year. Measly 350 Million per week are nothing compared to it. You should've watched the video 😂
Just as my father said, England (and he specified not the whole of Britain) and its old men believe itself special still and that the glory of the Empire be restored, but like many old people they do not recognize that the world has changed and that they are nowhere near the centre of it, and for the that people who did nothing wrong and knew the consequences will suffer for those old men which the will shield
I am an EU citizen living in the UK. Remember we and nearly half the british people did not want Brextit. I would love to be as smug as the presenter on this video but the reality is that we are suffering a huge decline and knowing we were always right about it being a terrible idea doesn't help us get medical treatment or the qulity of life we used to have. Have some sympathy for those of us that are being dragged down by the muppets that voted to leave.
Bear in mind, only because someone did not vote for Brexit, does not mean that someone likes the foreigners in the country. This Brexit has many layers.
@@comdo831 The thing is that the foreigners in UK do the jobs that british people won't do, so no harm there
The system failed. Don't try to force a failed system on other countries.
@@comdo831 I would say it differently. Those who did not vote agree with the will of the majority. They de facto voted to leave the EU.
@@Johnny24rs That's a great future perspective, be permanently stuck doing jobs others won't do. It's exactly this attitude that makes living in a country like the UK so unappealing.
If the cost to the UK is £100B/annum, and EU membership was £350M/week, the loss of opportunity to the UK is roughly 5.5X more than the membership fee.
That's a high price to pay for exceptionalism.
they voted expecting the empire days without an empire
The EU in it's undemocratic, indebted form is probably doomed.
What makes you think that?
@@supertuscans9512 Probably the constant bleating of, 'We can trade with the Commonwealth', that was thrown around as a reassurance to voters before the referendum. People thought the remnants of the Empire would support them.
What went wrong is that the UK didn't realise that it IS part of Europe after all. They will have to re-join at some stage but will be at a disadvantage due to this mess. The French and the Belgians are laughing themselves silly.
I'm not even from the EU and I knew this was a dumb move.
Is your fish happy? In UK it is so...
EU should NOT let UK rejoin their internal market. UK's total failure of Brexit is the EU's insurance of internal support in future.
There is no chance that the UK will apply to rejoin the eu.
@@nigeljohnson9820 lets hope not
@@sancte3982 a labour government might try, after all the eu was a good place to hide UK economic failure.
More likely, the eu will again to try and turn the UK into a subservient state like Switzerland.
They're definitely never getting their opt-outs or rebate back.
@@nigeljohnson9820 Never say never, give it 20 years and we'll be back. 🇬🇧🇪🇺
After saving 350million every week, government still doesn't have money to pay nhs nurse. Hilarious
They spend billions on the the NHS.
Are you forgetting the last 2 yrs.
Because they are not saving anything
This is what happens when under educated populations are easily conned into things against their own bemefit. Happens in US alot and we can read EVERY bill and law in full. Yet no one does they fall for ppls bold faced lies and never actually read the truth
Yeah, most of the US just waits till whatever politician represents their "team" tells them whether they should love it or hate it and then they start screaming on social media. Our intellectual laziness honestly has no bounds at this point.
@@e.turduckeny630 Exactly... It's sad and scary to behold.
to be fair, even the politicians signing the bills don't read them in full
Leaves a single market that provides bureaucracy and tax free movement of goods. Complains about increased bureaucracy and taxes to access the single market. Seems like intelligence is not their strongest skill. 😂
I never understood how is such a big decision made just by a simple majority? I mean, wouldn't this demand somehting like a huge majority for change like in 75% at least? This would prevent a crack within the nation's society and wouldn't allow populists to give your nation such fatals injuries. Although we don't know about the after effects in the long run, yet. I really wish all the best for the UK, but history should have shown that nationalism doesn't lead to anything 'good'. While I understand the frustration on the bureaucracy of the EU and its ongoing always growing size of authorities, reglementations and institutions next to fear of the loss of UK's identity.
Yes I mean strike legislation is a fixed percentage of all members must vote and I'm not sure what that is. Then 50% aof a postal vote
as an EU citizen living in switzerland I can tell you one thing: forgte the swiss style deal. Not because its bad, imo its great, but becaus eits super complex and delicate and because I cannot imagine British politicians having the diplomatic finesse of the Swiss to negotiate smth like that. Furtehrmore the EU hates the bilaterals with switzerland and wont be doing smth like that ever agai, im pretty sure.
Fundamentally britain is not as geographically intertwined withe the EU as Switzerland is.
Absolute agree. Swiss politicians close the doors to negotiate, the british ones alert the media.
This is what happens when the public doesn't educate themselves about what they vote on.
more like what happens when INCOMPETENT narrow minded "leaders" propose bad ideas to their populace.
The UK was never really IN. First, they didn't want to join the EEC. Then, in the sixties, they wanted to join but only on their own terms. In 1975, only two-and-a-half years after having entered, the UK had a first referendum. In 1979 Maggie wanted her money back, which she eventually did in 1984. But this was still not enough. Just before 2016, they had the best deal with exceptions and opt-outs, but it was still not enough as Cameron wanted yet more and more exceptions. It was never enough and it never would be enough. They saw the EU as a profitable free trade zone. Nothing more.
And that's EXACTLY why we left. Patently OBVIOUS that the EU and ourselves were on different wavebands, the free, fair & open trade was AOK.......it was all that famous (notorious?) EU bureaucracy that was the thorn in our side. The CPTPP free-trade bloc is, in my opinion, more attuned to the English idea of world trade, we have always been a nation that has traded across the globe since Empire days, and since there are no political affiliations involved, it seems to be something with a future in it. Unlike the EU.
With Brexit, Brits have proved that they still have the best sense of humour because it's also the weirdest sense of humour.
They are surely not laughing now.
Yeah the humor matters not the economy
I'm in Canada, didn't follow much of what was going on and even then it seemed like a rediculous thing to do. To cut the UK off. Everyone there went crazy thinking the Empire still existed. 🤷♂️
Its nothing to do with the Empire and what do you know when living in Canada.
I'm shocked to hear that people believed leaving the eu would increase business. That's like telling your liver or kidneys there better off being removed from the rest of your body. They dont have to perform their functions any longer, but they no longer have blood circulating to them either..
While the government would initially save money by ceasing payments for eu policies and programs, businesses will ultimately generate less profit and pay less tax due to increased difficulty conducting foreign transactions.
In the long run it simply means a reduced economy, outweighing any savings by leaving in the first place.
And yet, somehow, this elementary logic manages to elude so many voters b/c it doesn't suit their confirmation bias. The London School of Economics put out some studies on the likely economic impact of Brexit during the debates and voting, and in the years since then it looks like their projections for income and purchasing power loss per household were borne out by actual numbers. I"m in the US, so it was interesting to observe but we had our own domestic trainwreck to deal with at the time. :D
Oh my country has a fair share of people like that as well. Failing to realise we are a country of commerce and knowledge. We have almost no natural resources to speak of such as oil and gas and mainly exist for our tech and exports.
Without the EU we are nowhere because we're very small. If we ever leave I'm immigrating
I doubt any did. It is a remainer attitude that business is what it was about. Remainers desperately seek out odd comments of some back then who may have made such comments, but no person in ordinary life was interested in the economy or business. Money was never the point, right and wrong, principles matter more and first. The eu is an evil empire long after the age of empires is over. A nasty dream of megalomanic continentals over time.
@@nicholaspostlethwaite9554 calling the EU, a multinational framework founded on the principle of peace through cooperation as an evil empire when talking about the UK is ironic af lmao.
@@chinguunerdenebadrakh7022 There is part of the problem. The eu is nothing of the sort or has no place imagining it is. It was and should only ever be a trading block arrangement. The evil is rooted in this nasty aim to be political, an empire of evil intent. It's evil 'war by other means' has created the Ukraine war. By 'invading' its power and influence eastwards. Right up to Russia's area of concern. The eu created this current conflict.
They thought that they could leave the EU, but somehow still have all the benefits of a EU member.
That´s like canceling my gym membership and then being surprised that I now have to buy a day pass for every workout.
I was shocked too that after divorcing I need to leave the bedroom.