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.
@@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.
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!
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.
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?
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.
@@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.
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...
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.
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.
@duncan smith 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
It was a great idea if the brexit fantasy came through .. The they need us more than we need them fantasy The hope was that the EU would make a fuss for awhile and like opting out of the euro and shengen they would turn a blind eye and the uk could trade in the SM rent free . It was extreme arrogance The EU no longer has an obligation to do that for a 3rd country as it would cause uproar among paying member .. Now brexiteers will not stop crying its the evil EU punishing us 🙄
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.
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).
"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.
@@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?
@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
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!
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. "
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.
@@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?
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
@@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
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.
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 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 )
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.
@@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
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?
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.
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
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 )
@@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.
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!
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!?!
@@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. 😂😂
@@thomasherrin6798 No, it wasn't sold as an "economic union". That is still a lie that gets repeated over and over again by prominent Leave figures in the hope it somehow sticks. An economic union as close as the EU needs the same standards and regulations for all members. It also needs a possibility to represent all members toward third parties. Both of these things require a political union. "DETERMINED to lay the foundations of an ever-closer union among the peoples of Europe", sounds like something the EU decided after the UK joined? Well, it is the first sentence in the 1957 declaration that formed the European Economic Union. Later on in this document we already see plans to introduce all kinds of political institutions (parliament, court of justice, commission etc.), the 4 freedoms and the intent to make create the laws required to make that happen. The first referendum in 1975 already had the same arguments as the 2nd Leave campaign: Claiming that Brussel is becoming the capital of Britain, fearmongering of an "undemocratic" parliament etc., Britain voted to remain back then. So yes, Britain knew that they signed up for more than an economic union. Even back then. Difference is that it took several decades of anti-EU scapegoating by media and politicians in the UK to swing the vote barely in favour of leave. How mainland Europe "crashes" your energy market is something i don't quite understand either. As a result of the Russian attack on Ukraine? That would be on Russia, not the EU. And while you claim the UK needs further independence from the Energy market your Leave-government decided to massively increase the capacity of interconnectors to the rest of Europe, more than doubling the current capacity. Guess they did lie about that independency part too?
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!.
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.
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.
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.
@@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 .
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.
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.
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.
@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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
@@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
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...
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.
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.
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.
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 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" . 🤦🤷
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
@@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.
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
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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 -
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 live in Britain, and the best thing is how this is hurting those who voted for it the most. The bad thing is it hurts the young who didn't vote for it the most when you consider the long-term restrictions and stagnation of the British economy and public services.
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.
@@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.
Look a few comments above, you just have to wait 10 years and all the promises of the honourable liar Johnson will come true. I feel so sorry for you sensible people who have fallen victim to this campaign of lies.
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...
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
@@mhm9868 Whoosh... you're reading way too much into my words and my wish for peace. 2:43 see how the anchor's sound and image is in sinc? And then see how Carl Nasman from London is 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.
December 20th i put an order on Amazon UK. From France. 10 days after, still nothing. I will cancel my order and look for another in EU to order from. I didn't check first from where was the seller. Won't make the same mistake again.
@@markmd9 Yeah, won't happen because our political system isn't representative. Brexit means nothing unless we get reform of the whole political system, and the only ones who can achieve that are the ones in power. If you were to sum up the entire actions of the government in one word, it would be dishonest. The electoral mandate wasn't worth the paper it was written on.
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. 🤷♂️
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.
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.
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.
@@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
The Brexit instigators knew they would find themselves separated from their main market by customs barriers. They believed in British exceptionalism so much that they really thought they could negotiate access to the single market without paying the dues...
They basically got tricked with promises that made no sense, like the EU would still allow the UK tariff-free and low bureaucracy to their market. Of course that was never going to happen since then everyone would just leave if UK got that deal.
The UK agreed to preconditions before talks which tied their hands behind their backs. More fool those scaredy-cat politicians... If they'd stuck *hard* to "no deal" by default and insisted on concessions in exchange for trade it might've worked (the likes of Germany had many jobs dependent on exports to the UK), but they were too cowardly.
The EU reduces barriers if the UK shares it's economical standards. It's not than the EU doesn't want to It CAN'T otherwise the internal market would be damaged. Lack of shared institiutions comes whit less cooperation that Is logical.
As someone who voted to remain in the EU I can only shake my head in amazement that so many fell for the BS of the Vote Leave campaign and are now perplexed at the problems we are facing!
@@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.
Just remember, almost half of us who voted, didn't want to leave the EU. The ones who saw the writing on the wall were punished by those who had been mislead, were over nationalistic or extreme right xenophobes.
Actually, a lot LESS than half wanted to stay in the EU - a lot less than half because turnout was only 72.2%. Demonstrable pro-EU sentiment was about 34% on the day of the referendum. This was a massive political failure by the David Cameron, the EU and the Remain campaign generally.
The thing that went wrong was that they allowed the English and Welsh to vote. Scotland and Ireland knew it was a bad idea and heavily voted against it. "Oh let's leave the second biggest free market economy, that's a great idea and we will prosper from it" 😢😢😢
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.
@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.
I have to admit that I feel a bit of Schadenfreude, but it turns into sadness and anger very quickly when I think of one of my friends who lives in the UK. 😩
@@supertuscans9512 Jealousy because his friend in the UK lives in a free and independent sovereign state - which can’t seriously be said about member states in the EU which have no say over their trade or immigration laws.
Imagine a country that has been part of an organization since the 1970s and then suddenly decides to leave without first having made a transition plan...
@@objetivista686 Rubbish. The Treaty of Lisbon abolished the concept of unanimity, vastly enhanced the European Parliament's powers, etc. The UK population was heavily against such moves but the planned referendum was cancelled and the UK was signed up to the EU in private.
Here's something interesting. Scotland was overwhelmingly for staying in the EU, and some years ago came pretty close to choosing to become independent. Could this finally tip the scale?
No because the SNP and the idea of independence is finished in Scotland due to Nicola Sturgeon. There is no viable political alternative to drive the cause of independence.
@@alacarte8635Except what the english media would call "a rebellion movement", which I think if the Scottish made that right, they would gain independence. I do not mean the use of violence, but protests and seeking international recognition. Scotland would win a 2nd Referendum, England knows that and they are desperately trying to stop a 2nd Referendum. The Englishman rightneousness always sickens me and I hope the Scottish people gain independence and join the EU by the end of the decade or in mid 2030's
@@Diego-lt4wm there's been disquiet about Brexit nearly 3 years old and negoations between EU and UK nearly finished yet no European politicians coming out in support of at least speak positively of Scottish independence. The question is why should they? No SNP politician has furthered the cause of independence in the last 3 years and the new SNP leader Yousaf is coming out with the same guff as Sturgeon of needing the stars to align before they start to campaign for independence. There is a UK election next year and UK Government gives each Political party money depending on how many seats they gain at UK election. The system is called short money. Surprise, surprise the SNP are now starting to talk about possible plans on how to get a second referendum. It's just a cynical exercise to minimise their electoral decimation next year due to independence supporters not turning up to vote out of disgust.
There was a lot of countries in EU who wanted to leave, as soon as they understood the results of leaving EU. They stopped. UK is suffering from Empire syndrome.
@@Al-ny8dk This is exactly the muddled thinking that lead to Brexit. Leaving the EU has absolutely no effect on immigration from non-EU countries such as former British imperial territories, that was already under the control of the UK government BEFORE BREXIT. If you voted for Brexit to change that then it was a pointless vote.
Lots of EU countries wish to leave but the EU leadership forced the the exit as costly as possible to scare other countries. Nice family EU is :) EUs rule by fear seems better to fit the "Empire syndrome" characterisation. Britan was the only country that managed to escape the undemocratic dystopia - will be better off in the long run
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.
I remember an interview with a woman in UK after the election who said she voted to leave EU just for fun and did not think it would happen. Or the interviews with the fishermen who wanted to leave EU so they did not have any restrictions on fishing and could fish in the UK water for themself. And now they do not have anywhere to sell the fish.
They got their Fishing Rights back! Ayyy, now that's a benefit to the 0.1% of the economy... excluding the fact that the Fishing Industry is also expected massive losses as British people really don't eat British Fish that are caught by British Fishermen, so they export most of them to Central and East Europe expect for Cod but still. The 0.1% of the country is going to have a "great" future ahead of them!
@@lostonearth7856 Except the fishing industry is now complaining that they can't export to the EU because of all the red tape, so their catch doesn't arrive fresh! Some people should have been more careful what they wished and voted for.
I remember that when Brexit stuff was proposed in the mid 2010s, I was visiting the UK and saw some people on a London street discussing this proposition. I got near and listened the conversation and the arguments, and me, that I am very curious, got into the conversation with a couple of questions- So this party is proposing to have a smaller market for the future of the UK? And to have higher tariffs imposed to UK goods in the continent, when there is none right now? And the ones in favor of Brexit said that those things would never affect the UK, coz the UK knew how to make things better and other countries would recognize that fact. Well, look at the UK now, a real mess and with a slowing economy compared to the European Block........
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
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.
The UK was my home for nine years. I waited until I had SS and left. I still miss it after 3 years and miss feeling at home, but the betrayal was too much to bear. It’s hard seeing the country I love go down the drain like this, but I remind myself that life ebbs and flows and that there will be better times ahead in the future. There must be.
There will be I mean we could’ve been ridden with 3rd worlders who rape children but the eu never cared and that’s a large reason as to why we left because that in itself was also destroying our economy
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.
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!" 🤦🏻♀️
@@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 😂
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.
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...
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?
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.
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.
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?
So you sanctioned yourselves? Genius move.
So you sanctioned yourselves? Genius move.
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...
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.
You cut yourself from a market and you expect things to become better? Genius.
@duncansmith7562 have you seen where the UK is on the map
@duncan smith 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
It was a great idea if the brexit fantasy came through ..
The they need us more than we need them fantasy
The hope was that the EU would make a fuss for awhile and like opting out of the euro and shengen they would turn a blind eye and the uk could trade in the SM rent free .
It was extreme arrogance
The EU no longer has an obligation to do that for a 3rd country as it would cause uproar among paying member ..
Now brexiteers will not stop crying its the evil EU punishing us 🙄
@duncan smith Yeah right, all those other countries banging at our door to do trade deals - no, I can't see them either.
@duncan smith The EU has never stopped the UK from exporting to the rest of the world. And genius, even the export to that rest of the world fell.
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).
"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.
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
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
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.
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
As long as you have something, you only realize the disadvantages. The advantages you realize when you lost it.
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.
Or in the words of the wise sage Joni Mitchell “You don’t know what you got ‘til it’s gone”
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!
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
BUT THE BUS SAID IT WOULD BE GREAT! /s
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.
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?
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.
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.
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!
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
@@thomasherrin6798
No, it wasn't sold as an "economic union". That is still a lie that gets repeated over and over again by prominent Leave figures in the hope it somehow sticks. An economic union as close as the EU needs the same standards and regulations for all members. It also needs a possibility to represent all members toward third parties. Both of these things require a political union.
"DETERMINED to lay the foundations of an ever-closer union among the peoples of Europe", sounds like something the EU decided after the UK joined? Well, it is the first sentence in the 1957 declaration that formed the European Economic Union.
Later on in this document we already see plans to introduce all kinds of political institutions (parliament, court of justice, commission etc.), the 4 freedoms and the intent to make create the laws required to make that happen.
The first referendum in 1975 already had the same arguments as the 2nd Leave campaign: Claiming that Brussel is becoming the capital of Britain, fearmongering of an "undemocratic" parliament etc., Britain voted to remain back then. So yes, Britain knew that they signed up for more than an economic union. Even back then. Difference is that it took several decades of anti-EU scapegoating by media and politicians in the UK to swing the vote barely in favour of leave.
How mainland Europe "crashes" your energy market is something i don't quite understand either. As a result of the Russian attack on Ukraine? That would be on Russia, not the EU. And while you claim the UK needs further independence from the Energy market your Leave-government decided to massively increase the capacity of interconnectors to the rest of Europe, more than doubling the current capacity.
Guess they did lie about that independency part too?
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?
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.
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 😭😭😭
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 .
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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 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 😂
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...
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
"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'm not even from the EU and I knew this was a dumb move.
Is your fish happy? In UK it is so...
2:19 that "ooooooh" and the man saying absolute disaster, that's pure meme material right here
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.
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
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 -
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.
I live in Britain, and the best thing is how this is hurting those who voted for it the most. The bad thing is it hurts the young who didn't vote for it the most when you consider the long-term restrictions and stagnation of the British economy and public services.
@Grunyit MacQuethal Covid and Ukraine. The Brexit voters lightning conductors.
most racists voted for Brexit ,not having a clue about anything
@Grunyit MacQuethal There is still koodaid left.
Being in the EU is not a bed of roses either.
@grunyitmacquethal5519 yeah, now the UK can use the billions and billions advertised on buses.😂
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.
I live in the UK. It's absolutely broken. I can't believe the decline I have witnessed recently. It's scary.
Look a few comments above, you just have to wait 10 years and all the promises of the honourable liar Johnson will come true. I feel so sorry for you sensible people who have fallen victim to this campaign of lies.
oddly enough trying to sell pork pies to bongo bongo land in the mistaken belief that its 1950 wasn't as successful as they predicted
Stop sending all your money to Zelensky. Pay for the NHS instead.
as if things weren't worse in germany lol
@@jordan-ho7gt Many states are in crisis because of the war. In the UK, the negative effects of Brexit are added to this.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
While sound still travels pretty fast, even the images send from the UK get a delay these days...
Maybe it’s going via the long path and sneaking up from behind having travelled around the rest of the world first.. lol
@@mhm9868 And...?
Because the ponzi club is trying very hard to punish the UK for leaving
@@mhm9868 Whoosh... you're reading way too much into my words and my wish for peace.
2:43 see how the anchor's sound and image is in sinc? And then see how Carl Nasman from London is not?
the sanctions they impose on Russia make the energy bills go up (^_^)
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. 🇬🇧🇪🇺
The title should really be "How is the UK struggling" rather than "Why"
You never appreciate what u have lost until its gone.
At least Nigel Farage could enjoy his yacht now.
Like dignity and self respect and freedom
December 20th i put an order on Amazon UK. From France. 10 days after, still nothing. I will cancel my order and look for another in EU to order from. I didn't check first from where was the seller. Won't make the same mistake again.
Buy from China it'll get here faster.
On ebay I choose now "EU Europe" instead of "continental Europe".
"Be careful what you wish for, it might just come true"
WE are still waiting for what we voted for.
@@PopularesVox yeah, yeah, continue waiting 😂
@@markmd9 Yeah, won't happen because our political system isn't representative. Brexit means nothing unless we get reform of the whole political system, and the only ones who can achieve that are the ones in power. If you were to sum up the entire actions of the government in one word, it would be dishonest. The electoral mandate wasn't worth the paper it was written on.
@@PopularesVox and you'll be waiting for a long time. I'm terribly sorry, but the sunlit uplands are not coming for us
Nonsense unlimited asylum seekers has been delivered by international law,,,welcome to the party pal
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.
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 Brexit instigators knew they would find themselves separated from their main market by customs barriers. They believed in British exceptionalism so much that they really thought they could negotiate access to the single market without paying the dues...
They basically got tricked with promises that made no sense, like the EU would still allow the UK tariff-free and low bureaucracy to their market. Of course that was never going to happen since then everyone would just leave if UK got that deal.
The UK agreed to preconditions before talks which tied their hands behind their backs. More fool those scaredy-cat politicians... If they'd stuck *hard* to "no deal" by default and insisted on concessions in exchange for trade it might've worked (the likes of Germany had many jobs dependent on exports to the UK), but they were too cowardly.
A red bus promised 350 million a week for the NHS.
The EU reduces barriers if the UK shares it's economical standards. It's not than the EU doesn't want to It CAN'T otherwise the internal market would be damaged.
Lack of shared institiutions comes whit less cooperation that Is logical.
It’s got more than that!
Will the Republic of Ireland economically surpass the UK?
Brexit has played out exactly like I and many many others thought it would.
As someone who voted to remain in the EU I can only shake my head in amazement that so many fell for the BS of the Vote Leave campaign and are now perplexed at the problems we are facing!
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 could you say if one wanted to shoot one's own foot and did it ?
Why say anything when it's no longer Germany's concern?
@@djlondon7956 Because it's fun!
Can I watch and take photos???
Best of luck, mate!
@@hello.itsme.5635 I accept this reasoning.
Just remember, almost half of us who voted, didn't want to leave the EU. The ones who saw the writing on the wall were punished by those who had been mislead, were over nationalistic or extreme right xenophobes.
Us?
Two thirds of my country, Scotland. Every single constituency here voted to remain.
but you all know : Fifel Garage would never lie to you for his own purpose , right ?
Actually, a lot LESS than half wanted to stay in the EU - a lot less than half because turnout was only 72.2%. Demonstrable pro-EU sentiment was about 34% on the day of the referendum. This was a massive political failure by the David Cameron, the EU and the Remain campaign generally.
Almost...
@@markaxworthy2508 The EU ? the EU does not meddle in national politics and never took part in the brexit campaign nor had a say in it.
The thing that went wrong was that they allowed the English and Welsh to vote. Scotland and Ireland knew it was a bad idea and heavily voted against it. "Oh let's leave the second biggest free market economy, that's a great idea and we will prosper from it" 😢😢😢
I was shocked too that after divorcing I need to leave the bedroom.
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.
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
The public did not truly understand Brexit before the vote
What a shame
@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*
I have to admit that I feel a bit of Schadenfreude,
but it turns into sadness and anger very quickly when I think of one of my friends who lives in the UK. 😩
Why?
@@supertuscans9512 Jealousy because his friend in the UK lives in a free and independent sovereign state - which can’t seriously be said about member states in the EU which have no say over their trade or immigration laws.
@begood6011 you are poor now. So you will find out how other treat small poor countries.
@@begood6011
And how is that "independent and free state" turning out for ya ?
@@G_Singh222 It's going great, thanks for asking. Now have a fully accountable government that can't hide behind EU rules as an excuse.
Imagine a country that has been part of an organization since the 1970s and then suddenly decides to leave without first having made a transition plan...
The UK wasn't part of the EU since the 1970s. The EU didn't exist back then...
@@dw620 a different name...
@@objetivista686 Rubbish. The Treaty of Lisbon abolished the concept of unanimity, vastly enhanced the European Parliament's powers, etc.
The UK population was heavily against such moves but the planned referendum was cancelled and the UK was signed up to the EU in private.
@@dw620 what i know, scots and younger urban brits were predominantly remainers and elderly, rural white brits were predominantly leavers or bexiters.
imagine having to bail out countries such as Portugal;, Italy, Greece, and Spain.
Here's something interesting. Scotland was overwhelmingly for staying in the EU, and some years ago came pretty close to choosing to become independent. Could this finally tip the scale?
No because the SNP and the idea of independence is finished in Scotland due to Nicola Sturgeon. There is no viable political alternative to drive the cause of independence.
Here's something interesting, 35-40% of Scots voted to leave in 2016.
@@alacarte8635Except what the english media would call "a rebellion movement", which I think if the Scottish made that right, they would gain independence. I do not mean the use of violence, but protests and seeking international recognition.
Scotland would win a 2nd Referendum, England knows that and they are desperately trying to stop a 2nd Referendum.
The Englishman rightneousness always sickens me and I hope the Scottish people gain independence and join the EU by the end of the decade or in mid 2030's
@@Diego-lt4wm there's been disquiet about Brexit nearly 3 years old and negoations between EU and UK nearly finished yet no European politicians coming out in support of at least speak positively of Scottish independence.
The question is why should they? No SNP politician has furthered the cause of independence in the last 3 years and the new SNP leader Yousaf is coming out with the same guff as Sturgeon of needing the stars to align before they start to campaign for independence.
There is a UK election next year and UK Government gives each Political party money depending on how many seats they gain at UK election. The system is called short money.
Surprise, surprise the SNP are now starting to talk about possible plans on how to get a second referendum. It's just a cynical exercise to minimise their electoral decimation next year due to independence supporters not turning up to vote out of disgust.
@@alacarte8635 I see
Well, that wasn't only predictable, but it was predicted, over and over again.
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
There was a lot of countries in EU who wanted to leave, as soon as they understood the results of leaving EU. They stopped. UK is suffering from Empire syndrome.
Hopefully that will mean people from the old Empire will stop coming to the UK!!! They should go to the EU instead. Malta/Slovenia/Portugal anyone?
@@Al-ny8dk This is exactly the muddled thinking that lead to Brexit. Leaving the EU has absolutely no effect on immigration from non-EU countries such as former British imperial territories, that was already under the control of the UK government BEFORE BREXIT. If you voted for Brexit to change that then it was a pointless vote.
Lots of EU countries wish to leave but the EU leadership forced the the exit as costly as possible to scare other countries. Nice family EU is :) EUs rule by fear seems better to fit the "Empire syndrome" characterisation. Britan was the only country that managed to escape the undemocratic dystopia - will be better off in the long run
@@siltee9983 lmaoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
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
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
I remember an interview with a woman in UK after the election who said she voted to leave EU just for fun and did not think it would happen.
Or the interviews with the fishermen who wanted to leave EU so they did not have any restrictions on fishing and could fish in the UK water for themself. And now they do not have anywhere to sell the fish.
Still have never seen someone say an actual benefit of leaving the eu
less british tourists, has been quite good for the EU
They got their Fishing Rights back!
Ayyy, now that's a benefit to the 0.1% of the economy... excluding the fact that the Fishing Industry is also expected massive losses as British people really don't eat British Fish that are caught by British Fishermen, so they export most of them to Central and East Europe expect for Cod but still.
The 0.1% of the country is going to have a "great" future ahead of them!
Well, Russia benefitted.
@@lostonearth7856 Except the fishing industry is now complaining that they can't export to the EU because of all the red tape, so their catch doesn't arrive fresh!
Some people should have been more careful what they wished and voted for.
best comedy show ever for all apart UK !
What did the world learn? Don't let conservatives isolate your country while blaming their woes on other countries
I remember that when Brexit stuff was proposed in the mid 2010s, I was visiting the UK and saw some people on a London street discussing this proposition. I got near and listened the conversation and the arguments, and me, that I am very curious, got into the conversation with a couple of questions- So this party is proposing to have a smaller market for the future of the UK? And to have higher tariffs imposed to UK goods in the continent, when there is none right now? And the ones in favor of Brexit said that those things would never affect the UK, coz the UK knew how to make things better and other countries would recognize that fact. Well, look at the UK now, a real mess and with a slowing economy compared to the European Block........
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
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.
They got what they wanted, make them enjoy their isolation and uniquness.
The UK was my home for nine years. I waited until I had SS and left. I still miss it after 3 years and miss feeling at home, but the betrayal was too much to bear. It’s hard seeing the country I love go down the drain like this, but I remind myself that life ebbs and flows and that there will be better times ahead in the future. There must be.
Where do you went?
I doubt there will be better times ahead for the UK, because by the time things turn around, there won't be a UK.
There will be I mean we could’ve been ridden with 3rd worlders who rape children but the eu never cared and that’s a large reason as to why we left because that in itself was also destroying our economy
Russia and China survive in Europe, they don't seem to have trouble with blood money so I can't see any problem with good money, do you!?!
The ebbs and flows can take hundreds of years to be honest, if not more. If any. Look at the Greeks or Romans.
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 😂
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.
At least there is one positive thing. Anyone who was planning to leave the,Union is no longer thinking about it.
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... !