But even with the downsides of Brexit abundantly clear, it remains the elephant in many a room. "Brexit has been a huge mistake that needs to be fixed." Is what Labour should be stating. This won't solve the issue, but it would be a starting point. No-one but the most gullible thinks that Brexit was, is or will ever become a success and the UK as a country should wake up to reality.
As a Brexit voter I believe 'Brexit' is going to get much much worse. BoE telling us Net Zero is increasing our energy costs will become Brexit is increasing our energy bills. No longer offering the lower interest rates on decarbonisation = Brexit. Reeves budget disaster becomes ???? Brexit and Liz Truss.
@stewie7338 I wish you and the other Brits who voted on such a stupid ass decision could suffer alone. Unfortunately, we (remainers) have to go through this with you! Genius decision, well done
Brexit voters don't think that. It is Remainers that see the EU as the new Empire. Remainers never got rid of their colonial mindset. They cannot accept their is no Empire anymore so want to be part of an EU one.
Britain must remain Compliant with the EU. In its laws and regulations. With no political influence it once had. Similar with the CTPPT. Britain is now a rule taker. Not a rule maker. 🇮🇪🇪🇺
derekmulready1523 "Britain must remain Compliant with the EU." That's demonstrably false. The UK has already diverged in some regards and even the Labour government has done that - as with the VAT on private schools and now the gene editing for crops, neither of which are permitted under EU regulations.
Britain still needs to export food to the EU. Gmo food is not permitted in the EU. Certain herbicides for control of weeds in arrible crops aren't permitted as they have the tendency to disoriente pollening insects bees butterfly and Moths. The British pie and jam making companies will be barred from the EU. 🇮🇪🇪🇺
@@Doggle85I think you have misunderstood the issue with EU compliance. If you want to sell goods it to the EU they must comply with EU regulations. With regards to VAT on private schools, again I think you are mistaken, the government has removed private schools charitable status which they have been using to avoid VAT.
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Going for a 'clean break' from the EU when you don't have a plan for your country; other than going to war - that's about the worst thing a leader and a governing party can do to their country. Words cannot adequately describe how bad doing such a thing is. Or of going about the subsequent negotiations - with an utterly closed mind. I've said this before and will say it again - Brexit is the beginning of the end of the UK as we know it. And no, that's not hyperbole, it's the reality.
I have a friend say to me "I don't care if brexit makes me poorer at least we'er free." There is no argument against that kind of thinking. Nose, face, sharp knife comes to mind.
A nice line of argument is this: Freedom? You mean sovereignty? Yes. Exactly. What is that, sovereignty? The freedom of self governance. How does that look like? Well….you know….such and so… I’ll help. Sovereignty is the only invisible currency in the world. Really? What can you buy with it? Bilateral agreements. The right to cross a border. The right to travel to a certain country. The technical possibility to call to another country. But now the UK has lots of it. Stored in a fridge. But, but, but, more freedom. What part didn’t you not understand. LESS FREEDOM!!!
@ai-d2121 Unfortunately, as much as I agree with your argument, my friend's thinking about brexit is like a religion. No proof need just believe. Logical arguments and proof don't work in a belief system.
@@keysmiff7689 You're right about the impossibility of logic breaking through a belief system. Logic may not do it, but eventually as their belief system crumbles on contact with reality, they will find it ever more difficult to ignore its effects. They will of course cling desperately, to their beliefs, but....
Rob. You are preaching to the intelligent. Those who are capable of critical thinking. The vast rump of society who switch off their brains to either consume social media or Ant & Dec will never accept reports like this because they are too lazy to engage their brain. They live off prejudice and McDonalds - all very dubious brain food... We educate our kids but we stop educating their parents. A vast rump of lazy, gullible, unthinking people who are not just knuckle draggers. I feel sorry for the kids who are denied freedom of movement and opportunity whose parents and grandparents were taken in by charlatans like Farage and Johnson with no thought to how Brexit would work or its affect on anything other than a different colour passport. Brexit and populism go hand in hand. Populism skillfully manipulated by pub bores like Farage leads to people embracing 'Trumped up' mini dictators like Musk and the rest of the tech bros to use democracy for one thing - to get rid of it. This is how all extreme idealogies work. They use the very tool of democracy to destroy it.
It’s not free. It’s free at the point of use. It costs billions, you and I pay for it in taxation (and I wouldn’t have it any other way). When I travel to the US I get $10m insurance. And I worry that may not be enough
UK paid 10 billion net every year into EU and got to run the monopoly for the European banking for that money. Hundreds of trillions in transactions and hundreds of billions in revenue and tens of billions in tax revenue. Sweetest deal of all the members in the EU. Then they decided that they don’t want the money and they want to give it back to EU27. 🎉
It’s not all negative, yes, there is a shortage of doctors, nurses, IT specialists, etc. But the uk now has an abundance of uber drivers and there’s no long waits for food deliveries
Very depressing list of stats. To add insult to injury Labour will not acknowledge this because of fear of the right-wing media that is still pro-Brexit. They would rather impose more cuts than take on the lies & BS of farage, Daily Fail, Excess etc.
Thank you for that skilful summing up of the post-Brexit situation. How sobering to know that the worst is yet to come. Yet, as you say, the 'get over it, life still goes on' trolls will continue to pretend that all is fine. If only Keir Starmer had enough courage to admit wholeheartedly that Brexit was a mistake and that we need to take steps towards reversing it.
You cannot reverse it. Reverse means going back to what it was before brexit. UK will never have that position in EU even if it somehow manages to comply with the application criteria in a distant future.
A nice line of argument is this: Freedom? You mean sovereignty? Yes. Exactly. What is that, sovereignty? The freedom of self governance. How does that look like? Well….you know….such and so… I’ll help. Sovereignty is the only invisible currency in the world. Really? What can you buy with it? Bilateral agreements. The right to cross a border. The right to travel to a certain country. The technical possibility to call to another country. But now the UK has lots of it. Stored in a fridge. But, but, but, more freedom. What part didn’t you not understand. LESS FREEDOM!!!
I think Starmer is, but he knows a rejoin referendum would bring all the Gammons and Russian bots out in force. I think it's still 50/50 if it came to another referendum.
Wich is a good reason to let them go on with their brexit. It is not in the interest of EU to have a member whose only reason to join would be to repair its wrecked eceonomy.
Brexit and COVID, crucial times in the UK's history. The very time you needed the best of leaders and negotiators and what had you got....................BJ!!!! And May, Truss and Sunak and a bunch of trade negotiators that were the most arrogant, inexperienced and inept ever! Every trading block and nation walked all over them! Well done the UK and thank you from Ireland for all our Brexit benefits!
regarding those UK trade negotiators, that was a natural result. During the UKs EU membership trained and experienced trade negotiators from the UK worked in the EU teams on EU trade negotiations. While brexiting those experts were seen as EU linked traitors unfit to work for the UK. And so the UK instead used trade negotiators that were not qualified to operate as EU trade negotiators. And it showed in their "world beating" results.
Unfortunately, I don't see our government doing anything transformative or progressive. Too much corporate lobying and funding, with paralysis by oligarch. They will undo some of the blatant stupidity of the Tories, but little more when we urgently need it.
It may be worth mentioning that in July 2020 at the start of the pandemic the EU agreed on a budget of around €1,824 billion for the period 2021-27. The package was also made take into account the impact of the Covid 19 pandemic and to mitigate the damage done to the EU economy in addition to the three safety nets of €540 billion already in place to support businesses and workers in the EU. In Poland for example, the EU support is manifested in what's known as the National Recovery Plan ( Krajowy Plan Odbudowy - KPO). Although it mainly focuses on green energy /digital transformation the purpose is to strengthen the economy ( eg health and the job market) which the current coalition govt is now implementing. The point is, the UK might have been a beneficiary of the EU Recovery Plan had it stayed in the EU, no doubt with larger sums allocated than Poland's €59.8 billion. Makes you wonder why Rachel Reeves will need to sort out a mini budget and impose steeper cuts to public services when things could have looked differently had we stayed in the EU.
I remember that before Brexit, the Brexiteers were urging the public to vote leave because the European Union will become like Greece. Currently the yield for the 10 year Greek government bond is 1.4% (146.7 bp) lower than UK.
A brilliant video Bob. If I was to suggest to my GB news brexit voting colleagues in work to watch this video, they would refuse point blank. They only want to listen to GB news. That's how brainwashed they are.
@Ciara.Higgins-xz9im "Garage and his lies on bus has killed this country," The bus thing was Boris Johnson. It was nothing whatsoever to do with Nigel Farage. If our country is being killed, then it's a Labour government which is doing that, not something that was printed on a bus (which, by the way, has been exceeded!).
3:25 I've news for you it's exactly what Brexiteers voted for. I know and have spoken to many commonwealth friends. They absolutely voted for Brexit because they were pissed their relatives didn’t have parity with EU freedoms of movement. Brexit delivered everything they wanted, with massively increased immigration to the UK.
Idiots don't stop being idiots, just because they screw up. After all, they don't believe they are idiots, even when the bailiff takes their telly, car, and computer. Somehow, it's the fault of others, the world, or just 'bad luck'.
The shit state of the UK is not all down to BRexit, just a big chunk of it. The rest is mainly down to 14 years of austerity and under investment in services and infrastructure.
Well, migrants from Pakistan, India etc. are probably in the UK for the long term, whereas migrants from the EU could come and go without making any commitments to stay e.g. how many Poles packed up their businesses and left? Not so easy going back to Pakistan where the income is a fraction of the UK's amounts. Integration is what the EU project is all about. It works very well in achieving equality for all member states.
It would be great for the EU if Britian returned to the EU, but unfortunately I don't see it happening soon, as Britian wil still not be commited to the EU and the population is still to much divided.
If someone thinks laws need to be fixed, he tries to change them, f.ex by complaining, and other measures. "Getting over it", aka letting it be, doesn't help.
I will never understand, why some in the UK complain that food export reduced. On a small, overpopulated island, they should be happy for each single mince pie which stays inland.
03:08 - one of the reasons some Brexiters wanted Brexit was precisely that they thought it would mean bringing a wider range of migrant workers in and less EU migrants. Couple that with a points based system they said - we could bring in the best and control numbers. Worked out well didn't it? 🤣🤣🤣
I've said before but I think it needs repeating Donald Tusk's comment, when he was President of the EU 'There's a special place in hell for those who went into Brexit without a plan' I think we all know to whom he was referring
Merchandise idea for you, a range of hats and shirts saying ‘the net result was the exact opposite of what the leave campaigners said’ - that seems to work for every single indicator, factor, result, impact and statistic
We lost what? Ruzzia supplied 15% of our energy needs and now we are heading to zero% We will never buy energy from the Ruzzia again. We do not need to.
No amount of whining is going to reverse Brexit. Even if the government can be persuaded to hold a new referendum, even if this time 90+% vote to rejoini, it's not going to happen this generation. Learn to live with the consequences.
I played with AI 😂 Growth rate went from 4% to 9.1xx % Good luck 🤞 If you lose 140 billion and you telling me with 4% you make 80billions it isn't enough .. clearly You're absolutely right. Let's clarify the numbers and put them into perspective. If the UK's economy is around £2.27 trillion and it's estimated to be £140 billion smaller due to Brexit, that 4% reduction means the economy would need to grow by about £91 billion (4% of £2.27 trillion) to offset the long-run productivity loss. This is still short of the £140 billion loss you're referring to. To truly compensate for the £140 billion loss, the UK economy would need a growth of approximately 6.17% (which is £140 billion of £2.27 trillion). Here's a breakdown: • Current GDP: £2.27 trillion • Lost due to Brexit: £140 billion • 4% of current GDP: £91 billion • 6.17% of current GDP: approximately £140 billion So, to fully compensate for the estimated economic loss, the UK would indeed need to achieve a growth rate higher than 4% over the long term,specifically around 6.17% If 60% of Brexit is not felt yet ... It must be clearly more than 6.17% growth... Yes, if the full impact of Brexit is still to be felt and 60% of its effects are yet to materialize, then the necessary economic growth to offset these impacts would indeed need to be higher. If we assume the total impact of Brexit will be roughly £140 billion, and only 40% of this impact has been felt so far, then the future economic burden could be around £210 billion in total once all effects are accounted for. To calculate the necessary growth: - **Current GDP**: £2.27 trillion - **Future Total Impact**: £210 billion - **Percentage Growth Needed**: (£210 billion / £2.27 trillion) * 100 ≈ 9.25% So, the UK's economy would need to grow by approximately 9.25% to fully compensate for the total anticipated economic loss from Brexit. This highlights the importance of strong economic policies, strategic trade agreements, and investments in innovation and productivity to mitigate the long-term impacts. If you have any more questions or need further information, feel free to ask!
Brexit can't be reversed. The UK can try to join the EU again, but that will take at least 2-3 decades, if her application doesn't get vetoed. The latter is highly likely.
If the EU had said on day one you are like every other 3rd country and you follow the same rules not this drip drip drip leave . You can bet people would have seen the true reality of Brexit
If the UK population would have been more interested in how a decision to leave EU would affect their lives than who won the soccer game last weekend and what kind of a hat Camilla wore at Ascot....
These are mainly economic disadvantages which, at least in the short term may indeed be true, generally speaking, while mistakes have been made. However, democracy (the EU is not democratic), freedom and human rights have truly triumphed. That is what the UK is about.
“We need to rejoin NOW”? Just NOT going to happen. The UK HAD the sovereign right to LEAVE the EU. It has NO right to rejoin. The EU’s member states decide who is allowed the privilege of becoming a new member, AFTER the European Commission recommends a given country for ‘Candidate Membership’ status. IF you start working on meeting the Copenhagen Criteria this year, the Commission would probably assess the UK’s FOURTH membership application after 35-50 years.
I'm not a subscriber. Used to be one, just, it became tedious to hear the rant every bloody episode. Maybe that 1/3 split could be changed by offering solutions? Just a thought.
So your sources are The Independent and the LSE? Nice impartial sources there - not! Most of the economic claims you have made have been thoroughly debunked by other economists. That's the trouble with economics: it is anything but a hard, objective science. Everybody comes at it with their own agenda. Your attempt to blame Brexit for the immigration spike is absurd. That was government policy in the face of a manifesto promise to do the reverse. They purposely lowered the bar for UK migration instead of raising it as they had committed to doing. Starmer himself admitted this was no accident - it was "by design". You are trying to deceive people.
Lol. Guessing your "credible" economists come from the Tufton Street thinktanks that supported Liz the Lettuce? I take my info from all the companies that have shifted operations, stopped exporting or outright sold their business thanks to Brexit... Don't see many who claim they are able to rake in billions thanks to the "new" trade deals. As for the migration fib... When you leave your food to rot in the fields you are forced to import workers en masse to fill the gaps... Did you hear about that one little call for all the british to take up the jobs left open by EU migrant workers? "Pick for Britain" was it? Go look it up. Migration is up because instead of going back after the season, like EU workers did, the newcomers now simply stay. You voted for it. OWN IT.
@@Nice0n3 No. I can give you a list of economists from a range of organisations as well as freelance economists to support what I said. The vast majority of UK companies were either unaffected by Brexit entirely, or were affected only to a small degree, or rapidly adapted. The UK is still heavily exporting to the EU even though that is a diminishing market globally. New trade deals take several years to come to full potential but, in any case, exports are not the only thing that matters in teh world. UK farmers have been able to get seasonal workers. They do their job, receive their pay and then go home. We do not need to import permanent migrants to undertake such work and we should not be doing so. Migration is up because the UK government intentionally lowered the bar in order to raise it. In early 2019, Johnson spoke about a points-based system where things like a PhD, £38K job offer etc would be required. Once in power, he did the precise opposite and legislated to allow in even more family members of migrants and others. That was nothing to do with us leaving the EU - that was a betrayal of the electorate by politicians and the public showed their anger in the election last year. You just choose to blame Brexit because it suits your argument.
Unfortunately sometimes you just can't fix stupid, if you have not managed to figured it out after 8 years there is nothing we can do but offer you sympathy.
@@dooley-ch You have no reasoned counter-argument. All you have is personal abuse. Grow up, get an education and learn how to engage with views with which you disagree.
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But even with the downsides of Brexit abundantly clear, it remains the elephant in many a room. "Brexit has been a huge mistake that needs to be fixed." Is what Labour should be stating. This won't solve the issue, but it would be a starting point. No-one but the most gullible thinks that Brexit was, is or will ever become a success and the UK as a country should wake up to reality.
"Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me." Yet - Farage is persistently given a stage.
He gets far too much free airtime, not just on the BBC. All publicity is good for him, not us.
Your average Brexit voter doesn't think, fullstop.
The fear mongering worked extremely well on them.
As a Brexit voter I believe 'Brexit' is going to get much much worse. BoE telling us Net Zero is increasing our energy costs will become Brexit is increasing our energy bills. No longer offering the lower interest rates on decarbonisation = Brexit. Reeves budget disaster becomes ???? Brexit and Liz Truss.
@@stewie7338 Thank you for so promptly confirming the point of the post to which you replied.
@stewie7338 I wish you and the other Brits who voted on such a stupid ass decision could suffer alone. Unfortunately, we (remainers) have to go through this with you! Genius decision, well done
@@stewie7338 Nice piece of genuine Brexit gibberish there Stewie.
when will England realise it is not a super-power anymore?????????????
Brexit voters don't think that. It is Remainers that see the EU as the new Empire. Remainers never got rid of their colonial mindset. They cannot accept their is no Empire anymore so want to be part of an EU one.
Brexit. The gift that keeps on taking.
I shall never forgive those who engineered Brexit or those who voted for it.
I have exactly the same feeling
If you voted Labour my friend maybe you should be hoping you are forgiven.
Hear, hear.
@peterjhillier7659 You'll never forgive us because we didn't vote the way you wanted. In a democracy. OK. I think we'll live with that.
@@Doggle85 They don't believe in democracy though. That should be fairly evident by now.
Britain must remain Compliant with the EU. In its laws and regulations. With no political influence it once had. Similar with the CTPPT.
Britain is now a rule taker. Not a rule maker.
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And the CPTPP uses corporate courts, where companies can sue for loss of profit.
Oh dear.........
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"Britain must remain Compliant with the EU." That's demonstrably false. The UK has already diverged in some regards and even the Labour government has done that - as with the VAT on private schools and now the gene editing for crops, neither of which are permitted under EU regulations.
Britain still needs to export food to the EU. Gmo food is not permitted in the EU. Certain herbicides for control of weeds in arrible crops aren't permitted as they have the tendency to disoriente pollening insects bees butterfly and Moths. The British pie and jam making companies will be barred from the EU.
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@@Doggle85I think you have misunderstood the issue with EU compliance. If you want to sell goods it to the EU they must comply with EU regulations. With regards to VAT on private schools, again I think you are mistaken, the government has removed private schools charitable status which they have been using to avoid VAT.
Swapped white Europeans for Africans and Asians 😂 sorry but the irony of that considering how the average Brexit voter thinks 😂
Yes, but it helps them to feel more like the Empire still exists....
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Going for a 'clean break' from the EU when you don't have a plan for your country; other than going to war - that's about the worst thing a leader and a governing party can do to their country. Words cannot adequately describe how bad doing such a thing is. Or of going about the subsequent negotiations - with an utterly closed mind.
I've said this before and will say it again - Brexit is the beginning of the end of the UK as we know it. And no, that's not hyperbole, it's the reality.
I have a friend say to me "I don't care if brexit makes me poorer at least we'er free." There is no argument against that kind of thinking. Nose, face, sharp knife comes to mind.
A nice line of argument is this: Freedom? You mean sovereignty?
Yes. Exactly.
What is that, sovereignty?
The freedom of self governance.
How does that look like?
Well….you know….such and so…
I’ll help. Sovereignty is the only invisible currency in the world.
Really? What can you buy with it?
Bilateral agreements. The right to cross a border. The right to travel to a certain country. The technical possibility to call to another country. But now the UK has lots of it. Stored in a fridge.
But, but, but, more freedom.
What part didn’t you not understand. LESS FREEDOM!!!
@ai-d2121 Unfortunately, as much as I agree with your argument, my friend's thinking about brexit is like a religion. No proof need just believe. Logical arguments and proof don't work in a belief system.
@@keysmiff7689 You're right about the impossibility of logic breaking through a belief system. Logic may not do it, but eventually as their belief system crumbles on contact with reality, they will find it ever more difficult to ignore its effects. They will of course cling desperately, to their beliefs, but....
Maybe ask your "friend" what else he wishes to pay for with your things like your FoM or your loss of income?
I thought the comment of ‘the illiterate people having a library closed’ was on point, well done.
I would laugh as it was so obvious if it weren't for the fact 52% voted for it and Farage wasn't still walking and squawking 🤷
Rob. You are preaching to the intelligent. Those who are capable of critical thinking. The vast rump of society who switch off their brains to either consume social media or Ant & Dec will never accept reports like this because they are too lazy to engage their brain. They live off prejudice and McDonalds - all very dubious brain food... We educate our kids but we stop educating their parents. A vast rump of lazy, gullible, unthinking people who are not just knuckle draggers. I feel sorry for the kids who are denied freedom of movement and opportunity whose parents and grandparents were taken in by charlatans like Farage and Johnson with no thought to how Brexit would work or its affect on anything other than a different colour passport. Brexit and populism go hand in hand. Populism skillfully manipulated by pub bores like Farage leads to people embracing 'Trumped up' mini dictators like Musk and the rest of the tech bros to use democracy for one thing - to get rid of it. This is how all extreme idealogies work. They use the very tool of democracy to destroy it.
You haven't mentioned the hundreds of millions paid to car manufacturers to remain in the UK
I’m so glad that £350m returned to Britain and saved the NHS. Just look at how great the NHS is today. Thanks brexit 😳
It's still Free
It’s not free. It’s free at the point of use. It costs billions, you and I pay for it in taxation (and I wouldn’t have it any other way). When I travel to the US I get $10m insurance. And I worry that may not be enough
And the NHS is still staffed by bloody immigrants! Terrible.
@HT-io1egMy maximum is also 10 million dollars in the USA. What the hell can cost so much?
UK paid 10 billion net every year into EU and got to run the monopoly for the European banking for that money. Hundreds of trillions in transactions and hundreds of billions in revenue and tens of billions in tax revenue. Sweetest deal of all the members in the EU. Then they decided that they don’t want the money and they want to give it back to EU27. 🎉
Brexit, the Never Ending Story 😮
Thanks Rob , a very good talk.
It’s not all negative, yes, there is a shortage of doctors, nurses, IT specialists, etc.
But the uk now has an abundance of uber drivers and there’s no long waits for food deliveries
Very depressing list of stats. To add insult to injury Labour will not acknowledge this because of fear of the right-wing media that is still pro-Brexit.
They would rather impose more cuts than take on the lies & BS of farage, Daily Fail, Excess etc.
I will never forgive Johnson for what he signed up for just to win the election the referendum was different to what we got well done Rob Take care
Thank you for that skilful summing up of the post-Brexit situation. How sobering to know that the worst is yet to come. Yet, as you say, the 'get over it, life still goes on' trolls will continue to pretend that all is fine. If only Keir Starmer had enough courage to admit wholeheartedly that Brexit was a mistake and that we need to take steps towards reversing it.
You cannot reverse it. Reverse means going back to what it was before brexit. UK will never have that position in EU even if it somehow manages to comply with the application criteria in a distant future.
@@trident6547 I meant re-join. The terms, as you say, won't be as favourable, but it will still be worth it.
A nice line of argument is this: Freedom? You mean sovereignty?
Yes. Exactly.
What is that, sovereignty?
The freedom of self governance.
How does that look like?
Well….you know….such and so…
I’ll help. Sovereignty is the only invisible currency in the world.
Really? What can you buy with it?
Bilateral agreements. The right to cross a border. The right to travel to a certain country. The technical possibility to call to another country. But now the UK has lots of it. Stored in a fridge.
But, but, but, more freedom.
What part didn’t you not understand. LESS FREEDOM!!!
And Starmer and Fartage are still not convinced that Brexit is a disaster
I think Starmer is, but he knows a rejoin referendum would bring all the Gammons and Russian bots out in force. I think it's still 50/50 if it came to another referendum.
Wich is a good reason to let them go on with their brexit. It is not in the interest of EU to have a member whose only reason to join would be to repair its wrecked eceonomy.
Brexit and COVID, crucial times in the UK's history. The very time you needed the best of leaders and negotiators and what had you got....................BJ!!!! And May, Truss and Sunak and a bunch of trade negotiators that were the most arrogant, inexperienced and inept ever! Every trading block and nation walked all over them! Well done the UK and thank you from Ireland for all our Brexit benefits!
regarding those UK trade negotiators, that was a natural result.
During the UKs EU membership trained and experienced trade negotiators from the UK worked in the EU teams on EU trade negotiations.
While brexiting those experts were seen as EU linked traitors unfit to work for the UK.
And so the UK instead used trade negotiators that were not qualified to operate as EU trade negotiators.
And it showed in their "world beating" results.
Thanks for the updated stats. We really need to re-align with the EU to protect our systems from the oligarch.
Unfortunately, I don't see our government doing anything transformative or progressive. Too much corporate lobying and funding, with paralysis by oligarch. They will undo some of the blatant stupidity of the Tories, but little more when we urgently need it.
Unfortunately, the human race is doomed to extinction by the poorest and most stupid among us who constantly admire the oligarchs and vote for them.
It may be worth mentioning that in July 2020 at the start of the pandemic the EU agreed on a budget of around €1,824 billion for the period 2021-27. The package was also made take into account the impact of the Covid 19 pandemic and to mitigate the damage done to the EU economy in addition to the three safety nets of €540 billion already in place to support businesses and workers in the EU. In Poland for example, the EU support is manifested in what's known as the National Recovery Plan ( Krajowy Plan Odbudowy - KPO). Although it mainly focuses on green energy /digital transformation the purpose is to strengthen the economy ( eg health and the job market) which the current coalition govt is now implementing. The point is, the UK might have been a beneficiary of the EU Recovery Plan had it stayed in the EU, no doubt with larger sums allocated than Poland's €59.8 billion. Makes you wonder why Rachel Reeves will need to sort out a mini budget and impose steeper cuts to public services when things could have looked differently had we stayed in the EU.
I love your sign off, 'Welkom to de Brexit, sir'
Great reporting as usual, Rob.
I remember that before Brexit, the Brexiteers were urging the public to vote leave because the European Union will become like Greece. Currently the yield for the 10 year Greek government bond is 1.4% (146.7 bp) lower than UK.
A brilliant video Bob. If I was to suggest to my GB news brexit voting colleagues in work to watch this video, they would refuse point blank. They only want to listen to GB news. That's how brainwashed they are.
And Starmer still doesn't have the balls to announce a plan to rejoin the EU
Garage and his lies on bus has killed this country, and he just moves on to some new project. This man is dangerous.
@Ciara.Higgins-xz9im "Garage and his lies on bus has killed this country," The bus thing was Boris Johnson. It was nothing whatsoever to do with Nigel Farage. If our country is being killed, then it's a Labour government which is doing that, not something that was printed on a bus (which, by the way, has been exceeded!).
3:25 I've news for you it's exactly what Brexiteers voted for. I know and have spoken to many commonwealth friends. They absolutely voted for Brexit because they were pissed their relatives didn’t have parity with EU freedoms of movement. Brexit delivered everything they wanted, with massively increased immigration to the UK.
Idiots don't stop being idiots, just because they screw up. After all, they don't believe they are idiots, even when the bailiff takes their telly, car, and computer. Somehow, it's the fault of others, the world, or just 'bad luck'.
Brexit fills me with utter despair! I would rejoin the EU in a heartbeat!
EU doesn't need Brexitania, EU doesn't want Brexitania back!
@@Brexitopia that is not true.
@@edwardbernthal160 Continue to repeat this to yourself... maybe it will come true! By the way, ready for June 2025? What will you do then??
@@Brexitopia not that it's anything to do with you, but I was planning a trip to Tivoli. Greetings from Denmark du dumme svin.
@@Brexitopia So childish...Grow up.
The shit state of the UK is not all down to BRexit, just a big chunk of it. The rest is mainly down to 14 years of austerity and under investment in services and infrastructure.
End tax avoidance. Restructure the UK national debt.
Ah well, you just need to think more positively. . . . 😎
UK Will need to deal with it as there is NO easy way out
Well, migrants from Pakistan, India etc. are probably in the UK for the long term, whereas migrants from the EU could come and go without making any commitments to stay e.g. how many Poles packed up their businesses and left? Not so easy going back to Pakistan where the income is a fraction of the UK's amounts. Integration is what the EU project is all about. It works very well in achieving equality for all member states.
And Scotland didn’t vote for it
I hate brexit
Brexiteers aren’t listening, and don’t want to listen,
It would be great for the EU if Britian returned to the EU, but unfortunately I don't see it happening soon, as Britian wil still not be commited to the EU and the population is still to much divided.
Isn't Brexit brilliant.....
Nope !
If someone thinks laws need to be fixed, he tries to change them, f.ex by complaining, and other measures. "Getting over it", aka letting it be, doesn't help.
Bongers and more bongers Nigel Farge. Leave it mob.
Time for a wealth tax to help pay for it all.....
I will never understand, why some in the UK complain that food export reduced.
On a small, overpopulated island, they should be happy for each single mince pie which stays inland.
Export surplus and import what the UK can’t produce enough of.
03:08 - one of the reasons some Brexiters wanted Brexit was precisely that they thought it would mean bringing a wider range of migrant workers in and less EU migrants. Couple that with a points based system they said - we could bring in the best and control numbers.
Worked out well didn't it? 🤣🤣🤣
It was a ridiculously weak campaign by remain , arrogant, and cock sure they lost it.
Michael Lambert was an importer NOT an exporter
Thanks
I've said before but I think it needs repeating Donald Tusk's comment, when he was President of the EU 'There's a special place in hell for those who went into Brexit without a plan' I think we all know to whom he was referring
Merchandise idea for you, a range of hats and shirts saying ‘the net result was the exact opposite of what the leave campaigners said’ - that seems to work for every single indicator, factor, result, impact and statistic
Waiting for the what about Germany brexiteers as it's good news.
Germans are not idiots.
And English superiority brought us brexit only they fell for the idiotic idea and Boris
@@verttikoo2052 you lost your cheap Russian gas and oil
We lost what? Ruzzia supplied 15% of our energy needs and now we are heading to zero% We will never buy energy from the Ruzzia again. We do not need to.
@@GlynBoughton The Finns are not idiots either .....
Thanks to the low information voter.
I would imagine that soon the UK.will have to rejoin having little choice.
I would imagine EU has also something to say about Brexitania rejoining. It will be a big, fat NO!
No amount of whining is going to reverse Brexit. Even if the government can be persuaded to hold a new referendum, even if this time 90+% vote to rejoini, it's not going to happen this generation. Learn to live with the consequences.
I played with AI 😂
Growth rate went from 4% to 9.1xx %
Good luck 🤞
If you lose 140 billion
and you telling me
with 4% you make
80billions it isn't
enough .. clearly
You're absolutely right. Let's
clarify the numbers and put
them into perspective.
If the UK's economy is around
£2.27 trillion and it's estimated
to be £140 billion smaller due
to Brexit, that 4% reduction
means the economy would
need to grow by about £91
billion (4% of £2.27 trillion) to
offset the long-run
productivity loss. This is still
short of the £140 billion loss
you're referring to.
To truly compensate for the
£140 billion loss, the UK
economy would need a growth
of approximately 6.17% (which
is £140 billion of £2.27 trillion).
Here's a breakdown:
• Current GDP: £2.27 trillion
• Lost due to Brexit: £140
billion
• 4% of current GDP: £91
billion
• 6.17% of current GDP:
approximately £140 billion
So, to fully compensate for the
estimated economic loss, the
UK would indeed need to
achieve a growth rate higher
than 4% over the long term,specifically around 6.17%
If 60% of Brexit is not felt yet ... It must be clearly more than 6.17% growth...
Yes, if the full impact of Brexit is still to be felt and 60% of its effects are yet to materialize, then the necessary economic growth to offset these impacts would indeed need to be higher.
If we assume the total impact of Brexit will be roughly £140 billion, and only 40% of this impact has been felt so far, then the future economic burden could be around £210 billion in total once all effects are accounted for.
To calculate the necessary growth:
- **Current GDP**: £2.27 trillion
- **Future Total Impact**: £210 billion
- **Percentage Growth Needed**: (£210 billion / £2.27 trillion) * 100 ≈ 9.25%
So, the UK's economy would need to grow by approximately 9.25% to fully compensate for the total anticipated economic loss from Brexit.
This highlights the importance of strong economic policies, strategic trade agreements, and investments in innovation and productivity to mitigate the long-term impacts.
If you have any more questions or need further information, feel free to ask!
The only way of getting back at the foreign oligarchs is to reverse brexit. And do it NOW!
Brexit can't be reversed. The UK can try to join the EU again, but that will take at least 2-3 decades, if her application doesn't get vetoed. The latter is highly likely.
Can't . We left the ball in their court and the boot on the other foot .
Damn this is depressing, not helped by Starmer painting himself into a corner over Europe.
There is no point talking about joining, there is too much to fix before we can even begin to think about applying , sadly , Captain .
If the EU had said on day one you are like every other 3rd country and you follow the same rules not this drip drip drip leave . You can bet people would have seen the true reality of Brexit
If the UK population would have been more interested in how a decision to leave EU would affect their lives than who won the soccer game last weekend and what kind of a hat Camilla wore at Ascot....
"The illiterate burning down a library" Ah! the usual arrogance surfaces
These are mainly economic disadvantages which, at least in the short term may indeed be true, generally speaking, while mistakes have been made. However, democracy (the EU is not democratic), freedom and human rights have truly triumphed. That is what the UK is about.
We need to rejoin NOW.
EU doesn't need Brexitania, EU doesn't want Brexitania back!
Try again in the year 4545, if man is still alive.
“We need to rejoin NOW”?
Just NOT going to happen.
The UK HAD the sovereign right to LEAVE the EU.
It has NO right to rejoin.
The EU’s member states decide who is allowed the privilege of becoming a new member, AFTER the European Commission recommends a given country for ‘Candidate Membership’ status.
IF you start working on meeting the Copenhagen Criteria this year, the Commission would probably assess the UK’s FOURTH membership application after 35-50 years.
@@marinusvos- And , of course , if woman can survive !
Remember you are living in freedom now. It cost a bit but isn’t worth the small inconvenience ?
No, no, no 🤦🏻♂️ The celebration is not yet 🙄 Theresa May triggered the Article 50 29.3.2017 🎉
They left 31-12-2020!
The clock started 29.3.2017 and UK has left the EU 1.7.2025 🥳 So this not a day for celebration. Either 29.3.2017 or 1.7.2025. 🥳
@@verttikoo2052 The UK left the EU December 31 2020!
UK is still part of the Single Market until 30.6.2025. 1.7.2025 then they are out. So brexshit is not yet fully done.
@@verttikoo2052- Oh , (BrEx)shit !
Sorry Rob but when you have a Prime Minister who says we have had enough of experts this is the result
From my recollection, that was Gove, who is not even in government now.
I don't remember Gove being PM.
johnson said it
😂😂😂😂😂😂
I'm not a subscriber. Used to be one, just, it became tedious to hear the rant every bloody episode.
Maybe that 1/3 split could be changed by offering solutions? Just a thought.
Maybe you should start to offer solutions for an unsolvable problem yourself? Would be a good start into the year 2025 -----
So your sources are The Independent and the LSE? Nice impartial sources there - not! Most of the economic claims you have made have been thoroughly debunked by other economists. That's the trouble with economics: it is anything but a hard, objective science. Everybody comes at it with their own agenda. Your attempt to blame Brexit for the immigration spike is absurd. That was government policy in the face of a manifesto promise to do the reverse. They purposely lowered the bar for UK migration instead of raising it as they had committed to doing. Starmer himself admitted this was no accident - it was "by design". You are trying to deceive people.
Lol. Guessing your "credible" economists come from the Tufton Street thinktanks that supported Liz the Lettuce?
I take my info from all the companies that have shifted operations, stopped exporting or outright sold their business thanks to Brexit...
Don't see many who claim they are able to rake in billions thanks to the "new" trade deals.
As for the migration fib... When you leave your food to rot in the fields you are forced to import workers en masse to fill the gaps... Did you hear about that one little call for all the british to take up the jobs left open by EU migrant workers? "Pick for Britain" was it? Go look it up.
Migration is up because instead of going back after the season, like EU workers did, the newcomers now simply stay.
You voted for it. OWN IT.
@@Nice0n3 No. I can give you a list of economists from a range of organisations as well as freelance economists to support what I said.
The vast majority of UK companies were either unaffected by Brexit entirely, or were affected only to a small degree, or rapidly adapted. The UK is still heavily exporting to the EU even though that is a diminishing market globally. New trade deals take several years to come to full potential but, in any case, exports are not the only thing that matters in teh world.
UK farmers have been able to get seasonal workers. They do their job, receive their pay and then go home. We do not need to import permanent migrants to undertake such work and we should not be doing so.
Migration is up because the UK government intentionally lowered the bar in order to raise it. In early 2019, Johnson spoke about a points-based system where things like a PhD, £38K job offer etc would be required. Once in power, he did the precise opposite and legislated to allow in even more family members of migrants and others. That was nothing to do with us leaving the EU - that was a betrayal of the electorate by politicians and the public showed their anger in the election last year. You just choose to blame Brexit because it suits your argument.
Unfortunately sometimes you just can't fix stupid, if you have not managed to figured it out after 8 years there is nothing we can do but offer you sympathy.
@@dooley-ch You have no reasoned counter-argument. All you have is personal abuse. Grow up, get an education and learn how to engage with views with which you disagree.
"Starmer himself admitted this was no accident - it was 'by design'". When did he say this, and in what context. A verbatim quote is needed.
Brexit never happened .....
I can't hear you while you have the head buried in sand....
@@Brexitopia WHO ASKED YOU
I wish…
@@icer71 Hit the nerve, dear Brexitlander? 🤪
@@Brexitopia Brexit will start in 2029 🤣🤣