I work in freight forwarding, mainly for the european market. I've seen that a good few smaller companies have stopped exporting due to the cost, there is no doubt that Brexit has reduced trade, even imports have reduced. The knock on effect is greater than people realise and it has a direct effect on the economy.
I remember hearing that the UK part loaded a lot, by which I mean a container was likely to have up to 6 different items from 6 different suppliers. The paperwork was always going to be huge as a result. The consequences of one incorrect document on 6 exporters was going to be more impactful that for global importers in the EU as they were likely to have 1:1 container and importer. That issue would mean foreign drivers dropping off something into the UK would have greater difficulties and delays taking return loads. So they would not want to come. As a result, along with the natural shortage of UK drivers doing this hard job, would be a sudden increase in the shortage of drivers. This is so simple to understand. Yet.... people refused to accept it.
Brotip: when you fall into the toilet, don't try pulling yourself out by the chain. Age old joke, but it would seem brexiteers arw trying exactly that.
I’m a Norwegian who was studying in the UK right before Brexit happened. Whenever I would hear British people looking to Norway as an ideal example of what a future outside of the EU would look like I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. Norway has to follow all the regulations set by the EU without having any say in the decision making. We also don’t get many of the benefits…at the time I was paying significantly more to attend uni than my EU-country peers. Why anyone would vote leave is beyond me…
... it is because the British are rather racist and believe in their own superiority. They voted for brexit thinking they would get to keep all of the benefits of EU membership and then some.
@@johnwilkes7624 The reasons why Norway went the EEA route are complex and rooted in history. Basically, the Norwegian economy is dominated by 2 things: oil and gas, and fish. Those two things matter a lot to Norway. Beyond that, Norway, being a relatively small country in terms of population, was happy to outsource its rule-making to the EU via the EEA because it figured that if the banking and insurance rules, for example, were good enough for the EU they were OK for Norway too.
The classic answer will probably be: "suvernty innit!" But when you follow up with the question 'and how do you personally benefit from this sovereignty?' ... *crickets*
@@maartenaalsmeer Sovereignty, the power to make and implement decisions, is strongly linked to financial status. Brexit is costing the British treasury £40 billion a year, or in other words: £40 billion less sovereignty. For those questioning that connection between sovereignty and finance , I have the following question: how did things go with the Truss mini-budget?
Theresa May brought a deal to parliament 3 times, which was rejected 3 times, including by Labour MPs. She resigned over that, and her deal contained a Customs Union with the EU! The English people then elected Boris Johnson and his "Oven Ready" deal...it was at a time when ALL British newspapers comments sections were rife with British superiority and scathing comments about the EU and us EUropeans.... this was very much an English project lead by nutjob politicians and vociferously supported by the English public (with the support of NI Unionists).
Hey, Bubba, what about the sleazeball Jeremy Corbyn, TOO! He was FOR BREXIT, although he was too much of a COWARD AND WEASEL to commit his entire party to it, cuz he liked his privileges as Fearless Leader.
Starmer has been absolutely dire on this, wonder if he's just another puppet doing the "men in grey suits" bidding, he's the biggest let down ever, the rest did what we expected.
@@mickyg6981he is actually right. EU will not tolerate cherrypicking. Te rest of the British, brexiteers or not, seems to live i la la land. Is there no schools in England. This things are tough in civics classes.
I read a statement issued in an article from a EU member citizen stating that many are lately glad that the UK isn’t part of the EU coz they were difficult to work with in the first place and many people living under the EU have noticed how quickly things are getting done faster without the UK’s arrogant attitude.
Will keep fond memories of a trip to the UK BEFORE 2016 in my heart and my studies in London and the student exchanges and visiting friends there and taking my children to London... . NO MORE, NO MORE. Love from the continent.
Some, perhaps many, of us will miss you. At least those of us who thought of ourselves as fellow Europeans. Warm regards from a once half-decent country.
Why bother? Europe is a much bigger place. You' ve already visited just like me. They don't want us? Who cares? There are so many other places in the EU (and even outside) we can still visit with no problems at all. Enjoy them.
*Terrific journalism Rob. I'm a 68 year old OAP living on Hastings Seafront, looking out of my front window at the English Channel ( **_wishing I was on the other side of it!_** ) and feeling pretty cheesed-off... until I watched this. But now I'm right cheered-up. Someone telling the truth is always cheering, perhaps because it so rarely happens these days, especially when it comes to Brexit. I shall share. **_CHEERS!_* 👍😎☕🥃🥖🧀
Yes got to feel for Rob. As a boy who grew up on a Council Estate all my friends lost their businesses supplying English speaking actors to foreign theatres. Believe you me David you see a white van man driving down the motorway I guarantee you its full of English speaking actors for foreign theatre now being supplied on the cheap. I've got the same feeling I had when James O'Brien said his job was harder than manual labour.
@@stewie7338 Hi stewie, please don’t stereotype people who grew up on council estates, as a small business owner who has been affected by Brexit, I find your comment a tad offensive.
All of this is because the Brexiters wanted corruption, tax evasion and others wanted racism, nationalism and English so called pride in a way they did not want to be an equal partner with the Europeans but back to the dead empire. They wanted lawless UK, no regulations, no taxes. More like a jungle. We will never get over it. Thank you very much for this brilliant video Rob and have a nice weekend.
I’m terribly sorry to say that you’re quite right. I debated one such Brexit proponent and he actually did argue that the post-Brexit Britain will fabulously profit from what he described as “leveraging _loopholes_ in (international) law and trading rules”. And when I asked him if he thought it was a good idea to rely on “loopholes” for the future of your country, he called me naïve… The irony.
Quite right. Brexit was based on a fantasy that the UK would become some kind of libertarian, deregulated utopia where the already wealthy could make even more money without troubling themselves with such inconveniences as workers' rights and environmental and consumer protections. It had nothing to do with the national interest.
@@vencik_krpo He called you naive because he only cares about his pockets rather than the wellbeing the country. He is not a patriot and it is the same greedy Brexiters who accuse remainers of being traitors. They twist the truth because they are evil. Idiotic Leave voters never understood the motives of these selfish greedy people. They just followed them blindly because they told them we will get rid of EU immigrants they then replaced them with tripled numbers from India, Nigeria, philippines etc and deprived them of freedom of movement rights in the EU. The UK has become more like Russia that promotes greedy oligarchs' with no future.
@@lloydbelle3406 Well, I could offer you another such dissonant idea: once, a Brexiteer told me that Britain had to leave the EU in order to become truly democratic ("Brussels bureaucrats" and all that) and that people of each member of the union had the right to decide whether they want to stay or leave. And so I asked him, being such a democrat, if he was in favour of Scottish independence referendum then. His reply: yes... but not _now_ , you see, *this* is not the right time... I said: yup, right, the "right time" is whenever you're quite sure of the result, right? ;-)
Rather than saying "Brexit hasn't even happened yet" they should be saying "Brexit hasn't even begun to really bite yet". Euro based financial transactions migration?
@@mfredholm the final deadline for Euro clearances EU Banking and all EU financial services is due to be completed on June 30/2025 because now almost complete as more and more are already brought back to the EU and Euro clearances into Euro zone and spread among them Especially the Netherlands stock market the birth place of the stock exchange in 1602 for market drivites then France ,Germany,Italy ,Spain, Ireland and Portugal for Banking and financial services for traders and EU citizens Banking this transactions earned for Brits and the city of London generated close to 3 trillion Euros per annum and the UK earned by taxax close to 1 trillion Euros per annum and let us not forget the UK only had this privilege because its membership of the EU and when the Euro zone governments and the charge let by France and took the UK to ECJ(European court of Justice) to remove the Euro clearances from the UK as none member of the Euro zone but the ECJ sided with UK and rendered their verdict in 2014 saying the UK has the right as any EU member nation to manage any of the EU financial aspects including the Euro clearances the irony is after 2 years of that favourable verdict for the UK decided to leave the EU all together and now have no legal rights whatsoever to manage any EU finances including the Euro clearances and now all that is coming back to the EU and all the wishes and deep held desire of all of the EU countries and Euro zone coming true without taking the UK to the ECJ and the UK itself did the heavy lifting for the by leaving the our union on their own free will and the UK is no longer of the ECJ problem period.greetings from A very proud Dutchie and EU citizen.
@@EllieD.Violet And to think that when some EU countries , like France, protested that a non eurozone country seemed to have a monopoly in euro based financial transactions the ECJ ruled that a prohibition would be discriminatory against an EU member country. Now that caveat no longer exists and slowly but surely, as the EuroNext transactional platforms are enhanced and new ones come on line the City will be bled white, at least as far as euro transactions are concerned
Brexit isn't ALL bad. Well, it probably IS for UK people in the UK. But I live in France, and post Brexit cooperation between the UK and EU is much worse, or even non-existent. I.E. money in a UK bank account is well nigh inaccessible to various French government authorities. Three cheers for Brexit !! That's a strictly PERSONAL, SELFISH point of view. But yes, I know. Brexit is pretty 💩💩☠️ otherwise.......
Course not. If you googled the effects of brexit, befire the vote, you wpukd have read all about all that has happened, from all economists and experts. But racist hate is more attractive to half this shithole country
Yes , the E.U. can't disperse the millions upon millions of illegals to the U.K. What are coming across the channel is a trickle . The far right will soon take over in the E.U. Sovereignty is a wonderful thing . Even my Hungarian neighbours who have just returned from a trip to Hungary are glad to be back home in Britain .
An full inquiry which reveals the Brexit impact statement would be a good start; but where's the incentive for that when the Labour leader says "Make Brexit Work"?!
A friend of mine own and runs a confectionery manufacturing business in the Republic of Ireland. Due to the close relationship between the UK and Ireland, he used to source all his spare parts from the UK, as much of the equipment originated there. However, he is now reconsidering this approach because the cost of a spare part he used to pay £9 for has recently surged to £89, likely due to tariffs and other factors. He is shifting his equipment purchases toward suppliers within the EU. This shift is likely to have a negative impact on mid-sized businesses in the UK, as many manufacturers in the Republic of Ireland are facing similar challenges.
@cormackeenan A lot of Irish companies and businesses are discovering that supplies, machinery and components previously sourced from Britain are also available from other suppliers in the EU. Generally speaking, the EU-sourced items are cheaper, and often of higher quality. POST-Brixit, it is now much easier to source from EU suppliers. Far less paperwork, far less expense, far less hassle overall.....
@@gloin10 Something a lot of rejoiners seem to forget, even if they could reverse Brexit with a magic wand, those changed suppliers would still be better than the old UK ones. The old UK suppliers might even have gone out of buissness. The buissness once lost most likely will never return. Noone can afford to wait with their production for the UK to come back some day.
@@Ooze-cl5tx That is true. Changing a supply chain is not something you want to do every other year. Once it is up and running with a trustworthy supplier there has to be some really significant benefits to go back to a former one.
I think we all have to live with the thought that economically nothing is going to get better for us outside the EU. That means that things are going to stay bad for many, many MANY years to come. No EU membership - no recovering trade, no recovering trade - no recovering economy. How hard is that to understand?
And what makes you think the eventual passage of years is going to allow things to improve? The section of the public and politicians who supported this disaster that since passing of the Empire, Queen Victoria, Francis Drake, and a history of power and plunder the world has changed and our reluctance (sovereignty) to change has imposed on the UK the biggest disaster since the last war. Brexit removed the Great out of Great Britain and reduced it to an island without any influence stuck between the USA and Europe. Stupidity beyond belief.
Another deluded Rejoiner. Read the Draghi Report about the future of the EU.?? And listen to what Macron said. The EU and Economic Growth are two completely unrelated concepts. ! About as relevant as the Austro Hungarian Empire...
Brexit is like syphilis. 2016 we had the minor primary stage, then in remission until 2021 with the secondary. We now wait for the tertiary, which will rot us from the inside out.
Lord Snooty said food prices would come down 20% if we left ! All imports have gone up because the Pound has dropped in value by 20% when we left! Sadly the moronic electorate believed Boris and company!
The English still talking as if they have a choice. You're not getting back in. Starmer is definitely right about that. Who would ever trust a deal with a nation that breaks every treaty it has ever signed? Sometimes before they even signed it? Please...
So glad they are out. I don't want them back and there's millions of decent Europeans who don't want the English liars and treaty breakers back either.
Not to mention that we can't risk Labour rejoining only for the Tories to restart the whole nightmarish process of leaving once again in five years. Starmer is right, the Union will not even consider the UK rejoining as long as there is no broad consensus in the UK, and that will take many years...
Exactly, I keep telling them, the UK will not be let back in because Europe will not risk Brexit 2.0. The UK political system is too volatile! This Brexit nightmare is self-inflicted and is forever! Enjoy your solitary confinement, I feel sorry for the remainers but ce la vie [such is life] 🤣🤣
@@PMoon-r5s Any negotiation would start with demands the UK will never concede to. Gibraltar? Spanish again. And that's just for starters. All the goodwill is gone. They're no longer at the table. Now they are on it.
I sincerely hope that the French are right when they said , expect a 15hr delay at sea ports after November and I sincerely hope its only a 15hr delay on a good with moderate traffic. May I also say that I sincerely hope that these kind of delays will be exactly the same at all airports for any holidaymakers travelling to the EU. This would give me immense satisfaction knowing that all holidays to destinations in the EU are absolutely ruined on the way out and on the way back. I think that all brexiteers will wish they had never heard of brexit or Nigel Farage. Expressing my hatred of brexit helps me cope with it. Thank you, Bob, for a great video .
Sadly, even after eight years since Brexit, the worst of Brexit - ruin and decay - is yet to come and poor Britons have not yet really begun to suffer. Churchill once promised the British people “blood, sweat and tears” to win the Second World War; but this time with Brexit it will not be to win a war, but to lose forever their primacy among the great nations of the world. How on earth could Britons commit this kind of suicide as a country and commit such a brutal crime against themselves?
As an aside, Stalin built his empire by WWII, while the British empire crumbled. The British 'win' is nowt but spin. Churchill understood: 'To prevent another war in Europe, we will need something like the United States of Europe'. (1946). And the Remain campaign didn't use that quote. Unforgivable.
I disagree with Truss' brexit blunder being failing to exclude shipbuilding. Utter nonsense. That wasn't on the cards. Thinking it was is typical British thinking. Not brexit thinking, but British. The oozing superiority and how special they are. No. No having a cake and eat it, no cherries on top, no special bespoke deals. We don't want any of that with the UK. The UK in our union was terrible enough already. One big comprehensive deal is bad enough already because the UK doesn't want to keep itself to a deal. Imagine if we had a thousand deals on the side. The UK then would not adhere to a single one of them unless adherence would demand inaction.
Rob, you really should have included JRM adamantly and endlessly repeating the pre-Brexit lie that “the delays will not be at Dover, they will be at Calais”. He never said that sentence without repeating at least twice, as if constant repetition would somehow make it true.
In 2016, I was the only person in a factory of 450 people in the north of England who dealt with export regulations, issues, changes, etc. and without even knowing the deal that would be agreed, I told anyone who asked or who would listen (most wouldn't) that brexit would be bad for the UK. The other person in my office who said the same thing when asked was the 1 person in the factory who dealt with non EU imports. The factory got closed down in 2018, the work, ironically moved to the EU, and as far as I know is no longer a production site, but a storage facility. Given my experience of export problem solving I could probably have earnt good money providing export solutions to small companies, I chose not to. Because I knew I would hate having to work with idiots who voted for something with no understanding of what they were doing, would hate living with the issues I was certain brexit would cause, and hate the intolerance I saw within a week of the referendum result, so instead of using the export experience I had, I decided to take my redundancy money, grab my pensions and leave the UK, take early retirement and move to SE Asia. I followed UK news for about 2 years, but quite frankly it was so depressing I stopped. When vids like this pop into my YT list I watch them, but I can't usually muster the enthusiasm to comment. The problems of today and the future is the fallout from a bad decision that was taken due to the lies, half truths, misinformation and utter ignorance of politicians, business leaders, media, and people alike. 8 years on and far too many of those same people are adding denial to the list mentioned. It was all so utterly pointless and could have been avoided had people stopped thinking we were the best thing since sliced bread, and accepted that the reason we didn't have an empire is because we took it in the first place, and leaving the EU wouldn't make it reappear.
Great reporting 🙏❤️ thanks so much. On a daily basis I try to find polite ways to discuss the effects of Brexit on my business & prices with my patients (mainly elderly) who voted for it, but can’t see the connection, it’s desperately sad.
Ciao I'm italian, unfortunately people don't learn from other people's mistakes or from history. Sovereignist and anti-european voices are being raised all over Europe. As a "small citizen" i think this is a very serious mistake. We, as europe (including uk), are the pinnacle of the world, socially, culturally, ethically and morally. If only we were more united, together with uk, we would be very strong and we would leave only crumbs to everyone else. I'll give you a stupid example: have you ever thought about how many medals europe won overall, including uk, at the last olympics? China 91 Usa 126 EU + UK 277! There's nothing left for anyone! ANYONE! Think about what we could do economically, militarily and socially if we were less selfish. That's why everyone wants us divided! We miss you! Claudio
What are you still talking about ? It is done, as an EU citizen for us this is a done story… we don’t talk about this anymore, we think this was finally a good thing. UK was never a full member asking always for exceptions
I can understand your anger but it is what it is. Even if the UK was to re-apply for EU membership I doubt whether it would even be considered by the EU. If and it's a huge if, the UK was reinstated, the terms of membership would exclude all of the favourable conditions negotiated before the initial membership. Take your axe, grind it and hunt for the traitors that lied to the public, made promises that could never be fulfilled and lined their own pockets at the same time. Expose the corruption and those really behind Brexit.
I think the eu wouldn't have many issues with the uk comming back. Getting all 27 countries to agree will be the major issue. This could take decades, if ever.
The people of Kent have asked me to remind drivers who find themselves sitting in queues for 15 hours, keep your engine running at all times and use the bushes at the roadside if you need to go to the toilet (you know, celebrate your new hard won Brexit freedoms).
I totally agree. It's amazing how many Brexiteers still visit channels like this and try to argue that Brexit was great and going fine. Talk about wilful ignorance.
Farage is nothing, but a motor mouth shill for the super-rich who are lately obtaining citizenship in EU countries by investment, leaving the U.K. impoverished.
Yes, I understand the Aston Uni report uses the _value_ of trade goods whereas BRexiters tend to use volume or inflation unadjusted values and/or services exports (whichever suits their current excuses). The fact remains that the UK, a "trade intensive" country (as it has virtually no natural resources to exploit) needs _high-value_ exports to earn a decent crust as the majority of high-value importers are right on our doorstep! But facts like these ("Asia is growing faster" - whilst not importing high-value British cars or machine tools) escapes BRexiters entirely.
I travel a lot between London and Paris using Eurostar. On a recent trip, there was a software glitch with the automatic gates at the border in Paris which meant that each passport had to be visually checked. Even those with an EU passport - as I have. This caused a delay - for me - of over three hours. Meanwhile the Eurostar from Paris to Amsterdam and Brussels and the trains from Gare d’Nord and Germany were departing as usual. Because there is not border between France, Germany, Belgium and The Netherlands. There is Freedom of Movement; people buy a ticket, walk onto the platform and get on the train. But to get to London - a journey of 2 hours and 20 minutes I had to stand in a queue for three hours. So someone could look at my passport. Ridiculous.
Good. Crossing a border has risks and needs to be taken seriously. If the software has a glitch, unlucky, but you're getting checked regardless. Chin up, man up, shut up
The ten-year jubilee for Brexit is less than two years away. Just enough time to see the first results of the loss of Euro clearing next year. The question will be if nearly 2 years are enough to find any real benefits of Brexit..
I am one person living in the EU who no longer buys products online from the UK because of import taxes I have to pay, often already calculated in the prices online, thus making them much more expensive. But multiply one by millions of others no longer buying, plus companies in the EU looking elsewhere (away from the UK hassle) and there's bound to be an impact.
I love how the Brexit voters were swindled into voting by being told "If we leave the EU, there will be less bureaucratic red tape!", only to be met with EVEN MORE red tape.
The Scots would have benefited immensely from the flow of skilled talent, as well as investment and SMEs flowing across the border with a new, full-fledged EU Scotland. Instead, Scotland voted to remain shackled to an overcrowded, overpopulated England flailing at an imaginary EU villain while failing to recognize its own self-generated perils.
Sounds like a really nice business you had Rob I agree about the prices I have noticed for some time the prices of food are really high I shop on line it suits me but apart from prices different things are not even available sometimes for weeks Brexit has not worked and I don’t think it will as for Starmer he has made a bad start and he shows no sign of getting any better thanks Rob take care
I had a chat with a brexiteer a couple of months after the referendum. He was of course telling me how much better Britain would be of, while I told him that trade with the EU would drop, and Britain would have real problems. He argued that Britain would just trade on WTO rules, and that the tolls would work both ways. My answer to that was that it wouldn't be the tolls that would kill the UK industry, it would be the paperwork. And look what happened...
When history looks back this will be seen as a generational problem with poverty, inflation, degradation of government services and a very likely brain drain, leaving the UK as a poor backwater. How many people will end up unemployed, drinking and fighting in the streets, living from hand to mouth? Millions. It's going to be a rough couple of decades.
@@igzer1 Norway is EFTA member, there are four EFTA members... There are 27 EU member states = 30 countries are EEA member states, Switzerland only partly...
The UK Brexiteers are unfortunately for the population totally delussional about one thing in specific: the UK has not ONE SINGLE thing or product, that EU needs or wants, while UK actually need alot from EU.
As an EU citizen who speaks 6 languages and reads media from 4 continents on a daily basis... the only place I hear this whinging about the biometric system and ETAIS is from Britain... and it was the British who promoted it within the EU in the first place! 😂
@@Richard1A2B solo pensaba que al hablar 6 lenguas deberías hablar español entre las 6 ya que el español es uno de los idiomas más importantes a nivel mundial te felicito por tus habilidades en cuestión de aprender idiomas 👍👍👍👍👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
As a German, I am always surprised why my country is used as a yardstick for things. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that we view our country very critically and national pride is not cultivated here.
That isn't happening--certainly not enough to justify Brexit. Sensible countries trade most economically with countries closest to them. Long distance trading incurs extra expense. Britain took this step at the same time globalized trading is ending with regional capital centers or powerful unions forming, such as BRICS and the EU.
Don't worry Rob, everyone knew what they voted for, especially the people of Kent where I used to live. You never know, the government might publish the Impact Assessment into Brexit which the Tories forgot to release, I somehow think if I hold my breath waiting, I might suffocate as every party seems to be in total denial.
The Germans have a word for it: schadenfreude. A polite way to say to the Brexiteers: "We told you so; you made your bed, now you have to lie in it, for keeps.
Starmers growth plan includes the anual reduction of UK trade. More buisinesses that formerly traded with EU customers' are closing than new businesses opening. This will reduce the UK economy annually, so just keeping up with this will make growing even more distant.
Sitting in my apartment in the Netherlands laughing my socks off at this. Certainly won't be setting foot back in the UK any time soon, when I can take a 40 minute drive to go shopping in Germany. How dumb and stubborn can people be!
Well done Rob, for continually highlighting the disastrous fall out of the Brexshit debacle. It is important to remind the UK population that johnson's 'oven ready' deal was nothing of the sort and more like a 'slow cooker' deal that suffers from never ending power outages!!
Brexit! A total tragedy for Britain. Brits, get your act together and beg to get back into the EU. It is your only hope. You are not an economic power any longer. You need healthy friends to help you thrive. Get with it. Get back into the EU. Don't destroy your country's economy because of a few bad apples in your barrel. Dump the bad apples and get back to what is right for all.
Brexit was always medieval "little England" thinking. The Scots are wrong to have blown their chance to escape the clutches of the U.K. under Cameron. They could have made the transition, ditched the pound and would simply have been allowed the legal fiction by the EU that Scotland never left. Especially the SMEs would have flocked to Scotland. Because of existing deep trade relations the EU already has, Scotland would automatically benefit. As to the loss of the GBP, sterling has been overvalued for at least 50 years, propped up artificially with GDP related to the paper pushing financial services that produce nothing, but more and more paper and illusory wealth. In terms of real gross production product, over financialized and long-deindustrialized Britain has been lagging for a good 40 years. Brexit only aggravated the situation. And most major enterprise in Britain is foreign owned, bleeding profits from the U.K.
Are we allowed to say "I told you so" yet?
Yes! 😋
But they still won't listen.
@@capt.bart.roberts4975 They have not the brain to understand that all.
They'll call you a remainer, and its not the Brexit they voted for as there were obviously 38 million different Brexits to choose from.
Keep saying it!
never,ever forget what the ultra rich tories have done to the country..................
*Not just ultra-rich Tories, but 'Daily Mail' reading morons up in The Red Wall etc, too!* 😠😡🤬
Most leave voters don't care, they will never take the blame for what they have done.
And the eejits who didn't do their research.
Labour are continuing ...
@@abbersj2935 most remain voters won't care either, they turn a blind eye to the corruption.
I work in freight forwarding, mainly for the european market. I've seen that a good few smaller companies have stopped exporting due to the cost, there is no doubt that Brexit has reduced trade, even imports have reduced. The knock on effect is greater than people realise and it has a direct effect on the economy.
I remember hearing that the UK part loaded a lot, by which I mean a container was likely to have up to 6 different items from 6 different suppliers. The paperwork was always going to be huge as a result. The consequences of one incorrect document on 6 exporters was going to be more impactful that for global importers in the EU as they were likely to have 1:1 container and importer. That issue would mean foreign drivers dropping off something into the UK would have greater difficulties and delays taking return loads. So they would not want to come. As a result, along with the natural shortage of UK drivers doing this hard job, would be a sudden increase in the shortage of drivers.
This is so simple to understand. Yet.... people refused to accept it.
Brexit. The turd that just won't flush. No matter how much Brexiteers keep yanking the chain!
Brotip: when you fall into the toilet, don't try pulling yourself out by the chain.
Age old joke, but it would seem brexiteers arw trying exactly that.
😂😂
I’m a Norwegian who was studying in the UK right before Brexit happened. Whenever I would hear British people looking to Norway as an ideal example of what a future outside of the EU would look like I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. Norway has to follow all the regulations set by the EU without having any say in the decision making. We also don’t get many of the benefits…at the time I was paying significantly more to attend uni than my EU-country peers. Why anyone would vote leave is beyond me…
... it is because the British are rather racist and believe in their own superiority. They voted for brexit thinking they would get to keep all of the benefits of EU membership and then some.
Then why did Norway agree do it then ?
maybe because they were happy with their EEA membership…
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@@johnwilkes7624 The reasons why Norway went the EEA route are complex and rooted in history. Basically, the Norwegian economy is dominated by 2 things: oil and gas, and fish. Those two things matter a lot to Norway. Beyond that, Norway, being a relatively small country in terms of population, was happy to outsource its rule-making to the EU via the EEA because it figured that if the banking and insurance rules, for example, were good enough for the EU they were OK for Norway too.
I am Dutch and would like to know from a brexeteer one benefit after Brexit, just one.
The classic answer will probably be: "suvernty innit!" But when you follow up with the question 'and how do you personally benefit from this sovereignty?' ... *crickets*
The onlyy advantage is we now know who the idiots are and how many there were.
You will be waiting a very long time
You wrote Brexitier wrong my friend... 😂😂 Comes from Tiere German word "animal" 😂😂
@@maartenaalsmeer Sovereignty, the power to make and implement decisions, is strongly linked to financial status. Brexit is costing the British treasury £40 billion a year, or in other words: £40 billion less sovereignty.
For those questioning that connection between sovereignty and finance , I have the following question: how did things go with the Truss mini-budget?
Great to hearing you telling it as it is and please please please don’t stop doing it
I’ll never understand why a country would place sanctions upon itself. That’s exactly what Brexit was.
Or believe everybody botos johnson says still voters get there karma a the rest of us suffer
Always remember who was behind the post Brexit agreements: Boris Johnson ... he should be held accountable for the consequences.
He should be behind bars
And punished
Theresa May brought a deal to parliament 3 times, which was rejected 3 times, including by Labour MPs. She resigned over that, and her deal contained a Customs Union with the EU! The English people then elected Boris Johnson and his "Oven Ready" deal...it was at a time when ALL British newspapers comments sections were rife with British superiority and scathing comments about the EU and us EUropeans.... this was very much an English project lead by nutjob politicians and vociferously supported by the English public (with the support of NI Unionists).
Not just Johnson. All others as well!
Hey, Bubba, what about the sleazeball Jeremy Corbyn, TOO!
He was FOR BREXIT, although he was too much of a COWARD AND WEASEL to commit his entire party to it, cuz he liked his privileges as Fearless Leader.
The Brexit nightmare keeps recurring with new bad news! Thanks Rob for keeping us updated! Brexit = 5% reduction in GDP
The most disappointing part of all this is Starmer’s stubborn stance (I like alliterations too 😊). The EU will not tolerate cherry picking!
Starmer has been absolutely dire on this, wonder if he's just another puppet doing the "men in grey suits" bidding, he's the biggest let down ever, the rest did what we expected.
@@mickyg6981he is actually right. EU will not tolerate cherrypicking. Te rest of the British, brexiteers or not, seems to live i la la land. Is there no schools in England. This things are tough in civics classes.
I read a statement issued in an article from a EU member citizen stating that many are lately glad that the UK isn’t part of the EU coz they were difficult to work with in the first place and many people living under the EU have noticed how quickly things are getting done faster without the UK’s arrogant attitude.
@@Wmuthoni totally agree, we were arrogant, pompous and thought we were better, we would have to be better.
@@Wmuthoni Yes, the EU has moved on and I find talk about rejoining to be extremely unrealistic. They simply don't want us - too much trouble.
Will keep fond memories of a trip to the UK BEFORE 2016 in my heart and my studies in London and the student exchanges and visiting friends there and taking my children to London... . NO MORE, NO MORE. Love from the continent.
Some, perhaps many, of us will miss you. At least those of us who thought of ourselves as fellow Europeans. Warm regards from a once half-decent country.
@@davidmcculloch8490well said
Greetings from Spain EU
@@davidmcculloch8490 Seconded.
Why bother? Europe is a much bigger place. You' ve already visited just like me. They don't want us? Who cares? There are so many other places in the EU (and even outside) we can still visit with no problems at all. Enjoy them.
*Terrific journalism Rob. I'm a 68 year old OAP living on Hastings Seafront, looking out of my front window at the English Channel ( **_wishing I was on the other side of it!_** ) and feeling pretty cheesed-off... until I watched this. But now I'm right cheered-up. Someone telling the truth is always cheering, perhaps because it so rarely happens these days, especially when it comes to Brexit. I shall share. **_CHEERS!_* 👍😎☕🥃🥖🧀
We left the UK in 2006 .I am 81 living on a mountain in Tuscany and enjoying every day of my life, highly recommend it .
Yes got to feel for Rob. As a boy who grew up on a Council Estate all my friends lost their businesses supplying English speaking actors to foreign theatres. Believe you me David you see a white van man driving down the motorway I guarantee you its full of English speaking actors for foreign theatre now being supplied on the cheap.
I've got the same feeling I had when James O'Brien said his job was harder than manual labour.
@@stewie7338 Hi stewie, please don’t stereotype people who grew up on council estates, as a small business owner who has been affected by Brexit, I find your comment a tad offensive.
Pensioner living in Hastings,I feel very sorry for you if you didn't vote for brexit.81 year old living in Tuscany.
It'll only effect English racists, though, right?
Well, brexit IS yesterday's news.
The consequences of brexit however will remain a headline topic for decades to come.
All of this is because the Brexiters wanted corruption, tax evasion and others wanted racism, nationalism and English so called pride in a way they did not want to be an equal partner with the Europeans but back to the dead empire. They wanted lawless UK, no regulations, no taxes. More like a jungle. We will never get over it. Thank you very much for this brilliant video Rob and have a nice weekend.
I’m terribly sorry to say that you’re quite right. I debated one such Brexit proponent and he actually did argue that the post-Brexit Britain will fabulously profit from what he described as “leveraging _loopholes_ in (international) law and trading rules”. And when I asked him if he thought it was a good idea to rely on “loopholes” for the future of your country, he called me naïve… The irony.
Quite right. Brexit was based on a fantasy that the UK would become some kind of libertarian, deregulated utopia where the already wealthy could make even more money without troubling themselves with such inconveniences as workers' rights and environmental and consumer protections. It had nothing to do with the national interest.
@@vencik_krpo He called you naive because he only cares about his pockets rather than the wellbeing the country. He is not a patriot and it is the same greedy Brexiters who accuse remainers of being traitors. They twist the truth because they are evil. Idiotic Leave voters never understood the motives of these selfish greedy people. They just followed them blindly because they told them we will get rid of EU immigrants they then replaced them with tripled numbers from India, Nigeria, philippines etc and deprived them of freedom of movement rights in the EU. The UK has become more like Russia that promotes greedy oligarchs' with no future.
@@vencik_krpo I keep saying someone needs to write the book of all the individual reasons why people voted for brexit and defended it..
@@lloydbelle3406 Well, I could offer you another such dissonant idea: once, a Brexiteer told me that Britain had to leave the EU in order to become truly democratic ("Brussels bureaucrats" and all that) and that people of each member of the union had the right to decide whether they want to stay or leave. And so I asked him, being such a democrat, if he was in favour of Scottish independence referendum then. His reply: yes... but not _now_ , you see, *this* is not the right time... I said: yup, right, the "right time" is whenever you're quite sure of the result, right? ;-)
Rather than saying "Brexit hasn't even happened yet" they should be saying "Brexit hasn't even begun to really bite yet". Euro based financial transactions migration?
Yep, businesses that need to trade in Europe are simply going to move to the Netherlands or somewhere. Our loss.
Great, the Euro is coming back home to where it belongs in the Sweet Mighty EU. )))
As a EUropean I would have it no other way.
@@mfredholm the final deadline for Euro clearances EU Banking and all EU financial services is due to be completed on June 30/2025 because now almost complete as more and more are already brought back to the EU and Euro clearances into Euro zone and spread among them Especially the Netherlands stock market the birth place of the stock exchange in 1602 for market drivites then France ,Germany,Italy ,Spain, Ireland and Portugal for Banking and financial services for traders and EU citizens Banking this transactions earned for Brits and the city of London generated close to 3 trillion Euros per annum and the UK earned by taxax close to 1 trillion Euros per annum and let us not forget the UK only had this privilege because its membership of the EU and when the Euro zone governments and the charge let by France and took the UK to ECJ(European court of Justice) to remove the Euro clearances from the UK as none member of the Euro zone but the ECJ sided with UK and rendered their verdict in 2014 saying the UK has the right as any EU member nation to manage any of the EU financial aspects including the Euro clearances the irony is after 2 years of that favourable verdict for the UK decided to leave the EU all together and now have no legal rights whatsoever to manage any EU finances including the Euro clearances and now all that is coming back to the EU and all the wishes and deep held desire of all of the EU countries and Euro zone coming true without taking the UK to the ECJ and the UK itself did the heavy lifting for the by leaving the our union on their own free will and the UK is no longer of the ECJ problem period.greetings from A very proud Dutchie and EU citizen.
@@mfredholm As a Brit living in Romania, I'm glad for an independent currency because it's the fastest growing economy in EU.
@@EllieD.Violet And to think that when some EU countries , like France, protested that a non eurozone country seemed to have a monopoly in euro based financial transactions the ECJ ruled that a prohibition would be discriminatory against an EU member country. Now that caveat no longer exists and slowly but surely, as the EuroNext transactional platforms are enhanced and new ones come on line the City will be bled white, at least as far as euro transactions are concerned
The Brits should worry less about the Germans and worry more about the UK; becasue the Germans have an enormously big saving bank book!!
dont tell them, brexit uk is a well entertaining replacement of monty python!
Germany or France are NOT the EU.
@@pvisit Are you sure that they both know they aren't in the EU ?
@pvisi😂😂😂😂😂😂😂t
@@pvisitlo más idiota que he leído desde hace años Francia y Alemania no están en la unión europea jjjjjjhahahaha
Bad news Brexit stories: as far as the UK is concerned, is there any other kind?
Brexit isn't ALL bad. Well, it probably IS for UK people in the UK. But I live in France, and post Brexit cooperation between the UK and EU is much worse, or even non-existent. I.E. money in a UK bank account is well nigh inaccessible to various French government authorities.
Three cheers for Brexit !! That's a strictly PERSONAL, SELFISH point of view. But yes, I know. Brexit is pretty 💩💩☠️ otherwise.......
No.
Course not. If you googled the effects of brexit, befire the vote, you wpukd have read all about all that has happened, from all economists and experts. But racist hate is more attractive to half this shithole country
Yes , the E.U. can't disperse the millions upon millions of illegals to the U.K. What are coming across the channel is a trickle . The far right will soon take over in the E.U. Sovereignty is a wonderful thing . Even my Hungarian neighbours who have just returned from a trip to Hungary are glad to be back home in Britain .
"We won! Get over it." I can think of so many responses.
Sadly shaking my head.
This country needs to see what damage Brexit has done
An full inquiry which reveals the Brexit impact statement would be a good start; but where's the incentive for that when the Labour leader says "Make Brexit Work"?!
Thanks, Rob, for keeping us informed.
A friend of mine own and runs a confectionery manufacturing business in the Republic of Ireland. Due to the close relationship between the UK and Ireland, he used to source all his spare parts from the UK, as much of the equipment originated there. However, he is now reconsidering this approach because the cost of a spare part he used to pay £9 for has recently surged to £89, likely due to tariffs and other factors.
He is shifting his equipment purchases toward suppliers within the EU. This shift is likely to have a negative impact on mid-sized businesses in the UK, as many manufacturers in the Republic of Ireland are facing similar challenges.
@cormackeenan
A lot of Irish companies and businesses are discovering that supplies, machinery and components previously sourced from Britain are also available from other suppliers in the EU.
Generally speaking, the EU-sourced items are cheaper, and often of higher quality.
POST-Brixit, it is now much easier to source from EU suppliers. Far less paperwork, far less expense, far less hassle overall.....
@@gloin10
Something a lot of rejoiners seem to forget, even if they could reverse Brexit with a magic wand, those changed suppliers would still be better than the old UK ones.
The old UK suppliers might even have gone out of buissness.
The buissness once lost most likely will never return.
Noone can afford to wait with their production for the UK to come back some day.
@@Ooze-cl5tx That is true. Changing a supply chain is not something you want to do every other year. Once it is up and running with a trustworthy supplier there has to be some really significant benefits to go back to a former one.
That Davis Davis Brexit picture will never get old. Same for that Dutch Border checkpoint clip. You can't beat those
"Welcome to the Brexit, sir!" is wonderful.
As always, a good and informative video. Well done Rob, please keep it up!
Apart from most of what he just said are outright lies!
I think we all have to live with the thought that economically nothing is going to get better for us outside the EU.
That means that things are going to stay bad for many, many MANY years to come.
No EU membership - no recovering trade, no recovering trade - no recovering economy. How hard is that to understand?
And what makes you think the eventual passage of years is going to allow things to improve? The section of the public and politicians who supported this disaster that since passing of the Empire, Queen Victoria, Francis Drake, and a history of power and plunder the world has changed and our reluctance (sovereignty) to change has imposed on the UK the biggest disaster since the last war. Brexit removed the Great out of Great Britain and reduced it to an island without any influence stuck between the USA and Europe. Stupidity beyond belief.
Another deluded Rejoiner. Read the Draghi Report about the future of the EU.??
And listen to what Macron said. The EU and Economic Growth are two completely unrelated concepts. ! About as relevant as the Austro Hungarian Empire...
Brexit is like syphilis. 2016 we had the minor primary stage, then in remission until 2021 with the secondary. We now wait for the tertiary, which will rot us from the inside out.
I think that wait is long over
Racism is expensive. Hate costs money.
Brexit. The mistake that keeps punishing.
Don't worry. Rees-Mogg said you would start seeing the Brexit benefits in fifty years. That was a few years ago, already, so you're that much closer!
I don’t remember seeing that on the side of a bus in 2016.
He said fish are happier
Only 42 years left !
Lord Snooty said food prices would come down 20% if we left ! All imports have gone up because the Pound has dropped in value by 20% when we left! Sadly the moronic electorate believed Boris and company!
The English still talking as if they have a choice. You're not getting back in. Starmer is definitely right about that. Who would ever trust a deal with a nation that breaks every treaty it has ever signed? Sometimes before they even signed it? Please...
So glad they are out. I don't want them back and there's millions of decent Europeans who don't want the English liars and treaty breakers back either.
Not to mention that we can't risk Labour rejoining only for the Tories to restart the whole nightmarish process of leaving once again in five years. Starmer is right, the Union will not even consider the UK rejoining as long as there is no broad consensus in the UK, and that will take many years...
Exactly, I keep telling them, the UK will not be let back in because Europe will not risk Brexit 2.0. The UK political system is too volatile! This Brexit nightmare is self-inflicted and is forever! Enjoy your solitary confinement, I feel sorry for the remainers but ce la vie [such is life] 🤣🤣
@@PMoon-r5s Any negotiation would start with demands the UK will never concede to. Gibraltar? Spanish again. And that's just for starters. All the goodwill is gone. They're no longer at the table. Now they are on it.
We can't live in the past, we have to move forward and the more Euriopean countries there are in the EU the stronger it is.
They are in denial because they don't want to be held accountable especially to themselves.
You mentioned the stupidity of those who voted for Brexit - racism and ignorance were also a significant factor.
Stupidity and racism are two words that go together well 😉
Don't leave out pooptin's bots stoking the fire. 😱
Yeah Nobody in Europe has voted for racist ,
any immigrant parties..? er.....hang on..!
What a deluded clown.!
Googling "What is the EU?" after Brexit passed.
Indeed, there is a white. older tint to the Brexit voters.
I sincerely hope that the French are right when they said , expect a 15hr delay at sea ports after November and I sincerely hope its only a 15hr delay on a good with moderate traffic. May I also say that I sincerely hope that these kind of delays will be exactly the same at all airports for any holidaymakers travelling to the EU. This would give me immense satisfaction knowing that all holidays to destinations in the EU are absolutely ruined on the way out and on the way back. I think that all brexiteers will wish they had never heard of brexit or Nigel Farage. Expressing my hatred of brexit helps me cope with it. Thank you, Bob, for a great video .
Thanks for your meticulous research and dedication. Thanks for educating me. 🇺🇸
I would love to visit my family in England,but I think I'll wait and stay here in my chosen country.
Sadly, even after eight years since Brexit, the worst of Brexit - ruin and decay - is yet to come and poor Britons have not yet really begun to suffer. Churchill once promised the British people “blood, sweat and tears” to win the Second World War; but this time with Brexit it will not be to win a war, but to lose forever their primacy among the great nations of the world. How on earth could Britons commit this kind of suicide as a country and commit such a brutal crime against themselves?
As an aside, Stalin built his empire by WWII, while the British empire crumbled. The British 'win' is nowt but spin. Churchill understood: 'To prevent another war in Europe, we will need something like the United States of Europe'. (1946). And the Remain campaign didn't use that quote. Unforgivable.
@@Leberteich it is the british tragedy. churchill was the one to bring uk through the war. but was not reelected.
Stiff upper lip.
As a french, it makes me very sade to see UK like that, what ever, english will be always welcome in France.
I disagree with Truss' brexit blunder being failing to exclude shipbuilding. Utter nonsense. That wasn't on the cards. Thinking it was is typical British thinking. Not brexit thinking, but British. The oozing superiority and how special they are. No. No having a cake and eat it, no cherries on top, no special bespoke deals. We don't want any of that with the UK. The UK in our union was terrible enough already. One big comprehensive deal is bad enough already because the UK doesn't want to keep itself to a deal. Imagine if we had a thousand deals on the side. The UK then would not adhere to a single one of them unless adherence would demand inaction.
Thank you.
Rob, you really should have included JRM adamantly and endlessly repeating the pre-Brexit lie that “the delays will not be at Dover, they will be at Calais”. He never said that sentence without repeating at least twice, as if constant repetition would somehow make it true.
Unsplendid Isolation
In 2016, I was the only person in a factory of 450 people in the north of England who dealt with export regulations, issues, changes, etc. and without even knowing the deal that would be agreed, I told anyone who asked or who would listen (most wouldn't) that brexit would be bad for the UK. The other person in my office who said the same thing when asked was the 1 person in the factory who dealt with non EU imports. The factory got closed down in 2018, the work, ironically moved to the EU, and as far as I know is no longer a production site, but a storage facility.
Given my experience of export problem solving I could probably have earnt good money providing export solutions to small companies, I chose not to. Because I knew I would hate having to work with idiots who voted for something with no understanding of what they were doing, would hate living with the issues I was certain brexit would cause, and hate the intolerance I saw within a week of the referendum result, so instead of using the export experience I had, I decided to take my redundancy money, grab my pensions and leave the UK, take early retirement and move to SE Asia.
I followed UK news for about 2 years, but quite frankly it was so depressing I stopped. When vids like this pop into my YT list I watch them, but I can't usually muster the enthusiasm to comment. The problems of today and the future is the fallout from a bad decision that was taken due to the lies, half truths, misinformation and utter ignorance of politicians, business leaders, media, and people alike. 8 years on and far too many of those same people are adding denial to the list mentioned. It was all so utterly pointless and could have been avoided had people stopped thinking we were the best thing since sliced bread, and accepted that the reason we didn't have an empire is because we took it in the first place, and leaving the EU wouldn't make it reappear.
Great reporting 🙏❤️ thanks so much.
On a daily basis I try to find polite ways to discuss the effects of Brexit on my business & prices with my patients (mainly elderly) who voted for it, but can’t see the connection, it’s desperately sad.
Another excellent analysis. 👍👍👍👍👍
Ciao I'm italian,
unfortunately people don't learn from other people's mistakes or from history. Sovereignist and anti-european voices are being raised all over Europe.
As a "small citizen" i think this is a very serious mistake.
We, as europe (including uk), are the pinnacle of the world, socially, culturally, ethically and morally.
If only we were more united, together with uk, we would be very strong and we would leave only crumbs to everyone else.
I'll give you a stupid example: have you ever thought about how many medals europe won overall, including uk, at the last olympics?
China 91
Usa 126
EU + UK 277!
There's nothing left for anyone!
ANYONE!
Think about what we could do economically, militarily and socially if we were less selfish.
That's why everyone wants us divided! We miss you!
Claudio
And the rich britons...leaving the Uk
What are you still talking about ? It is done, as an EU citizen for us this is a done story… we don’t talk about this anymore, we think this was finally a good thing. UK was never a full member asking always for exceptions
I can understand your anger but it is what it is. Even if the UK was to re-apply for EU membership I doubt whether it would even be considered by the EU. If and it's a huge if, the UK was reinstated, the terms of membership would exclude all of the favourable conditions negotiated before the initial membership. Take your axe, grind it and hunt for the traitors that lied to the public, made promises that could never be fulfilled and lined their own pockets at the same time. Expose the corruption and those really behind Brexit.
I think the eu wouldn't have many issues with the uk comming back. Getting all 27 countries to agree will be the major issue. This could take decades, if ever.
Always beware if billionaires and politicians appeal to your emotions. It means they have no better arguments.
The people of Kent have asked me to remind drivers who find themselves sitting in queues for 15 hours, keep your engine running at all times and use the bushes at the roadside if you need to go to the toilet (you know, celebrate your new hard won Brexit freedoms).
Those from Reform UK who still support Farage and Trump make me laugh🤣🤣🤣 there is no limit to ignorance
I totally agree. It's amazing how many Brexiteers still visit channels like this and try to argue that Brexit was great and going fine. Talk about wilful ignorance.
Farage is nothing, but a motor mouth shill for the super-rich who are lately obtaining citizenship in EU countries by investment, leaving the U.K. impoverished.
Sorry,
Meanwhile, in the EU "is that really happening? Ah! I see... Tragic... Well, moving on to more important news....".
No need to show something on the news about Brexit in the UK. There is no interest in the EU. There are other problems to solve.
Yes, I understand the Aston Uni report uses the _value_ of trade goods whereas BRexiters tend to use volume or inflation unadjusted values and/or services exports (whichever suits their current excuses). The fact remains that the UK, a "trade intensive" country (as it has virtually no natural resources to exploit) needs _high-value_ exports to earn a decent crust as the majority of high-value importers are right on our doorstep! But facts like these ("Asia is growing faster" - whilst not importing high-value British cars or machine tools) escapes BRexiters entirely.
Oh well. Everything going as expected.
I travel a lot between London and Paris using Eurostar. On a recent trip, there was a software glitch with the automatic gates at the border in Paris which meant that each passport had to be visually checked. Even those with an EU passport - as I have. This caused a delay - for me - of over three hours. Meanwhile the Eurostar from Paris to Amsterdam and Brussels and the trains from Gare d’Nord and Germany were departing as usual. Because there is not border between France, Germany, Belgium and The Netherlands. There is Freedom of Movement; people buy a ticket, walk onto the platform and get on the train. But to get to London - a journey of 2 hours and 20 minutes I had to stand in a queue for three hours. So someone could look at my passport. Ridiculous.
Good. Crossing a border has risks and needs to be taken seriously.
If the software has a glitch, unlucky, but you're getting checked regardless. Chin up, man up, shut up
The ten-year jubilee for Brexit is less than two years away. Just enough time to see the first results of the loss of Euro clearing next year.
The question will be if nearly 2 years are enough to find any real benefits of Brexit..
There is nothing to fix - Brexit is working exactly as intended and predicted 😊
I am one person living in the EU who no longer buys products online from the UK because of import taxes I have to pay, often already calculated in the prices online, thus making them much more expensive. But multiply one by millions of others no longer buying, plus companies in the EU looking elsewhere (away from the UK hassle) and there's bound to be an impact.
I don't mind being boring Rob - well done with your work
As regular EU travellers we avoid Dover like the plague.
Thank you for video!, greeting from continent 🙌🏻
What did Farage get for his trouble? Does anyone know?
Probably a seat in Parliament, paid for by his City handlers.
well done britain. you never disappoint!
Racing to the bottom yet again.
Sheer madness! 😮😢
They don't want you to talk about it, BUT they can't stop complaining that the EU is mistreating them by treating them as non-EU members 😂😂
Wow. David Davis, he was good at smiling, wasn't he ? I am surprised he did not put a flag on the desk with 'Hello Mum' written across it.
Fire is hot and water is wet.
I love how the Brexit voters were swindled into voting by being told "If we leave the EU, there will be less bureaucratic red tape!", only to be met with EVEN MORE red tape.
And Scotland voted to remain
Better Together my arse
The Scots would have benefited immensely from the flow of skilled talent, as well as investment and SMEs flowing across the border with a new, full-fledged EU Scotland. Instead, Scotland voted to remain shackled to an overcrowded, overpopulated England flailing at an imaginary EU villain while failing to recognize its own self-generated perils.
Sounds like a really nice business you had Rob I agree about the prices I have noticed for some time the prices of food are really high I shop on line it suits me but apart from prices different things are not even available sometimes for weeks Brexit has not worked and I don’t think it will as for Starmer he has made a bad start and he shows no sign of getting any better thanks Rob take care
Actions have consequences. Is that a surprice ?
Thanks Rob, an interesting video.
I had a chat with a brexiteer a couple of months after the referendum. He was of course telling me how much better Britain would be of, while I told him that trade with the EU would drop, and Britain would have real problems. He argued that Britain would just trade on WTO rules, and that the tolls would work both ways. My answer to that was that it wouldn't be the tolls that would kill the UK industry, it would be the paperwork. And look what happened...
Sounds like you found one of the few more intelligent brexiters. Most have difficulty telling you their own name.
As living in a EU-country who is the one or many to take on the responsibility for Brexit? Is there any at all or what?
Reese-Moggs and Nigel Farage come immediately to mind as shills for the Brexit crowds.
Just ensure the shipbuilder is not the one that made the latest carrier, they may never make it out of the shipyard
When history looks back this will be seen as a generational problem with poverty, inflation, degradation of government services and a very likely brain drain, leaving the UK as a poor backwater. How many people will end up unemployed, drinking and fighting in the streets, living from hand to mouth? Millions. It's going to be a rough couple of decades.
Norway will never enable the U.K. to join the EEA
Of course, UK is way too big and would immediately create trouble.
But Norway would enable an independent Scotland to join.
@@abbofun9022so so correct
@@igzer1
Norway is EFTA member, there are four EFTA members...
There are 27 EU member states = 30 countries are EEA member states, Switzerland only partly...
Norway will never EVER allow the U.K. to become a EFTA member
End of
The UK Brexiteers are unfortunately for the population totally delussional about one thing in specific: the UK has not ONE SINGLE thing or product, that EU needs or wants, while UK actually need alot from EU.
Chester cheese? 😂
As an EU citizen who speaks 6 languages and reads media from 4 continents on a daily basis... the only place I hear this whinging about the biometric system and ETAIS is from Britain... and it was the British who promoted it within the EU in the first place! 😂
Hablas español?
@@ManuelRomeroArcos-vx4qh yo hablo español sí
@@Richard1A2Bmuy bien, I think it,s fantastic.
@@Richard1A2B I speak and wrote in Spanish and English.
@@Richard1A2B solo pensaba que al hablar 6 lenguas deberías hablar español entre las 6 ya que el español es uno de los idiomas más importantes a nivel mundial te felicito por tus habilidades en cuestión de aprender idiomas 👍👍👍👍👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
As a German, I am always surprised why my country is used as a yardstick for things. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that we view our country very critically and national pride is not cultivated here.
Amazing. A true FAFO story and the Brexiters aren't even aware of it
You would sure be welcome back. We would be better off together.
Millions of Brittons wanted this - knowing it wasn’t for Free…. You were warned if you paid attention.
That will end tourism to the UK.
Trade is down 30% but wasn't that the plan? That drop was supposed to be replaced by increased trade around the world!
That isn't happening--certainly not enough to justify Brexit. Sensible countries trade most economically with countries closest to them. Long distance trading incurs extra expense. Britain took this step at the same time globalized trading is ending with regional capital centers or powerful unions forming, such as BRICS and the EU.
Don't worry Rob, everyone knew what they voted for, especially the people of Kent where I used to live.
You never know, the government might publish the Impact Assessment into Brexit which the Tories forgot to release, I somehow think if I hold my breath waiting, I might suffocate as every party seems to be in total denial.
Whait! Does this mean that all the experts where actually right? Dammit.
Idiocy has its price. And it is not a one shot.
Brexit is all the way on page 12 in EU newspapers, and only that because the topic is usually something like "UK panicking over Brexit fallout".
for all the countries all around the world Britain once colonized,
this is marvelous!!..
The Germans have a word for it: schadenfreude. A polite way to say to the Brexiteers: "We told you so; you made your bed, now you have to lie in it, for keeps.
Starmers growth plan includes the anual reduction of UK trade. More buisinesses that formerly traded with EU customers' are closing than new businesses opening. This will reduce the UK economy annually, so just keeping up with this will make growing even more distant.
Sitting in my apartment in the Netherlands laughing my socks off at this. Certainly won't be setting foot back in the UK any time soon, when I can take a 40 minute drive to go shopping in Germany. How dumb and stubborn can people be!
Yup, try running a country with one leg off.
Paralympic training required!
Well done Rob, for continually highlighting the disastrous fall out of the Brexshit debacle. It is important to remind the UK population that johnson's 'oven ready' deal was nothing of the sort and more like a 'slow cooker' deal that suffers from never ending power outages!!
Brexit.The gift that keeps on giving :(
Starmer attitude towards Europe is more or less like Tressa May with all those crap red lines. Very disappointing.
As I said before, it will get worse.
You reap what you sow, UK of GB & NI.
Not so United Kingdom. The majority of Scots saw through the nonsensical Brexit supporter lies.
Please keep Scotland out of this
Brexit! A total tragedy for Britain. Brits, get your act together and beg to get back into the EU. It is your only hope. You are not an economic power any longer. You need healthy friends to help you thrive. Get with it. Get back into the EU. Don't destroy your country's economy because of a few bad apples in your barrel. Dump the bad apples and get back to what is right for all.
Very well said, Angela Eagle.
Brexit was always medieval "little England" thinking. The Scots are wrong to have blown their chance to escape the clutches of the U.K. under Cameron. They could have made the transition, ditched the pound and would simply have been allowed the legal fiction by the EU that Scotland never left. Especially the SMEs would have flocked to Scotland. Because of existing deep trade relations the EU already has, Scotland would automatically benefit. As to the loss of the GBP, sterling has been overvalued for at least 50 years, propped up artificially with GDP related to the paper pushing financial services that produce nothing, but more and more paper and illusory wealth. In terms of real gross production product, over financialized and long-deindustrialized Britain has been lagging for a good 40 years. Brexit only aggravated the situation. And most major enterprise in Britain is foreign owned, bleeding profits from the U.K.