The top-line costs alone expose the raw deal we’ve ended up with. The so-called divorce settlement from the Union tops £30 billion, and the loss in goods exports stands at £27 billion. UK food exports are estimated to have decreased by £2.8 billionannually.
Businesses have also been hit terribly. Up to 56% of dairy producers are struggling to find workers (as per an Arla survey). According to the Marine Management Organisation, seafood exports have dropped by 118,000 tonnes in the UK since 2019.
Over 16,000 companies with European customers have simply stopped exporting to the bloc. There’s also been a dramatic spike in immigration, and although 1.2 million EU nationals have left the UK in the wake of Brexit, net migration has soared by 2.3 million.
In fact, Brexit’s biggest promise was to control immigration – but we’ve ended up here. In total, 3.6 million immigrants have entered Britain since the freedom of movement laws were curtailed. Meanwhile, EU students at UK universities have fallen by a third.
Brexit is a great example of democracy in Britain. You vote for something and it doesn’t happen and everyone promises it will definitely happen in the following election and it never does. If there’s one thing I’m certain of is that reform will not end immigration to this country either.
They voted for Brexit, Brexit happened, and everything unfolded as expected. Seems pretty cut and dry to me.
The end results were obvious going in, we all knew this would happen, and that it would continue to do ongoing damage to the country and it’s people over the next century.
I’m not really sure what else the Leave voters expected, unless they were believing the nonsense propaganda being fed to them by the daily rags and Facebook 🤷♀️
How a person goes so far down the rabbit hole away from reality to believe what’s essentially poorly thought out fascist propaganda, I’ll never know, but it happened to a lot of people.
The vast majority of those people, being adults, are beyond our means of educating and helping - most simply plug their ears and don’t want to listen. There’s nothing we can do for them, sadly.
The best thing we can do now is educate our children in critical thought and with the same wide understanding of the workings of the world culturally, economically, historically, and with a dash of reality thrown in, that we ourselves were taught, and hope that one day after we’re all dead perhaps a new generation will reverse the damage that some of our generation has wrought.
This is what they expected
(I know, people are that naïve)
Post imperialism delusions of grandeur. It takes a long time to fade if ever. Many other countries still have bouts of this after centuries.
Maybe ask yourself if you are partly at fault yourself if you continue believing in the lies that are being fed to you.
Firstly, while immigration is currently a problem in the UK, the much bigger issue is that political parties like Reform use that as a scapegoat to divert your attention from other very real issues. Secondly, Nigel Farage was one of the most vocal proponents of Brexit. He (and other Brexit proponents) should be held accountable for their lies. Instead, he is allowed continue as if nothing has happened, because people are dumb and gullible.