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.

  • @I_Has_A_Hat
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    5 days ago

    In the US, while the electoral college is a fucking mess, I can at least understand why the founding fathers implemented it. People will say it was to ensure the elites were kept in power; and maybe that’s true to some extent. But the real reason is simple: they knew that the average citizen is a fucking idiot and leaving leadership decisions up to them would be a race to the bottom.

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      I thought it was to ensure the more populated states doesn’t have too much decision making power over the less populated states