Only one in 10 feel leaving the EU has helped their finances, while just 9% say it has benefited the NHS, despite £350m a week pledge

Only one in 10 feel leaving the EU has helped their finances, while just 9% say it has benefited the NHS, despite £350m a week pledge according to new poll

A clear majority of the British public now believes Brexit has been bad for the UK economy, has driven up prices in shops, and has hampered government attempts to control immigration, according to a poll by Opinium to mark the third anniversary of the UK leaving the EU single market and customs union.

The survey of more than 2,000 UK voters also finds strikingly low numbers of people who believe that Brexit has benefited them or the country.

Just one in 10 believe leaving the EU has helped their personal financial situation, against 35% who say it has been bad for their finances, while just 9% say it has been good for the NHS, against 47% who say it has had a negative effect.

  • @nogooduserEnglish
    5•1 year ago

    But “the people” didn’t decide on the deal because they were only given two choices and the interpretation of “leave” was down to the Government and Parliament.

    It would have been much better to get experts together to decide what options there were and how each one affected us and for that information to be made available to everyone so that Parliament could have had a complete view of the various options that Government was considering.

    Instead they hid away and came up with a single version of Brexit that got shot down and then they still triggered the leave process anyway.

    They should have taken years to come up with a leave plan before triggering the leave process instead of the mess that happened.

    Edit: and if this process determined that it really was a shit idea then act on that by either having a second referendum or just deciding that it was a bad idea and not doing it.

      • @AceticonEnglish
        2•1 year ago

        Yeah, because reducing an extremelly complex subject to a binary choice for the public, and then having people whose only qualification is being loudmouths figuring out what the option selected by the public actually maps to in the real world and hammering out the details of its implementation, is such a superior way and is working so well…

        • @[email protected]English
          1•1 year ago

          How complex is it really? You don’t think British people are smart enough to understand being a member of the EU vs not being a member? Are British folks too stupid to govern themselves?

          • @AceticonEnglish
            2•1 year ago

            The evidence of its complexity was all around when the exit treaty started being negotiated - kinda hard to miss the trully gigantic mass of details that were there and needed to be agreeded upon merelly to exit, unless you’re a bit of a simpleton.

            Only a fool would think they know everything and can thus decide on everything without the help of domain experts.

            To put it in really really simple way: would you grab a random Briton of the street and have him or her do brain surgery on you? Because your “we don’t need any experts” “logic” implies that anybody would be fine to decide on anything, which includes the detailed choices in brain surgery. Surelly your brain is simpler than a massive international treaty covering just about anything related to the human economic activity of 520 million people and more.

            Even experts need other experts for things outside their domain of expertise

            • @[email protected]English
              1•1 year ago

              You’re complicating it. The choice is to be a member or not.

              Negotiations are are possible outcome to the answer of this question, not a requirement.

              • @AceticonEnglish
                2•1 year ago

                If the choice was that simple, the Tories wouldn’t have spent all that time and effort in negotiating an Exit Agreement and would have simply said “screw you” to EU negotiators and relied on the basic WTO trade agreement: there really was no way the EU could force exit negotiations on Great Britain, which could have left with no Exit Agreement at all since it’s a fully sovereign nation within its on border, but then the UK would have no rights to access EU facilities and the Single Market beyond basic WTO.

                Clearly there was a lot of complexity around the whole “access to EU facilities and the Single Market” (in other words, the stuff beyond the soverignty of the UK) and enough UK self interest related to those, otherwise why would the Tories even bother, much less spend so much time on and talk so much to the Press about the Exit Agreement?!

                Just because you can describe something complex in simple terms (“Brain surgery is just poking around in people’s brains”) doesn’t mean it is actually simple and hence that choices around it are simple: that you think something is simple just from reading a simple description of it can indeed mean that it is simple, but it can also mean that you’re profoundly ignorant about it.

                Judging by how the very politicians that campaigned for Leave ended up desperatelly negotiating the Exit Agreement when they did got what they campaigned for, profound ignorance is by far the most likelly explanation for thinking that the simplistic way in which the Leave choice was formulated for you actually represents the full depth of complexity on that subject.

                Said ignorance was quite understandable before all this happenned, but by now it can only be willful.

                • @[email protected]English
                  1•1 year ago

                  I’m an American so I’ll yield to your opinion as a Brit. I trust in Brits’ ability to understand and make decisions.

                  Really, it’s none of my business