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So, fellow Brits: Name one good thing about Brexit (and nebulous things like breaking free from the tyranny of Brussels, etc. do not count)

Burnley123 · 41-45, M
I voted remain and would do so again but there are some benefits.

A) Truck drivers and a few other workers will have wage increases, though obviously prices will go up too.

B) When things go wrong, it'll be harder for governments to shift blame onto the EU.

All the talk about 'Global Britain,' having our own trade deals and soaring without the EU holding us back is based on a pre-WW2 understanding of politics and economics. It's not just imperial nostalgia (though that is a big part) it's an understanding of countries as powerful independent actors irrespective of a global financialised free market economy. We are also a mid-sized fish in a big pond.

Its ironic that Britain is perhaps the most integrated to world markets and the most dependent on foreign trade. Nobody makes anything here anymore and recent gas and food shortages illustrate our lack of capacity to be economically independant. I'm all for us rebuilding a real economic base and moving away from financial services but Brexit is not going to do that.

The laws of Geography dictate that Europe will always be our dominant trading partner. The Americans don't need us anyway and neither does India, which further undermines the myth of salvation through trade deals.

There are lots of issues with the EU and I'm against the single currency. Some of the Brexiteer criticisms of it are correct. But leaving is a decision to slowly become poorer and the fringe benefits don't outweigh that.
helenS · 36-40, F
@Burnley123 Thank you very much for those insightful comments and remarks!
🌷 <== flower for you; actually you would deserve three of them, but I have only one.
Burnley123 · 41-45, M
@helenS lol. Thanks. 👍
Khenpal1 · M
@Burnley123 It sounds OK in a perfect world . Alone issue of drivers make take years , if ever. Looking at the current mess , if ever is more likely 🥳
GLITTER · 36-40, F
wE gut r cunTry bak
NickiHijab · F
@GLITTER cuz ah wun Britain to be abaht Bri'ish cuz dey've gut muslamic Ray guns
SW-User
@GLITTER CLOZE DA BORDAS! 🤨
Gangstress · 41-45, F
@SW-User emigrants gut ought
GovanDUNNY · 36-40, M
We can now reclaim THE EMPIRE AND OUR COLONIES
GovanDUNNY · 36-40, M
@MissTaken Nothing wrong with America I dont even think of it as foreign
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@GovanDUNNY Do you think of anywhere that doesn't speak English as foreign?
GovanDUNNY · 36-40, M
@SW-User not really. when you have relatives in all English speaking countries
helenS · 36-40, F
(a) Britons NEVER NEVER shall be slaves again!

(b) Metric unit despotism is a thing of the past - package labels are in REAL units again, and cubit has finally re-appeared as an acceptable length unit, as it should be.

(c) Unemployed Britons work as truck drivers now - no more competition by those East European cheapos.

(d) The UK has finally overcome the food shortage and gasoline shortage which the people suffered from when they were still slaves of Brussels.
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@helenS Ooh so where are these truck drivers when we so desperately need them? Also, I was pleased to hear Grant Schapps saying we're not going to rely on "foreign" labour to drive our trucks before issuing several thousand temporary visas for "foreign" HGV drivers.

Oh wait, youre being sarcastic 😅
Dlrannie · 31-35, F
That Nigel Farage no longer goes on about it 😂😂
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@Dlrannie Because he's wisely run away :)
helenS · 36-40, F
@SW-User His children have German passports anyway... 😏
I mean come on this guy is not stupid.
Burnley123 · 41-45, M
@SW-User He's still around on GB News and leading the 'reclaim' party. I'm not a fan, just FYI.
kinkymale · 56-60, M
I voted leave and would do so again. We are now (supposedly) a free country now and can trade with anyone we wish to and build a great independent country again. It will be a bumpy ride for a few years but in time our economy will boom. Also with the way the eu are heading i dont think it will benefit us, just my opinion. They want a single economy for all countries in it with single eu army etc. If we had stayed part of that lot then the london stock exchange would have gone to frankfurt and we would have no control over anything. Also every country in the eu has different economies and the dictators of the eu want a single economy but i dont believe a one size fits all works. Whats good for one country will not be good for another. If they stayed with the original idea of a group of countries in an agreement to free trade with each other that would have been fine. What i said now is just my opinion, could be wrong or could be right but it is just my opinion.
kinkymale · 56-60, M
@SW-User hi samphire. from what i have read over the years if we had voted to remain in 2016 then we would have been forced to adopt the single currency and go hook line and sinker into the eu. I honestly believe that once a lot of crap has been sorted we will be great again. Yes it will be a bumpy ride for whatever reasons, but long term we will be fine.
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@kinkymale Well you must have been looking at a lot of "fake news" Leave websites just before the Brexit vote. We would never have been "forced" to adopt the Euro, just as Denmark and Sweden would not have been "forced" either.

And again, I would like to believe that we will be "great" again, but I think it's going to take a long, long time before all this "crap", which was predicted well in advance, has been sorted.
Burnley123 · 41-45, M
@kinkymale There are lots of things wrong in your post but the 'London stock exchange going to Frankfurt' thing is ridiculous.
NickiHijab · F
Anyway, what's for breakfast?
Carissimi · 70-79, F
You think tyranny is nebulous, and doesn’t matter? Mind you, now you are out, UK has become quite tyrannical itself.
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@Khenpal1 They do 😊
Khenpal1 · M
@SW-User I call it diversify ones options.
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@Khenpal1 I call it being born Irish
Khenpal1 · M
You are and will be dependent on food import from EU, but now you will have to pay more 🏖️
Khenpal1 · M
@SW-User By the time winter rolls around, half of all the UK's food is imported
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@Khenpal1 I agree.
Khenpal1 · M
@SW-User I don't see solution on food supply's in winter months , you can't increase number of drivers with 50% for that period. Alone amount of paperwork will choke supply chains. When it comes to fresh food, the most efficient and cheapest way to get produce to the UK is in refrigerated trucks, using the "roll-on roll-off" method of transport.
Really? Five years of this and youre not bored?
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@SirenCalledLuce Well, it's only now that it's truly beginning to hit home what we've done to ourselves, so that's why people are talking about it again. P.S. Den heb tavas a gollas y dyr
@SW-User Suit yourself.
Gumba1000 · M
Self determination
Burnley123 · 41-45, M
@Gumba1000 Vague AF.
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