What is the height of the average British MP now that Labour has won such a landslide?

@GeniUs I’ll take your points one by one.


Not true: here is a summary from Statista of polling on the topic since 2020.



It was always obvious that erecting barriers between the UK and our largest trading partner would have negative consequences. It is now far more complex and costly to do business with the EU than it was. Just an anecdote that is representative: I live in the EU and used to buy things from the UK regularly. Now I need to pay additional VAT and customs duty so I don’t order from the UK any more. Many small UK businesses are suffering or going out of business because of this. It is well covered in the press.

The issues with travel are real. Before Brexit, passport checks were minimal. Now, passports must be checked for prior visits not exceeding allowed day counts, and stamped. This will get worse when ETIAS comes in. Are you really not aware of this?

As for “paying vast sums to the EU” to accelerate the development of former Warsaw Pact countries - that is a very shortsighted view. By creating economic prosperity, the size and value of the addressable market was increased, as well as increasing living standards across the continent. Win-win! And of course, the hit to UK GDP from Brexit more than makes up for these “vast sums”. Lose-lose!

As for immigration, immigrants from the EU did many needed jobs in the UK, from health and social care to numerous other professions, that are now short staffed. And when the UK was in the EU, it could return cross-channel migrants to France under the Dublin Convention. Now it can’t. And immigration has gone up.

One last point - freedom of movement did not mean uncontrolled migration. The UK always had the power to remove EU migrants who did not work or were not self-sufficient. But it chose not to.

@Adeptlinguist I'd need to know how Statista collect their data before I take any stock in it. Also what you have pictured there doesn't mean anything there is crucial data missing (I tried to get on statista and it wanted money).
If you don't even live in the UK then you aren't experiencing the 'changes' that having large areas of economic migrants and asylum seekers has made though like 'small businesses going out of business' the problems with them are well documented in the press. Try living in Boston for example so much fun they voted for Reform UK. However all this means nothing as the public voted to leave the European Union and unless a second vote is held that is what will happen.

@GeniUs I don’t pay for Statista. If I can get it, you can. The figures are well known anyway.

I lived in the UK recently. I see only positive contributions from migrants.

I can only conclude that you are a racist. Blocked.

@Northerner Brexit didn’t help. The most catastrophic act of national self-harm in living memory.