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.
Thanks Russia (not only ofc but part of it)!
You can thank the British people for that vote. No scapegoating. No playing the victim. Only the British people brought that into reality (helped some by their politicians, and foreign adversaries who have completely open and anonymous access to the social discourse)
But it was the British who did it in the end, and fed directly into the enemy’s ideal of a less cohesive western world.
From my (admittedly limited) understanding, some British politicians oversold Brexit, with a few politicians and business leaders knowingly telling outright lies. They certainly deserve a large portion of blame.
I see your point, but I don’t think it’s fair to put all of the blame on British voters when they were deliberately misled by the people who were supposed to be knowledgeable, reliable experts.
Following the win of Leave, the Brits elected to government the very politicians who lied the most and the most shamelessly, including the guy who coined the phrase “We don’t need any experts”.
Even better, part of the reason they got reelected was the shameless campaign by the Neoliberals to overthrow from the Labour Party leadership the first leftwinger they elected leader in decades (the system in that party for approving leadership candidates is as anti-democratic as it gets, but they let the guy through because they thought there was no chance in Hell he would win the election, and then he won). Anyways, right smack during the election campaign you had the likes of the BBC and The Guardian as well as lots of Labour Party politicians from the New Labour faction (the one from Tony Blair, famously described by Margreth Thatcher as “my greatest achievement”) slandering that leftwing Labour party leader as anti-semitic and implying he was a Communist (infamously, the BBC used as background in one of their news programs and picture of him doctored to show him wearing a Soviet cap) all to bring him down and restore the New Labour faction (full on neoliberal rightwingers) to the leadership of the party.
And don’t get me started of how the Remain arguments were so weak because a lot of the Remain politicians had spent the last 2 decades blaming the EU for all manner of bad policies that they themselves were pushing, so many in not most of ways in which the EU was a good thing for Britain they couldn’t just admit to being so because that would shown their previous lies about it.
Most Brits are to blame for Brexit, both the Posh Fascists in the Tory party and the Neoliberals of New Labour and the Liberal Democrat Party, the latter 2 who, even though they were against Leave, both created the conditions that led to so many voting Leave and who, to stop any kind of political move to the Left in the country, pretty much rewarded with power (and all the juicy, juicy money that those in power later get when their “friends” reward them for their “friendliness” whilst it power, which is how Corruption works in Britain) the very Posh Fascists that had campaigned for Leave.
There is a slice of Britons who have no blame whatsoever for Brexit, but those aren’t the ones who support the Tories, LibDems or New Labour.
Thank you for the summary.
In case you forgot, Cambridge Analytica who manipulated Facebook to promote Leave was financed by wealthy Americans.