As January marks five years on from Britain leaving the EU, Alicja Hagopian and Kate Devlin explore its impact

Summary

Five years after Brexit, its promises of sovereignty, economic gains, and reduced migration remain unfulfilled. While Brexit offers regulatory flexibility, its overall impacts are largely negative.

The UK economy has suffered a £100bn annual output loss, with GDP 4% smaller than it would have been without Brexit.

Trade barriers have reduced exports, particularly to the EU, with small businesses and sectors like agriculture and fishing hit hardest.

Migration has surged to record levels, but net EU migration has turned negative.

Public dissatisfaction is high, with 59% believing Brexit has gone poorly.

  • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
    1201·
    2 days ago

    And almost six in 10 Britons (59 per cent) think that Brexit has gone fairly or very badly, with just 12 per cent believing it has gone well, according to a YouGov poll in October.

    Right-wing politics is a scam that people fall for again and again. How often do we see these polls saying right-wing voters are disappointed when exactly what everyone told them would happen happens? Then they fall for the next right-wing scam and do it all over again. No learning ever seems to occur.

    • bleistift2@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      53·
      2 days ago

      No learning ever seems to occur.

      Not so surprising when you remember that leaning left correlates with higher degrees of education.

    • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      432·
      2 days ago

      Because no learning has to occur. The most anger inducing thing about right wing shitfuckery is that to fight against it, it pushes us to do shit that’s… tantamount to right wing shitfuckery.

      In other words, the only language they have understood is power and we’re failing by refusing to accept that the reason they don’t learn is because we haven’t sufficiently dickslapped them into next fucking Thursday over it.

      We do a lot of glad-handing right wing crime and acting like it’s not a big deal while swiftly cracking down on left-wing… anything, not even crime. There was that guy in Florida who did nothing but posted online after Jan 6th 2021 that all leftists needed to be armed and prepared, and he was arrested and put away for longer than anyone who actually was at Jan 6th.

      I know I’m speaking in USA examples, but I’ve seen the same of britain, using kid gloves with white people and cracking down on brown people. Like the whole shebang about “grooming gangs” in the UK is a firestorm of racism and blaming it on immigrants while the statistics and numbers actually say its widely white british people organizing grooming gangs.

      What actually needs to happen is we need to give them what they ask for. They want more law and order and harsher sentences? Fine, that’s what they will get for their bullshit, locked up with less patience and understanding with severely long sentences to keep these fucking idiots who refuse to learn off our fucking streets. They’re the real street trash that needs to be taken the fuck out. If they want to cry all day about being victims of the system, we can show them what real victims of the system deal with.

      They only understand power, so we have to actively show we have power, hold it against them, make them suffer, that’s literally the only thing they will ever fucking understand. They will force us to play their stupid fucking power games just to have a normal fucking society without them, because they will never, ever stop vying for power.

      It’s like the old saying “a conservative would gladly eat shit if they knew a liberal had to smell their breath.” it’s about using power against someone else, even if the only power you have is to upset them. They don’t care as long as it makes them feel like they have power over someone else.

      They view literally everything through the lens of power, is it really such a shocker so many of them are fucking rapists since rape is about power?

      • alchemist2023@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        2 days ago

        good answer it’s has always been about power

        and being able to wield power without corruption is the human condition

        I’m not certain we’re hardwired that way.

        though I’m hopeful