Brexit

https://archive.is/2025.01.23-110549/https://www.ft.com/content/ae70737d-3e41-4ead-9679-d96b8f089612

https://archive.is/2025.01.16-094419/https://www.ft.com/content/d886f7f5-ec39-4645-a574-1d042dc5dd89

https://archive.is/2025.01.13-185200/https://www.ft.com/content/e140488a-2a1a-495f-a6b0-0e9e76832eec

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.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/24109478

This is becoming like a yearly tradition now.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/23265992

Paywall? https://archive.is/lFCl6

https://archive.is/2024.12.12-211246/https://www.ft.com/content/cc70d299-2f1f-470f-bc39-dbb656856fc5

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/22865526

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Save you a click:

“Regarding Nick Inman’s request in October’s Connexion for people who are happier after Brexit: well, my husband and I, both of whom voted for Brexit, are no less happier than when we arrived in France in 2003.

“We voted for Brexit because we were under the impression that the UK would be able to control immigration and would regain sovereignty. That was a mistake and it did not work. However, since then, as far as we are concerned, life here is just as good as the day we arrived. 

“The only people who do not like Brexit are the moaners who did not get their own way. They were so convinced they knew best that many did not even bother to vote.
June Shute, by email.”

In short, then: June voted for Brexit so Britain could control immigration and regain sovereignty, both of which she admits it has failed to deliver. She sees no other ill-effects of Brexit, but that is because she lives in France, and not the UK – an opportunity that her vote has helped to deny to millions of others. And anyone who complains about the lack of logic in the above is just a moaner.

https://archive.is/2024.10.29-173813/https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/welcome-to-the-new-brexit-wars/

https://archive.is/2024.10.20-170815/https://www.ft.com/content/4bb5c95d-7ef6-4d42-9456-57063766ea0c

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/30200340

He said that in the meantime it was essential for the UK’s productivity and growth to reduce the damaging impact of the Brexit deal struck by Boris Johnson “as best we possibly can”.

NHS would be hit by 'significant' costs if UK loses EU data status, warn Lords As another government yet again seeks to reform UK GDPR, legislators say data must continue to flow

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/21280680

https://archive.is/2024.10.25-085548/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/starmer-brexit-eu-brussels-b2635110.html

Exclusive: Starmer urged to reverse the damage done by Brexit by pursuing closer ties with Europe after vast costs of leaving bloc revealed

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