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This kind of news really isn't that surprising. What's concerning (if you're from the UK) is that unfortunately the current government don't seem keen to admit

This kind of news really isn't that surprising. What's concerning (if you're from the UK) is that unfortunately the current government don't seem keen to admit the reality of the impact to trade that brexit will have. Without that admission, it's hard for them to come up with strategies to mitigate it. You see this lack of acknowledgement of the inevitable here and also on the situation with Northern Ireland and the impact on export businesses in the UK

AnimalMuppet 6y ago
The current government made the mess. Politically, it's hard for them to admit that it is a mess. "Everything is proceeding well and according to plan, citizen. There is no need for you to be concerned..."
- addicted 6y ago
  Brexit, by its very nature was always going to be damaging to the UK both financially and otherwise. But it really did not need to be this bad. The UK government’s lack of acknowledgment of reality and absolutely no efforts to prepare for the impacts of Brexit or focus on the industries that actually matter as opposed to those that are just symbolic has made a much bigger mess than it ever needed to be.
  - toyg 6y ago
    It's the modern equivalent to the 70s/80s de-industrialization under Thatcher: maybe it had to be done, but the tories are needlessly bent on doing it in the harshest possible way - for reasons exclusively related to internal power struggles in their party. A generation will suffer for it, and the next one will again swear they'll never vote Conservative... until they make a bit of money, and then it's back to blue.
  - t0mas88 6y ago
    What struck me as crazy was the focus on fishing rights. More than there are boats to actually do the fishing with, while there are so many more economically impact full topics left without a solution.
    - ashtonkem 6y ago
      It’s like coal mining in Kentucky and Pennsylvania; they’re more important to the region’s self image than they are to the region’s current economic reality. This sometimes creates silly circumstances where policy is aimed at a sector that’s fundamentally not that big, and hurts more people than it helps.
hackeraccount 6y ago
I cannot stress this enough. It hurts both Europe and the UK equally. People act like whatever it is that's done the City of London is something any idiot could do given the chance. Maybe that's the case but I doubt it. Whatever's being done there is something that everyone in Europe is now missing out on. That's a complicated view though. It's much easier to say that those idiots have been replaced but some other set and everyone in London is now on the dole.

AnimalMuppet 6y ago

The current government made the mess. Politically, it's hard for them to admit that it is a mess. "Everything is proceeding well and according to plan, citizen. There is no need for you to be concerned..."

addicted 6y ago
Brexit, by its very nature was always going to be damaging to the UK both financially and otherwise. But it really did not need to be this bad. The UK government’s lack of acknowledgment of reality and absolutely no efforts to prepare for the impacts of Brexit or focus on the industries that actually matter as opposed to those that are just symbolic has made a much bigger mess than it ever needed to be.
- toyg 6y ago
  It's the modern equivalent to the 70s/80s de-industrialization under Thatcher: maybe it had to be done, but the tories are needlessly bent on doing it in the harshest possible way - for reasons exclusively related to internal power struggles in their party. A generation will suffer for it, and the next one will again swear they'll never vote Conservative... until they make a bit of money, and then it's back to blue.
- t0mas88 6y ago
  What struck me as crazy was the focus on fishing rights. More than there are boats to actually do the fishing with, while there are so many more economically impact full topics left without a solution.
  - ashtonkem 6y ago
    It’s like coal mining in Kentucky and Pennsylvania; they’re more important to the region’s self image than they are to the region’s current economic reality. This sometimes creates silly circumstances where policy is aimed at a sector that’s fundamentally not that big, and hurts more people than it helps.

hackeraccount 6y ago

I cannot stress this enough. It hurts both Europe and the UK equally. People act like whatever it is that's done the City of London is something any idiot could do given the chance. Maybe that's the case but I doubt it. Whatever's being done there is something that everyone in Europe is now missing out on. That's a complicated view though. It's much easier to say that those idiots have been replaced but some other set and everyone in London is now on the dole.