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As a Brit I can not associate a single positive outcome to us leaving the EU. Not saying one doesn't exist but to me, personally, I can't. Many probably feel th
by monkeydust 3y ago
As a Brit I can not associate a single positive outcome to us leaving the EU. Not saying one doesn't exist but to me, personally, I can't. Many probably feel this way so they blame all the big issues we have like prices and immigration on Brexit. Is there direct causation here? Not sure, maybe. Either way I suspect we will end up joining again just might take a decade or two.
Edit: one positive this year was us becoming part of the Horizon programme.
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_23_6327 https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_23_...
- WediBlino 3y agoSlightly smaller wine bottles of course!
- FridgeSeal 3y agoFinally! Slightly smaller wine bottles! Just what the people were asking for!!! /s
- Whoppertime 3y agoWhat were you getting out of EU regulations? Rules on the curvature of Cucumbers and bananas passed by unelected unaccountable bureaucrats who do not represent your interests but that of the collective?
- WediBlino 3y agoHow elected is David Cameron again?
- monkeydust 3y agoNot at all. He's an unelected minister by virtue of being a made a life peer in the house of lords. He stopped being an elected MP a long time ago.
- ceejayoz 3y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euromyth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euromyth
- adammarples 3y agoThat's a very good question using some spurious examples. But broadly speaking: trade. Now we follow those regulations anyway to keep trade with the eu, but we don't help define them.
- midasuni 3y agoNo, a standard trade regulations and common way of dealing with businesses with a ton of consumer protection as voted in by a parliament more representative than my own national Parliament and a council comprised of my national government.
- jdietrich 3y ago>What were you getting out of EU regulations? Economies of scale. Post-Brexit, we've copy-and-pasted nearly all EU regulations, because it turns out that a) writing and maintaining regulations is really difficult and expensive and b) there are massive advantages to having the same regulations as your most important trade partners. A lot of people didn't like the idea of EU regulations, but very few people have identified anything in those regulations that they actually want to change. As a conservative, the whole Brexit project strikes me as antithetical to conservative principles - we abandoned the status quo with no clear idea of what we'd replace it with, nor any clear sense of what the advantages might be. The fallout of Brexit is an incredibly strong vindication of Chesterton's Fence. Shortcomings in EU institutions are a valid justification for leaving only if you're confident that you can replace them with something better; it was only after the referendum that we started seriously discussing what the decision to leave actually meant.
- dfawcus 3y agoActually, they're Codex Alimentarius and/or UNECE marketing standards which we're signed up for in our own right. Nowt to do with the EU. They still apply to us. The only thing the EU rules added were exceptions for undersize bananas which otherwise would not have been allowed.
- mytailorisrich 3y agoBrexit gives the government full control over immigration. The bad news (if you voted Brexit to lower immigration) is that the government wants more immigration...
- midasuni 3y agoDifferent types. No longer immigration from western countries with similar values, they cost too much