The problem with debating anything to do with Brexit is the promises that were made to win the vote were, by and large, total lies. There was an argument that w

The problem with debating anything to do with Brexit is the promises that were made to win the vote were, by and large, total lies. There was an argument that we didn't have control of immigration because of the freedom of movement, a big part of that was an insistence that the immigration rate was unsustainable. Post brexit immigration has massively increased. So sure, the predictions about all the negative effects of clamping down on immigration were wrong. But that's because we didn't. Similarly, the arguments about companies leaving the UK were based on the premise that UK regulation would diverge from EU regulation. But it hasn't. In a few cases where real regulatory hurdles exist the UK has lost out. I worked for a company that started up an Amsterdam office directly because they needed to be within the EU, and that has genuinely drawn talent away from the UK to the EU. B So far I think the biggest impact of Brexit has actually been state sector not private - suddenly the UK had to replicate the entirity of EU shared beauracracy. So now for example, we have to independently evaluate all drug approvals in what is basically a pointless waste of time replicating something the EU already did.