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I'm curious what valid reasons there are against Brexit? AFAICT, most people arguing it is/was bad are ignoring any kind of evidence. The UK is doing fine, esp

I'm curious what valid reasons there are against Brexit? AFAICT, most people arguing it is/was bad are ignoring any kind of evidence. The UK is doing fine, especially relative to other EU countries. None of the things the anti-Brexit side claimed would happen have happened.

tim333 4mo ago
It's been quite meh economically - we'd be wealthier if we'd remained. Also immigration went up which is not what a lot of Brexiters were hoping. I think a lot of the Brexit vote was just people being fed up and voting for something different. In my experience few Brexit voters are happy with what arrived.
- anonymousiam 4mo ago
  "we'd be wealthier if we'd remained" Briton would be even wealthier still if they had never joined the EU in the first place. https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-8822/ https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-...
  - tim333 4mo ago
    Debatable. Britain used to be a bit of a mess around joining in 1973. Check out British disease https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_British_disease https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_British_disease Sick man of Europe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sick_man_of_Europe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sick_man_of_Europe Things then picked up, especially in finance when in 2014: London overtakes New York to be named world's finance capital https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/london-overtakes-new-york-to-be-named-worlds-finance-capital-9394994.html https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/london-overtakes-new-... then Brexit screwed that up. The charges in your link are nothing compared to that lot really. Headline today: Britain’s debt rising at fastest rate in the world – bar Botswana I mean you can't really say how it would have gone but tearing up the trade deals with your main trading partners is seldom great for business.
- socalgal2 4mo ago
  There's no evidence Britain would be wealthier if it remained.

tim333 4mo ago

It's been quite meh economically - we'd be wealthier if we'd remained. Also immigration went up which is not what a lot of Brexiters were hoping. I think a lot of the Brexit vote was just people being fed up and voting for something different. In my experience few Brexit voters are happy with what arrived.

anonymousiam 4mo ago
"we'd be wealthier if we'd remained" Briton would be even wealthier still if they had never joined the EU in the first place. https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-8822/ https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-...
- tim333 4mo ago
  Debatable. Britain used to be a bit of a mess around joining in 1973. Check out British disease https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_British_disease https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_British_disease Sick man of Europe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sick_man_of_Europe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sick_man_of_Europe Things then picked up, especially in finance when in 2014: London overtakes New York to be named world's finance capital https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/london-overtakes-new-york-to-be-named-worlds-finance-capital-9394994.html https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/london-overtakes-new-... then Brexit screwed that up. The charges in your link are nothing compared to that lot really. Headline today: Britain’s debt rising at fastest rate in the world – bar Botswana I mean you can't really say how it would have gone but tearing up the trade deals with your main trading partners is seldom great for business.
socalgal2 4mo ago
There's no evidence Britain would be wealthier if it remained.