Is the UK worse off because of Brexit? | BBC News
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This week marked ten years since the UK voted for Brexit.
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Our Analysis Editor Ros Atkins looks at the impact that Brexit has had on the UK economy.
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We traded immigration from Europe for immigration from countries where child marriage is okay. What do you think?
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The UK got the sweetest deal when entering the EU with many special concessions. And many of these concessions was brought up by the Brexit side as something the EU mandated. Follow the money given to the Brexit side.
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That decision was as idiotic as Trump´s victory in 2 elections.
@anonymusumYes.
@deang1004Remember, you all chose to live in a DAY IN DE LIFE OFF A TRUE BREXIT GEEZA 🗣🔥
@HerwakNicCoincidence that the very neutral BBC have released at least 3 videos by different presenters about how bad Brexit was, prior to Andy Burnham taking over who is clearly a remainer, just another example of the state controlling the narrative, Brexit has never fully been implemented and probably never will be, the labour party swore they wouldn't take us back into Europe but they will and before the next general election.
@PaulClarke-p6qAnd people still voting with the liars 😮😮😮😮😮
@alexpimentase15Finally BBC news does some journalism. Bump for the algorithm so people can see this.
@smark667What is the different ? UK or EU. Both are dumb n follow trump.
@davidchua7519They made their bed
@manasseskamau5327Uk 🇬🇧 Brexit ha had a very devastating unstable system … frequent changes at the top … I have lost count …. Economy in trouble … the golden days are over .. Europe is next with some countries debt ( Italy) etc on the brink … majority of world countries are over 100% gdp in debt … usa 40 trillion is a joke …. Usa will shake the globally monetary system and reset the world before they sink … whether it’s gold repricing or manipulating crypto or more plumbing … something nasty next 2 yrs following a 2027 recession- ( far worse news awaits Uk 🇬🇧 70% of Europe and Uk population is over 70yrs of age today massive strain on pension no youth to provide tax funds on top all western countries face 1.2 birth rates half replacement of 2.5 births and with excess falling birth rates there are only 2 countries in the world which now have over half population under 30ys India thats 1/5 of its population youth approx 250 million. 1.5 billion and Pakistan ( which has even better supply ℹ 120 million youth population make 3/4 under 20yrs)
@HemoglobinBlood-k6bPeople felt for the rhetoric of loudmouth Farage!! Who didn't took any responsebility!!
@marklaurens8177Plebs got propagandised to death. Most UK people don’t even know the UK is in Europe. We got what we deserved.
@UptownBoogieDownBBC has a cheek, pro brexit bias during referendum and still.
@bjbestImmigration has skyrocketed since Brexit; we have LOST control of our borders. The facts speak for themselves. The UK is still waiting for one single benefit that Brexit has given us. The reason for this is that there isn't one; it has been, and will continue to be, a total disaster for the UK and it's population. Those who argued that Brexit was, and is, the patriotic choice have aimed a wrecking ball at the economy and the people of the UK. It is the single largest act of sabotage even perpetrated on the country, the most unpatriotic crime ever committed.
@marsteden5379The BBC has failed to provide those still willing to listen to their lies anything to hang on to.
@alostpilgrimsjourney5953I get so irrationally mad when I see clips of those celebrating the Leave vote like it was some kind of football match. They had no idea what they were voting for and yet put their entire heart and soul behind supporting it. People do my head in sometimes.
@JordyBoothySoft brexit has been. A hard brexit would have been better.
@nathanroth4086Brexit was based on total lies and very gullible people believing them instead of doing the research. A total disaster setting this country back decades . The sooner we rejoin the sooner we can begin the recovery back to prosperity.
@AG-vk9gq10 years since we voted for it, yet we still haven't got it. That's the real problem. The fault was allowing Boris to be the architect of it.
@michaelorme1687Its took ten years to say this shows you how stupid the country is.
@LIJXFVKINBVYI think the biggest cost to the UK is the breakdown of society and the rise of the far right. Racists now have a voice - and a party
@billyriley492Thé UK, like my country the United States is a victim of its arrogance and evil colonialist history.
Let’s remember how you robbed India, the Arab world, Iran, Africa and how you massacred millions of Native Americans in North America.
As if this wasn’t enough, your unethical bankers and immoral politicians Balfour, Sykes, Lloyd … erased Palestine, redrew the map of the Arab world and created Israel, a fascist, artificial and Zionist Project that uses my religion to steal Palestinian lands and history.
The Creation of Zionist Israel has been a catastrophic Seismic Tragedy to the Palestinian People, to Lebanon and the entire region which is actually wrecking the GLOBAL ECONOMY.
May be it’s time to come down to earth and take an inward look at your indecent history and gangster political class that joined us to wreck Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan… Our wars displaced millions of refugees and now we’ve got to deal with the NEOFASCISTS parties rising and hoping to take over.´The indecency of Starmer has been a godsend bonus to the neofascists like Farage, Robinson…
Meanwhile, keep sleepwalking !
In other news, it turns out water is in fact wet.
@adsdavies832Anyone who believes anything Farage or Johnson ever say is a deluded clown.
@JediAvengerI always knew that to leave Europe was the most dangerous thing for the world, as if it weren't for Brexit, Russia wouldn't have got the idea that NATO had become fractured, especially as Russia had already taken over Crimea. 2016 was the worst time to show Russia that Europe and NATO were falling apart, as a voice outside of Europe certainly meant we had no voice to bolster Europe's stand against Russia. Even once the full-scale war had started, we rushed arms to Ukraine, while a weaker Europe seemed shell-shocked and sat on its hands until Russia was forced to retreat from the Kyiv region. Even then they were very reticent to provide heavy weapons until Britain took the lead. We've never been so close to WWIII as we are today, and that includes the Cuban Missile Crisis. If WWIII kicks off, then how much is that going to cost us in pounds and people? You cannot give these sorts of decisions to a population that has a narrow view of the outcome and cannot see the bigger picture. Populations, it seems, have a very short memory about what happens when a country goes rogue in Europe, as it always ends up with war being declared somewhere. This decision was so, so short-sighted, but what worries me most is that there were politicians that supported such a wreckless decision, proving they shouldn't be let anywhere near the policial stage.
@shaneclarke2704** UK HURT ITSELF IN CONFUSION **
@mickey_ukNigel Farage’s psychiatrist asks: “So Nigel, are these Brexit benefits you mention in the room with us now?”
@Ken-d9j6jECONOMIC SUISIDE. BRAIN DEAD UK.
@davidgill8996Feel bad for Scottish people who've voted against Brexit, but still dragged anyway
@Dunno1999Take my word,the UK from my perspective, is better as an independent country than being dictated to by the EU, an undemocratic, dictatorship institution, except that Kier Starmer starved UK's economic growth to justify his foolish dictatorship idealogy to justify the fact that the UK outside the EU could not succeed and needed to reverse Brexit. What is better with the EU more than what the UK is practicing already?Is it the EU bureaucracy that works better than the UK parliamentary system and therefore expedite shorter decison making for greater UK economic growth, and as a consequence help avoiding lengthy bureaucracy? The Labour's wicked and myopic perception about Brexit was designed to kill the UK economy and justify the negative argument agianst the peospects of Brexit itself to justify its reversal. The economy of numerous countries around the world are doing excellently alone without being part of a larger bureaucratic union. Japan, Indonesia, Brazil, South Africa, and many more are doing well standing alone. Reversing brexit means the UK going to be controlled by Berlin. UK, tou could build yoir great country without the EU or the Labour government.
The UK is a very great nation. Brits, do not treat your country as a finished and incapable country. You have the talents and are endowed with brilliance. Why are you telling the world the you can't succeed without the EU. It's your previous reliance on the EU that is making you think that UK's success will depend on the EU. It's can never be true. The whole world knows that you possess the capacity to succeed outside EU.
Project Fear turned out to be completely correct.
In fact, Project Fear was a good example of British understatement
Not a very intelligent question.
@robertritchie2860I still like to know from brexeteers what benefits Brexit had.
@bertoverweel6588The only thing destroying Britain is tolerance.
@JonLettsWell at least the Racists have something to reflect on...
@NormanFinkelstein9863Worse off because of dithering, uncommitted politicians and civil service and if course the past-sell-by-date BBC.
@BrianForsyth-b6eIt was never allowed to happen it was a lash up. All bullshit and shitstirrers
@TheInquisitorTVReverse that stupid Brexit!
@DemoizellaDon't need to watch. It was obvious then we would be and so it has proved.
@markheard4334Britain is living in Paradise. A lot of money is saved.
@aa6945Look how well the NHS is doing with the extra £350 million per week provided by Brexit! 😆
@zebo-the-fatNo - It because it has used immigration to inflate its GDP. Every person you took in reduced GPD per person... Had the UK not have used immigration to inflate its population since the 70s the population would be less than 50million - GDP would be 20-25% more per person.
@forestgump8401Depends on whether or not you are very wealthy, but the question there is really are the very rich better or worse off because of Brexit. If you aren't one of them, you lose.
@thomasjamison2050What entitlement does to a mf. They had by far the best deal on the EU but decided to blew it up
@thekitchenchikensNo mention of brexiters beloved small boats? And the "commonwealth" immigration they were telling everyone needed to be raised because it was "unfair?"
@princesspooch3So stupid what you did..And we warned you!
@user-xt4wu2lp7uYes.Period..
@user-xt4wu2lp7uIt's no real surprise that many who supported Brexit refuse to accept that it's had an inevitable, negative economic impact (whilst also depriving people of freedom of movement, diminishing the UK's reputation and influence globally, inevitably leading to... higher immigration, etc.).
These people do not care about facts. They are incapable of accepting the complexity of the issues they claim to care about. They're easily manipulated and were used by a tiny minority who stood to benefit from Brexit to vote against their own interests. They're like the MAGA lot, and those lapping up populist right wing nonsense globally.
These people are fundamentally acting against the interests of their countries and in the interests of competitors and enemies.
To use a word they often like to use - they're acting a lot like traitors.