Posted on 07/02/2024 7:12:58 AM PDT by posterchild
When Britain voted to exit the European Union in 2016, Donald Trump, then the Republican candidate for president, declared himself “Mr. Brexit.” Trump claimed solidarity with the nationalism, isolationism, and anti-immigrant fervor that drove Brexiteers and incorporated it into the America First platform he pursued after winning the 2016 presidential race.
Brits now view their populist experiment as a dismal failure. Champions of Brexit, such as former Prime Minister Boris Johnson, promised that severing political and economic integration with most of the rest of Europe would boost prosperity and self-sufficiency and leave more money for government services.
Instead, the UK economy has stagnated, with income and economic growth lower than it would have been otherwise. Those effects are likely to worsen through 2035. Most Brits now suffer “Bregret,” with polls in early June showing a record 69% of Brits thought Brexit turned out to be the wrong move. The fiasco is a major contributor to the collapse of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservative government — and the party’s likely shellacking in the upcoming July 4 election.
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Mine too. My father came here from Holland with his parents and two brothers, through Ellis Island in 1913. He was 8 years old. My mother came from Ontario, Canada when she was 3 or 4, with her divorced mother, and only brother in the early 20's. She never knew that members of her family had already settled in downstate New York. from England, one coming over much earlier on the Mayflower and settling in Plymouth. I had Patriots and Tories on her side of the family. Some of the Tories left New York and settled in Ontario, which is how she ended up being born there.
Also ignoring what’s going on in France
The whole article is a bunch of bull.
If Brexit is a failure, why are the migrants still passing through France and Germany to get to the UK?
The citizens of all English-speaking countries need to realize that free movement of people is a path to personal economic decline for most of them.
How many of you are looking to get a job in Honduras?
How’s your Polish?
Many Spanish in desirable areas are up in arms over the fact that the incomes they earn barely cover their living costs.
The EU will insist on the “free movement” of people even with a Labour government and they will not budge on the issue.
What a stupid article...
Ignores something else.
The UK Brexited in name only.
They are paying for attempting to Brexit the same way we are being made to pay for voting for Trump.
It was a failure because of the UK Deep State/Administrative State & the Tories incompetence. But the populist movement is still alive & well.
We are told the H-1B visa program is necessary because there’s sometimes no American with the needed skills available.
Surely, the continent must have a similar skills shortage problem.
If a continental company really needs a skilled Brit, they will bring in the Brit.
How many Brits have skills that can’t be found in the EU? is it even as high as 10,000?
The EU has been nasty to the UK.
Why would you want to be governed by nasty people?
Obviously, voters in Europe are much more happy with their governments...
“conducting business across borders”
The exporting British companies should follow EU production and product laws.
The small British companies selling only to the EU should be able to avoid unnecessary EU laws.
Is the EU causing problems for American exporters?
What are these problems?
And do tell me why a Chinese company can sell into the EU without complying with EU labor laws.
Yahoo finance, a prominent member of fake news.
As far as I know, no foreign country would permit me to get a job in it.
“Instead, the UK economy has stagnated, with income and economic growth lower than it would have been otherwise.”
“WOULD have been...” says the all-knowing author.
No. Even mass migration can work if you make them wait in line like civilized folk and vet them. Failing that, you have surrendered the game — which is exactly what the Conservatives deliberately did. The Cons were like our RINOs.
This is utter garbage. The whole of Europe is stagnating, whether in the EU or not. Why does this guy think the “far” right is on the rise in France, Germany, Italy and most other major countries? It’s not because everything is going well.
The trouble is that Brexit was dealt with by people who viewed Brexit as a problem to be mitigated, not an opportunity to be seized. The Tories failed to scrap EU regulations that are stifling business and will not leave the ECHR which is stopping it deporting the illegals as Brexit promised. Brexit is failing because it was never fully implemented.
Even mass migration can work if you make them wait in line
True, i was being politically correct in not calling it a Moslem third world invasion.
The ECHR (European Convention on Human Rights) is apart from the EU, not a part of the EU. It was created in the aftermath of WW II, with Churchill/Britain a leading force, by the newly formed Council of Europe. Membership today goes far beyond the EU and includes the likes of Russia and Turkey; 46 states in total.
The ECHR as such is not the problem IMO, it is the abusive implementation by the Court when it comes to illegal immigration (I'd go so far as to call it a hostile invasion) - nobody signed up for that! That must and can be fixed, in principle. Though I'm not currently holding my breath.
We cannot influence the ECHR, they are unaccountable to any elected government. Britain needs to ditch it entirely. I find the idea that we cannot be trusted with our own supreme Court as the highest legal authority frankly insulting.
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