Quote Originally Posted by Elite_Pie View Post
What exactly are the benefits of Brexit?
They are not going to appear overnight are they? Or is that what you thought would happen? It's going to take time for institutions and practices to settle to a new order. Having left trade negotiations to the EU we had lost the skills of carrying out such deals ourselves.

Just recently https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66172158:

"A new global company being launched by French motor giant Renault and Chinese carmaker Geely is set to have its headquarters in the UK.

The firms will invest up to €7bn ($7.7bn; £6bn) to develop low-emission petrol, diesel and hybrid engines.

It will employ about 19,000 workers at its 17 engine factories, as well as five research and development hubs."

We've not had a fair wind in our sails with the triple whammies of Covid, Ukraine, Global Warming, a bit like Notts' first season in the NL being curtailed when all was looking good.

Personally I'm disappointed that there hasn't been the leadership competence to move deal with all the issues and that sentiment extends to both sides of the political fence. But we will adapt and we will be free of the decades of wrangling and bickering, a bit like handbags, that have blighted our attempts at being European. We're not, it's not in our DNA. It never has been in any era. Prime Minister after Prime Minister struggled to try to retain our Britishness and be a part of Europe. The reason a referendum was held (and remember that there wasn't one to have political union with Europe) was the constant arguments going on with the EU and that's why Cameron promised a vote if he was elected. The British public had mainly made its mind up then, before all the spin and smoke and mirrors that sensible Brexiteers saw through and ignored.

In our time in the EU we would not give up the £, or the pint, we did not join the Schengen travel area and no doubt many other schemes that our European neighbours embraced. Nothing wrong with the schemes - just not in our DNA.

We're starting to sort out trade deals and new laws. Different I know, but we have regained (or have the opportunity to regain) our own dignity and destiny away from the bureaucratic, faceless and undemocratic machine that is the EU.

No-one said it would be easy but don't go around spouting that everyone who voted Brexit was fooled. Some, maybe many, understand that we joined a trading market, for which we voted, and then got sucked into something unwittingly until it manifested itself as a cancer.