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Brexit finally got done at 23:00 GMT on 31st December 2020 when the UK's Withdrawal Agreement with the EU finally expired. A "trade deal" between the UK and EU was agreed on 24th December. The Alt-Wrong finally got their prize of freedom, democracy and British sovereignty.
What did they actually win? Chaos at the ports, thousands of tonnes of fish that can't be sold, tariffs, duties, and all sorts of things which were once Project Fear and the undemocratic, treasonous lies of the Liberal Metropolitan Elite, Socialists, Marxists, quislings, traitors, lefties and people who hate their country. Socialism, Marxism, EUSSR, Venezuela, toilet paper!
We are on the third week of this glorious new future of sunlit uplands with no downsides, only upsides with much more to look forward to. And Donald Trump is going to give us a fantastic trade deal with the USA straight away.
Over at the Guardian, Polly Toynbee has an excellent summary entitled Brexiters are waking up to the damage they've done.
As Brexiters turn on each other, Brexit politics move fast. Until now the Tories planned to move on, only reviving “Brexit done” triumphalism to re-arouse the captured red wall at the election: Labour just wanted to bury the whole issue.
The Westminster system has failed us (the UK). We are now looking at Irish Reunification and Scottish Independence. Gibraltar has already got its own deal where it gets to join Schengen.
We have Taken Back Control(TM).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 19 2021, @08:51AM
There is no evidence that selling their product locally would be at a loss. Simply that it would likely need to be sold for less than they could get by selling it to foreign nations. And this was expected. Brexit was expected to lead to lower cost domestically obtained seafood, higher cost imported seafood, and lower profit margins for the fishing industry as a whole.
Really I think the issue is quite symbolic of the entire issue in ways entirely unintended. Immigration and globalization do help improve economies but it's not equally distributed. It disproportionately helps the mid to upper class, and harms the lower class due to increased competition from foreign workers who are either imported, or to whom domestic jobs are exported. There's a growing underclass in the UK that overwhelmingly supported Brexit. And now the moneyed corporate class is able to throw a tantrum by simply letting tons of shellfish rot - the same sort of foods this underclass would struggle to be able to regularly afford. 'If we can't have our profit margins, let them eat cake!' An apocryphal but nonetheless apt quote that sums up the mentality. It's akin to a wealthy businessman protesting against a tax hike by lighting millions of dollars on fire. 'That'll show 'em!'