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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, @04:14PM
There being few shellfish enterprises is not the sort of argument you ought want to make. The gross throughput in shellfish is very high, which directly implies what I was speaking of before - that wealth tends to be deeply centralized rather than distributed, even in industries like fishing. The 'little guy' fisher, farmer, and so on has largely faded away to be replaced by larger conglomerate and corporate entities with large margins that tend to be disproportionately directed back towards their executives. A trend in most western nations today.
However, we do actually agree on the bottom line. There will be pros and cons of Brexit. And only the future will tell what happens. I'm curious what you feel were the benefits to the UK's participation in the EU in the past? For negatives I'd point to what I mentioned above about the rapid growth of an economic underclass, greater social instability including things like terror attacks due to diversity, and a substantial deterioration in national sovereignty due to the ability of the EU to impose binding legislation. Benefits? There are countless benefits for the rich and for multinational businesses, but for people/companies not engaged in international commerce? All I can really think of is paper free travel/employment/education throughout the EU. That's not really a great exchange, in my opinion.