Real life, individual benefits of Brexit

[Kermit power]

Morning all,

Ten days from now, we will reach the 5th anniversary of the Brexit referendum.

Obviously at the time we were told all about the possible benefits that might happen if we voted for it, but then the actual initial process was completely overshadowed by the arrival of Covid, so I at least have found it really difficult to decide whether or not there have been any significant benefits, so I'd be really interested to hear examples of people actually directly benefiting from Brexit?

I don't think anyone disagrees that some people have experienced downsides to Brexit, so please could people not swamp the thread with lots of examples of those and just keep to the tangible benefits?

I know there's hundreds of pages of "Brexit, was it worth is Vol 3", but that's an unreadable river of vitriol from both sides arguing about the latest political rhetoric from one mouthpiece or another.

[Kermit power]

Bandit said:

FFS

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[Kermit power]

Bandit said:

Kermit power said:

Bandit said:

FFS

???

As you just said, there are 5 volumes of a thread called "Brexit, was it worth it?"... and you just thought you'd start another one (presumably because the diehard remainers feel they have a tiny bit of momentum right now?)

No, I started another one in the (admittedly probably forlorn) hope that it might garner some actual objective fact before descending into whining from both sides.

Yes, I think Brexit was a terrible mistake, but as I've lived in multiple EU countries, speak multiple EU languages and currently spend more of my day working with EU nationals than other Brits, I am self-aware enough to realise that I'm very much at one end of the scale. Brexit is never going to be advantageous to me personally, but if I can see plenty of my compatriots reaping tangible personal benefit from it, that makes it easier to accept that overall, the decision maybe made sense.