Brexit's Broken Promises: The Real Impact

There's no punishment of UK from EU. UK is just treated as every other non-EU country. If you are used to EU privileges and you are losing them by leaving the EU, it may feel like punishment, but it's just the life outside the EU.

The only country in history that actually imposed tariffs against itself.

Being treated by the EU as a third country is the UK'S own choice not a punishment by the EU!

So... the EU is punishing the UK, by giving it exactly what it asked for. It couldn't be that the UK had four years to prepare for leaving, and made no preparations.

The EU is NOT punishing the UK. We simply do not care about them.

An error: Boris Johnson was actually all in favour of remaining in the EU, until he realised he could get to power with the Leave campaign. He switched sides early on, to devastating effect. He has become seen to be a major part, if not THE major part, of the demise of the British economy, stability and political discourse over the recent years.

Brexiteers: "we don't want to be in the EU!" Also brexiteers: "the EU is treating us as a non-EU country! That's unfair!"

The British got what they wanted and what they voted for, they are out of the EU, they can negotiate their own treaties and agreements with around 194 countries and they can take care of the immigration issues related to these countries themselves. Of course they don't have preferential access to the EU internal market and they no longer have freedom of travel within the EU, but that's what they wanted. These are the benefits they wanted and got, but there is no punishment from the EU. You have voluntarily terminated your Clug membership and are now surprised that you can no longer use the benefits of club membership. Find the mistake

I don't see a betrayal by the EU.

EU is a package deal, and single market is part of it. You can leave EU, but then you will leave the common market, as well. It's simple as that. EU isn't punishing UK, UK is punishing itself. But that's your right, of course.

One thing needs correcting - the UK government did NOT apply the safeguards included in the EU directive on Free Movement designed to ensure citizens of other EU states would not become a burden on the UK. And that is something that Caneron kept coming up against when he did his round of EU capitals prior to the Referendum seeking a better deal for the UK. Why are you not applying the rules already in place he kept being asked - he had no answer!

My Perspective on Brexit I used to buy most of my things from Amazon and eBay UK. However, after 2020, my orders started getting stuck in customs for weeks with heavy fees to pay. Consequently, I shifted my purchases to Amazon Germany. And that’s the end of the story.

The point of Brexit was deregulating the financial sector. Despite the government's assertions of wanting to improve economic competitiveness through Brexit, their real aim was to enhance competitiveness and regulatory efficiency in the financial sector. They chose to ignore the fact that post-Brexit deregulation in the financial sector, alongside a fragile economy lacking decades of public investment, would lead to the disastrous consequences Brexit Britain is facing right now.

No, the UK was not one of the first ones to enter the coalition (EU). It reluctantly joined the EEC because the trade alliance it created with Sweden, Denmark was not fulfilling expectations. The UK was ALWAYS half in half out.

The EU isn't punishing the UK. When EU citzens decide what goods or services to spend money on, cost and quality are still what they think of first. There is no 'secret' mechanism whereby the European Commission is delibrately stopping purchases of UK goods and services.

The EU is not punishing the UK it is dealing with it the very same as every other third country, but been british they have to blame the EU for their own failures. The uk was not one of the first EEC countries

If you leave the prestigious golf club and stop paying the membership fee, why do you expect the club to let you play for free or even bother to spend any time punishing or even thinking of you when lots of other wants to be new members?

I'm from the US and I can certainly state that it is possible for people to emotionally vote against their own best interests. Particularly when those interests are exploited by the political class. Basically lies. What you going to do now?

It won't implode but it's making a lot of things unnecessarily difficult and people are missing lots of opportunities. Farage and his mob have a lot to answer for and no politician has the spine to address the situation.

The one thing the EU is certainly not doing is punishing the Uk for leaving. What the Uk is currently experiencing is the start and only the start of the consequences of leaving the EU. The negotiations such as they were as far as the Tory party was concerned were not meant to give the Uk special status, it threw that privilege away when it chose to leave, They were to smooth that leaving sufficiently to prevent economic shock that could have driven an already shakey economy over the edge because the government was fully aware of the consequences of leaving the EU in terms of restricted trade and travel. The problem was they had not told the people about this or the extent of the loss they would incur. They kept very quiet about it all choosing instead to spoon-feed it in small palatable portions and with each new traunch of restrictions infer that this was not the fault of the government but of the EU and yet all of it was clearly written down in the form of rules and regulations about the operation of the Single Market and the Customs Union. Rules and regulations the Uk had once had a larger part in defining and had happily enjoyed the protections of for years. Rules and Regulations they had now chosen to have used against them. Those that wanted Brexit lied and deceived the people of the Uk by first not educating them about the EU making it easy for them to gaslight the population into walking out of the Union. Second, they could have explained to the people exactly what leaving actually meant to them personally. They did not, worse still they tried to build a smokescreen to prevent them seeing it at all and finally they used their own democratic system against the people by claiming that Brexit gave them a mandate to leave when it did no such thing. The Brexit vote was nothing more than an opinion poll, it placed no charge on the government to act at all. The mandate only became apparent when the Tory party won the next election on that ticket after months of bombarding the people with the message that leave meant leave and then using every political trick in the playbook to prevented any form of meaningful debate on the matter and having a weak opposition led by people who covertly wanted the Uk to leave the EU it became a done deal even before the due date. Can the Uk ever rejoin the EU, Possibly in years to come that might be possible but for the foreseeable future with no political or public consensus on the matter the answer must remain no, the Uk can not rejoin the EU, it can negotiate for better access possibly under EFTA but it will then come under the scrutiny of the rules of the Single Market regarding an area of legislation the government and its financial backers would much rather the public never be allowed to understand, it is a subject a lot are aware of buy no one dares mention it for the ridicule and scorn that they are subjected to in the Tory client media for doing so but if we are to make any progress on this matter the Uk is going to be subjected to those rules and regulations and it is going to have to comply or pay the price in hard cash. If you know then you know of what it is I speak and you also know that it was the reason behind Brexit in the first place.