Ten years after the Brexit vote, Britain is still debating whether leaving the EU was the right decision. Supporters promised stronger growth, more control and a new global future outside Europe. But a decade later, the UK economy has struggled with weak growth, lower investment, trade barriers, labour shortages and falling living standards. Meanwhile, public opinion has shifted sharply, with a majority now saying Brexit was a mistake. In this video, we look at the economic cost of Brexit, why Brexit regret keeps rising, how the EU became more popular after 2016, and whether Britain could ever move closer to Europe again. We also examine trade data, migration, investment, inflation, food prices and the political consequences of leaving the EU. Has Brexit delivered what was promised — or has it become Britain’s lost decade?

0:00 Brexit

2:52 Costs of Brexit

3:35 Referendum

4:44 Migration

5:49 Free Trade Deal

6:39 Is Brexit really that bad?

7:50 Rejoining?

  • Fusselwurm@feddit.org
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    UK Regret Grows

    serious question: how does that jive with Nigel Farage’s party of morons becoming ever stronger?

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      Propaganda works, and the tech oligarchs have their entire massive weight on the scales there just like they do everywhere else.

    • gian @lemmy.grys.it
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      serious question: how does that jive with Nigel Farage’s party of morons becoming ever stronger?

      Because the others are doing a miserable job, probably. And because Farage’s party is united while the left is splitted in a lot of smaller parties which often fight between them

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        Are they though? Reform has already split into reform and restore, so they aren’t as united as you think.

        About labour, are they really that bad or do people have unrealistic expectations? I don’t know tbh.

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          Are they though? Reform has already split into reform and restore, so they aren’t as united as you think.

          Maybe, but as far as I see they seems to run as a single entity or in any case the split seems to be irrelevant.

          About labour, are they really that bad or do people have unrealistic expectations? I don’t know tbh.

          It is probably a mix of the two reasons, as always, adding irrealistic campaign promises to the mix.

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      Most likely “They did Brexit wrong!”. The Brexit that Farage would have delivered, given the chance, would have unicorns crapping out rainbows all over Britain making everything magically better.

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      Probably not even mentioned by reform.
      They will be anti-immigrant pro-taxcuts “make everything better (without having to explain how)” kinda deal