Brexit was a dumb idea, admit it

[Finnish Swede]

Referendums are dangerous if people are too ignorant and stupid to understand what they are voting for.


Same reasons: I'm glad Finland or Sweden didn't do that about countries submitting NATO applications or bilateral DCA (Defense Cooperation Agreement) with the United States. The referendum would have worked in an ideal world, if the issue had been given 10 years review period (clear to the people) and Russia (hyper-influence) could have been seen as non-existent.


Reality is different.

[Your Old Comrade]

Referendums are dangerous if people are too ignorant and stupid to understand what they are voting for.


Same reasons: I'm glad Finland or Sweden didn't do that about countries submitting NATO applications or bilateral DCA (Defense Cooperation Agreement) with the United States. The referendum would have worked in an ideal world, if the issue had been given 10 years review period (clear to the people) and Russia (hyper-influence) could have been seen as non-existent.


Reality is different.

Same. I think that referendums usually only work in either a local or, when applied nationally, immediate corrective setting.

[Dick]

Engerlund!! (and Ireland)

[Your Old Comrade]

A look at different forecasts for UK economy in 2024. Prospects for inflation, growth, disposable income and interest rates.

Text version at
https://www.economicshelp.org/blog/21...

And another scheme is failing:

“There is a 50% chance at best that this bill pass.”

The government's new Rwanda asylum plan is unlikely to go ahead, says The Sunday Times’ Deputy Political Editor Harry Yorke.

[Universe]

Was Brexit bad for British economy? Too early to tell
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[Your Old Comrade]

And yet another scheme is falling apart:

A look at why costs of HS2 rose above initial expectations. Why it is not just about HS2 but wider issues of building infrastructure in the UK. What can be done about it?

Text version
https://www.economicshelp.org/blog/21...

Sources:

► https://www.samdumitriu.com/p/britain...
► https://www.newcivilengineer.com/late...
► https://www.gov.uk/government/publica...
► https://www.instituteforgovernment.or...
► https://www.britainremade.co.uk/brita...
► https://inews.co.uk/opinion/hs2-doome...
► https://www.railtechnologymagazine.co... - HS1
► https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel... CC BY-SA 4.0

[Your Old Comrade]

The Bank of England halted its long run of interest rate increases on Thursday. One day after a surprise slowing in Britain's fast pace of price growth, the BoE's Monetary Policy Committee decided by a narrow margin to keep the key lending rate at 5.25%. However, economists believe the country’s economy is plagued by serious underlying issues which the government must address. DW correspondent Birgit Maass speaks to economist Kay Neufeld to find out more.

[Your Old Comrade]

And the Brexiteers destroyed the NHS as well now:

Imagine you’ve fallen ill. There’s fever and pain, and it doesn’t go away. A trip to the doctor’s office lands you in the emergency room. Surgery follows, then several nights in the hospital. Weeks later, after more doctor’s appointments and loads of prescription medicine, you’re all well again, fit as a fiddle.

And then they let you go on your merry way, without paying a penny. That’s right: $0.

If you’re living in the United States, that is probably the stuff of fantasies. But not for our cousins in Britain, thanks to one of that country’s most noble creations: the National Health Service.

It was founded in 1948 to provide free health care to all residents and has proudly stood as a much-loved symbol of British identity and the welfare state.

But for several years the N.H.S., which celebrated its 75th birthday last summer, has been suffering its own serious health crisis. Last winter was the worst period ever for the system. People died in their homes waiting for ambulances to arrive, and hospitals overflowed with patients, with some assigned beds jammed into corridors. Millions of Britons have waited months for surgeries, and some, unable to find an N.H.S. dentist, have resorted to pulling out their own teeth. After a decade of stagnant salaries, nurses and doctors have staged walkouts, adding to the crisis.

Now, as a new winter approaches, N.H.S. staff members fear that things will get even worse.

The crisis has led to calls for Britain to scrap universal health care and return to a private or hybrid health system, like in the United States and other European countries. But as the Opinion video above argues, the N.H.S.’s woes are not a function of how it’s funded but the result of something else entirely.

[Your Old Comrade]

The UK's post-Brexit farming subsidy scheme in 2023 is known as the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI). It is a new system of payments to farmers that is designed to support environmental sustainability and productivity.

This is the Outside Views channel on UK politics after Brexit.

Brexit did not happen immediately after the Brexit referendum in 2016. There were exhausting negotiations between the UK and the EU first about the exit of the UK and then about the future relationship between the EU and the UK.

After the official Brexit on January 31st in 2020, where the UK officially left the EU and with it the Parliament, there was a transitional period until December 31st in 2020 to implement the new relationship.

There are some longer transitional periods for some areas, but this was the main one.
People are talking a lot about the level of preparation for Brexit on different sides or the lack of.

[Laredo]

The way I see people who complaints the was a bad Idea are none British citizens/nationals because England Is no longer part of the EU and therofore Serbians, Romanians, Polish etc can no longer go there to work and need special visas now