The strangest thing about brexit is that all it took was one single 50% vote to exit.<p>After untold time, money, effort and history put into joining Europe, you’d have thought that tearing the whole thing down would have required best of three votes to exit, or a supermajority, or a 12 month cooldown followed by a deciding second vote, or an “time apart” period before ending the relationship.<p>Instead all it took was some politicking and a vote and it’s over. Seems a huge flaw in the planning of joining Europe in the first place. I suppose they didn't anticipate brexit as a real possibility.
Everyone except those that keep their money in the British offshore banking system, the real reason behind Brexit as Eu banking regs would have been a big problem.<p>It is estimated that half of the worlds wealth resides in the British offshore banks.
I find it puzzling that every suggestion of how to recover relative prosperity for a western society reads like it was written by stage coach drivers or their reluctant employers.<p>UK unemployment is somehow¹ only like 3.5%. To win relative to other countries you need to automate away domestic service and maintenance jobs and put those people in higher paid jobs, jobs related to exports, etc.<p>I'm going to guess Slovenia isn't passing the UK by making impossibly complex privatization scams that need more people to get other people, their communications or their goods from point A to B, domestically or convince them to pay more for that..<p>¹ Of course a plan like that excludes the people not seeking work so there are other options.. But the plans you hear from politicians are basically how to make a profit gouging your people for their savings and somehow indefinitely maintain a higher GDP as a result of those internal redistributions of money.
Can somebody from the UK confirm?<p>It's been a hugely divisive topic from what I've gathered in the last years.<p>Are things on average worse, or the same, or better?
For Brexit supporters - was it worth it from an autonomy perspective?<p>A lot of the arguments I heard were things like, "we don't want Brussels having such a strong say in our <country/government/people/culture/etc>!"<p>Do you feel the economy is worse but you have better control or options?
I'm more curious about how it compares to other Western nations. There's only a sentence or two about that, and neither gives specifics.<p>A lot of the issues listed - high inflation, product shortages, worker shortages, strikes, etc. all happened here in the US and worldwide as far as I'm aware.
For me there is value (I'm not sure exactly how much) to avoid having an unelected technocrats in Brussels (and sometimes Strasbourg) write the rules I must abide by.