'We're all worse off': Britain is now paying the price to leave the EU

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&#x27;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&#x27;m going to guess Slovenia isn&#x27;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&#x27;s been a hugely divisive topic from what I&#x27;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, &quot;we don&#x27;t want Brussels having such a strong say in our &lt;country&#x2F;government&#x2F;people&#x2F;culture&#x2F;etc&gt;!&quot;<p>Do you feel the economy is worse but you have better control or options?

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I&#x27;m more curious about how it compares to other Western nations. There&#x27;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&#x27;m aware.

For me there is value (I&#x27;m not sure exactly how much) to avoid having an unelected technocrats in Brussels (and sometimes Strasbourg) write the rules I must abide by.