Have we had any tangible benefit to this yet? I'm not stoking fires, maybe there are and somebody could enlighten me?
If you're a very wealthy person, then, yes, there has been a benefit, namely the avoidance of new banking rules that would have made tax avoidance from offshore bank accounts much more difficult had we remained in the EU.
A very useful benefit for Jacob Rees-Mogg who made £6m or so shorting the pound on the result, but nowhere near the profit of other leave backers, some of whom literally made hundreds of millions.
Russia pumped millions during the last couple of weeks before the referendum into adverts on social media promoting leave, so Putin is happy with the return on that investment, which swung the expected result for the first time from remain to leave following that blitz on social media.
Other than that, there are no benefits whatsoever. Every measure of our economic performance since we left the EU is negative, and it's not going to improve in the future.
Brexit is a long term process, and didn't happen in full on the 1st of January 2021. Just last Friday, exporters from the UK have new paperwork to fill out, increasing their costs and making them even more uncompetitive, and new import controls next year are going to add £2B onto our food imports.
It's all a bit different from the claims leavers, like Rees-Mogg, made, that food prices, or the cost of shoes, would come down, and any claim from the remain campaign stating that wasn't true was dismissed as project fear.
It was all bollocks, to the detriment of the average person, but the wealthy got what they wanted.
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