How do we resolve the Brexit mess?

[Corky]

The labour shortage probably would not have been near as bad if it wasn't for COVID as every single EU worker qualified for at least for Pre-Settled Status (as long as they applied) or Settled Status if they had spent 5 years here.

With places shutting and people returning to origin countries it has made the situation a lot worse, although there is always churn it was accelerated.

 

[west didsblue]

The labour shortage probably would not have been near as bad if it wasn't for COVID as every single EU worker qualified for at least for Pre-Settled Status (as long as they applied) or Settled Status if they had spent 5 years here.

With places shutting and people returning to origin countries it has made the situation a lot worse, although there is always churn it was accelerated.

Or the government could have recognised that fact and made allowances in the rules.

 

[MillionMilesAway]

We were going to be liberated from excessive red tape.
There was going to be millions of £s for the NHS.
No more johnny foreigners.
We had the whole of the rest of the world to trade with too.

Other than the ill concealed bullshit,
the effects of unintended consequences have been highlighted.

You are a brave person to admit that you were wrong.
Bravo!

I can only assume that the red tape has been replaced by the red white and blue tape.

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

I voted to leave. Was utterly convinced it was the right thing for the nation.

Can now see it was a disastrous decision I and 17 million others made.

Nothing and I really do mean nothing good has come of the vote so far. Will the future reap the benefits promised? Perhaps with greater political leadership but that is simply never going to happen.

At a minimum we should rejoin the single market immediately.

Absolutely nothing wrong with changing your mind, and fair fucks to you for putting that on here; it’s just a massive shame that the people with the power to do anything about it are seemingly incapable of re-evaluating their positions, even when based on the changing landscape.

“Those who never change their minds, never change anything.”​

 

[Bodicoteblue]

Absolutely nothing wrong with changing your mind, and fair fucks to you for putting that on here; it’s just a massive shame that the people with the power to do anything about it are seemingly incapable of re-evaluating their positions, even when based on the changing landscape.

“Those who never change their minds, never change anything.”​

Sadly they have made politics into a dogmatic, divisive, hostile, adversarial system where you have to take a position, and to examine evidence and fact and have them change your mind is seen as a weakness, instead of a strength.

 

[BlueHammer85]

…. I’ve found a Brexit benefit !!!

 

[East Level 2]

Or the government could have recognised that fact and made allowances in the rules.

I'm not sure Johnson's government understood the concept of facts. They certainly ignored all the rules though.

 

[Ifwecouldjust.......]

How it started



How its going.....

 

[Ifwecouldjust.......]

From 2018.... US Embassy staff understanding the impact of Brexit...... better than the 17.4 million who voted for it did.

 

[bluethrunthru]

With places shutting and people returning to origin countries it has made the situation a lot worse, although there is always churn it was accelerated.

That was perfectly understandable. If you were say, working in a supermarket and your family is back home in Italy then you saw stuff on the telly every night from our Govt and on the news from your own country and its the right thing to do and go home to be near your family as - at the start - it looked like Armageddon.

Where the whole thing was mismanaged and misunderstood was setting the bar for them to return so high. I suspect it was partly a Patel crusade because ironically she hates foreigners and see's it her mission to stop people from the EU from coming here. And partly because they just had no understanding of people and what they would do. They failed to grasp what a mass-exodus of workers never to return would look like. They had no idea about what provision people had taken to future proof their lives which meant they could simply quit the workforce. They had no idea what 12 years of austerity had done to the suitability of new entrants to the workforce to be able to do the work and they simply cannot see that somebody stacking shelves or selling you a bacon butty simply cannot exist on the living wage.

We are where we are because of a clueless Govt which is seeing the absolute dregs rise to the top to run the show. Its a pity we are not an aquatic animal because at least then those rising to the top would be bobbing around with the turds they most resemble