How do we resolve the Brexit mess?

Saxmundham Blue said:
It's been an absolute disaster.

Anyone who voted in the 1973 referendum shouldn't have been eligible to vote in 2016.

The younger generation will have us back in the EU within a few years
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Such a terrible decision. The EU was far from perfect, but our system was already palpably broken. Now it is crushed.
 
No. And I’m glad I’m still getting jobs as a translator because I worried Brexit would put me out of a job, but then speaking a language used in Africa and Canada helps.
 
Had to leave the EU and all its meddlesome rules and regulations so that the country could become the world centre for cryptocurrency, but that will involve creating strict rules and regulations for a market that exists outside of rules and regulations and deliberately shuns them. Go figure.
 
Saxmundham Blue said:
It's been an absolute disaster.

Anyone who voted in the 1973 referendum shouldn't have been eligible to vote in 2016.

The younger generation will have us back in the EU within a few years
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I'm not sure I agree with arbitrary removal of voting rights because the folk concerned won't vote for the outcome you like - it's just a little bit Hitler-ish for me.
I do agree we'll be back in in a few years though in some form.
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
It’s easy to ascribe all the nation’s woes to Brexit, but the flaws go far, far deeper than that. It was only being in the EU that disguised that. Which tbf sort of ascribes all the nation’s woes to Brexit!
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I have seen inflation and high interest rates ascribed to Brexit. A cursory glance at EU Figures disproves that notion. Similarly high energy prices are nothing to do with Brexit. There was a post somewhere on BM recently that said our cutting off of EU energy arrangements was to blame. Our energy relationship with the EU remains unchanged, tho’ there are leisurely discussions about a new regime some years hence.
Similarly, the cluster fuck in N.I. has been ascribed to Brexit yet Varadkar and the EU have reportedly accepted all the main points that the UK was making i.e. Green and Red channels for UK exports to N.I., the removal of the EU commission’s right to apply to the court to amend UK regs. etc etc.
There are of course downsides to Brexit but it is important to identify them correctly in order to take the best remedial action. Contrary to the post above, there is no going back, we are stuck with it and we should plan accordingly.
Edit PS. The IMF forecast that UK will do worse than Russia this year has similarly been ascribed to Brexit but the IMF put it down to fiscal consolidation, absolutely nothing to do with Brexit. The way some media have reacted to this, you wouldn’t know that the forecast is an improvement on the previous one or that the IMF have said the consolidation policies are the correct ones.
 
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