On June 23, 2016 the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union with 52 percent of “Leave” votes against 48 percent for “Remain”. It was a political storm few had predicted. Ten years on, our Revisited show explores the social and political impact of the decision. How did Brexit reshape the country and has it helped improve people’s lives? What has been the impact on the economy and on sectors like farming?
The impact on the economy is worse than most remainers feared during the campaign, because few anticipated the hard Brexit that resulted.
Personally I expected something like hard Brexit, and expected a slowdown compared to remaining of about 1% per year for 10 years. And the estimate today is about 8% total decrease after 10 years compared to if UK had remained.
I am not aware of any segment of life in UK that has improved due to Brexit, and politically UK is way weaker internationally than they were as a member of EU.
The internal politics of UK have been almost absolute chaos since Brexit, because Brexit has been a political and economic disaster with no upside. And AFAIK almost everything in public services has gotten worse than it was before Brexit. Especially NHS and mostly everything relating to social services have gotten a lot worse.