Good news about Nissan. Absolutely terrible news about still being no closer to getting any sort of deal to EU passporting for financial services. Today’s news is like spending a grand on lottery tickets and celebrating winning a tenner.

Edited by DanH (01 Jul 2021 10.11pm)

We have left the EU? That the vote on June 23rd was honoured, albeit after a few dramas along the way?

That we have a trade deal with the EU, although with some complications.

Problem is, for both sides of the divide, that Covid has been such a huge spoiler that neither party can really claim that Brexit made a difference one way or the other.

It has really kicked everything up in the air, meaning that Brexit itself is really now just a historical event which people can use for a whole variety of purposes to suit their own agenda's in terms of claims and counter-claims.

Lets be honest, ever since June 2016, entire rafts of supposed nailed on Economic certainties such as reccessions and so on never actually panned out, at least until Covid come along.

What Remainer Retards (and I use that term strictly in terms of people who did not accept the result of 2016 as opposed to those who voted remain but acknowledged that Leave won and that it had to be acted upon) have to own is Boris Johnson ending up with the whopping majority he has. That is what you have to live with every day for the rest of your lives.

Everything is merely hyperbole.

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." - 1984 - George Orwell.

What does this mean?

I work in Canary Wharf and see police every day.

Yes, shame about the E,U passport, but the chancellor has told the city to look towards our Chinese friends for a way out, they are trusty business allies.

I voted remain and still would but firmly in the camp that the vote had to be honoured (i.e. not a ‘retard’ thankfully) but it’s far too early to tell if there will be any real longer term benefits. The vaccine rollout has shown the benefits of not being tied to a behemoth political Union and being able to act on your own and this will certainly have more benefits going forward.

Matov is right in that Covid has been a huge disrupter in the entire process. It’s almost impossible to assess the impact on trade purely down to Brexit but I work with international clients who are all bemoaning the extra admin, red tape and costs of doing business (ironically the things we were told leaving them EU would reduce).

I still think a lot of people that voted for Brexit were conned into thinking the EU was a far bigger bogeyman than it ever was or ever will be and that leaving it was some sort of magic cure to all this country’s perceived ills. It can be a success but it requires competent ministers and civil servants to make a success of it - something we are sadly lacking.

Some of the early trade deals have suggested we’re happy to have a race to the bottom in terms of standards in a desperation to get them signed and save face so I’m not particularly confident the whole thing will be worth it.

Oh. And the divide in the nation is pretty much irreversible.

Edited by DanH (01 Jul 2021 10.33pm)

Is the correct answer!10/10