Can this be a new title for those involved in industries that are doing worse due to the Brexit despite demanding it? Fishing, hauliage, farming all demanded Brexit as a way to improve their incomes. They wouldn’t listen to those REMOANERS who pointed out the obvious flaws in their logic and now they complain. This is the NEW REALITY and what YOU VOTED FOR. Sadly, you screwed everyone else as well as yourselves.
I can’t speak to fishing, but hauliers were absolutely aghast at the idea of Brexit. My experience of farmers is they were pretty much split like the rest of the country, with older semi retired ones in favour of Brexit and the younger ones very opposed.
The thing is with both the CAP and EU Fisheries policies there are legitimate criticisms to be made. The EU effectively acknowledged that when agreeing to our rebate and it has been moving consistently in the direction of improving the CAP.
As for our fishermen they have been caught with worldwide issues of over fishing, EU sustainability policies, inept if not corrupt and lazy U.K. govt policy allocating our quotas to a small number of large family businesses who then took advantage of unfettered free market trading preferences to sell to foreign entities because they saw the long term business sense of owning more quota of the areas where there domestic consumers appetites were best served and therefore offered more.
Having legitimate criticism, pointing out downsides to EU membership however is something Leave voters confused themselves with, by thinking that meant we should leave and everything would be solv-ed. No no no, it merely means that every system has pluses and minuses, but the overall trade off was massively beneficial. They thought the the EU only caused problems, but failed to take a moment just to wonder how come so many countries marveled at it, wanted to join it or wanted to emulate it. Five years ago I thought ‘well, I have rarely heard a good word said about the EU in this country for decades, but there must be
some good things about it, else it wouldn’t have come into being or lasted’. That unwillingness to look at it with an open mind, or perhaps it is more accurate to say the closed minds prevented them from being willing to even look at the EU in the first place, prevented Leavers from realising that the EU was in fact a
solution to problems.
Now they sit scratching their heads that we now have a load of previously solved problems that we need to address. And we have in charge of solving it a whole load of people who not only didn’t realise this, they didn’t have a plan
for anything, just
against something.