Why The United Kingdom Is In A Big Mess

Why is post-Brexit Britain such a mess? Rising food and energy prices, empty shelves in stores and worker shortages. But could Brexit lead to something even bigger: the breakup of the United Kingdom?
00:00 Is The United Kingdom in Trouble?
00:58 How Brexit Caused A Fuel Shortage In The UK
05:24 A War On The Poor?
08:09 What If Scotland And Northern Ireland Leave The UK?
11:23 What Happens Next?
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[@ajplus]

After the queen died, we took another look at how the UK was doing. Watch here to see how things have only gotten worse: kzbin.info/www/bejne/kKCmh3-nfZZ1aLs

[@Tridhos]

As Billy Connolly said, "anyone who listens to Boris Johnson needs to see a doctor."

[@Ealsante]

If Boris Johnson told me the sun would rise tomorrow, I would be unable to sleep all night.

[@darrenmorgan387]

Yeah probably to get their 3 jabs?

[@LilWhitePrivileged]

Brexit was great. This is because of lockdownism. Nobody thinks more Africans is what Britain needs.

[@Quebecoisegal]

@@Buckets1000 And yet, people who Johnson despises voted for him and his govt.

[@verzeda]

B... buh... but at l.. least n.. no c.. corbyn, r.. right? 😭

[@clownprinceofcrime2396]

So a country that has caused so many countries to partition is gonna be partitioned itself.

[@BingQiLing.]

It’s been in ruins since 1900s

[@benjaminbentsen6080]

The words if indiana junkie

[@sarginsonjon]

Time for Scotland to leave The UK is a Westminster controlled dinosaur A separate future better for all

[@BingQiLing.]

@@sarginsonjon scotland leaves england will have no farms england won’t let scotts leave

[@benjaminbentsen6080]

@@sarginsonjon yeah better with hughedt drug probelm in europe incopetent giverment and otjer stuff inclufing that all Banks and companies would move to england

[@viniboy9853]

I recently lost my lovely wife and being disabled myself I have found myself on benefits on Universal Credit. An organisation that is not fit for purpose. My future, along with countless others is now so bleak that I see little or no point in continuing living, now, below the national breadline not affording to pay my bills or even enough to buy decent food. The future for me is homeless, alone, cold and hungry. Many will say "so what" fair enough, but for me it's so much more, to those who do take this attitude I say.....Wait until it happens to you!

[@bevneesam7994]

So sorry you are in this place. 😔

[@rjjcms1]

I hope it doesn't come to that. But you're right,more and more people are being pushed in that direction and it's downright immoral.

[@bevneesam7994]

People that are pushed, either fight or flight. Some unrest afoot me thinks..

[@KarmicMultiverse]

For the empire where the sun never sets, its setting quite rapidly now

[@trunkschillman]

And the Chinese Sun is rising in the horizon!!

[@prajwal9544]

@@trunkschillman China and rising sun is not something Chinese like to say together

[@kimchiba4570]

@@prajwal9544 good one 👍

[@abrahamsds1277]

@@prajwal9544 LoL... a good one XD

[@josweetlove1537]

Their chickens are coming home to roost. For centuries they robbed and pillaged their wealth, now we see without the weaker nations they have zero and are worst off than those who they plundered. Justice is slow but sure.

[@ThePereubu1710]

I am in my early 60's. If you had asked me in 2015 whether I would see an independent Scotland and a reunited Ireland in my lifetime, I would have replied "almost certainly not". Now I believe that seeing a reunited Ireland is inevitable and an independent Scotland is probable before I reach the end of my natural span. Both these will be the result of years of Tory misrule and how the outcome of the 2016 referendum has been handled by the same Tory kakistocracy.

[@LeMerch]

I can see a United Ireland because Dublin has already managed to annex Northern Ireland economically and over time will bring its politics under the influence of Dublin. As for Scotland, it's harder to know. The last vote was vicious. Scotland would be better off independent, just like Ireland is. I think Scotland & Ireland would work better in some form of closer relationship - whatever that is, as its more balanced. England skews the relationship, just because of its size comparison and it's ability to pull Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland around on a shackle. England going its own way would suit its populations needs and free the other nations to decide their own destiny. I'd fear for Wales though, its quite small and relies heavily on England but I could be wrong there - they are a proud and wonderful people but I'm not sure they want to break up from the UK and its close ties with England.

[@Scriptease1]

The DUP is working the hardest for a united ireland, they just don't realize it.

[@johntooth1886]

Labour misrule. We have only just got out of jail ( The EU ) Thank god for Brexit. Pandemic hasn't helped.

[@LeMerch]

@@johntooth1886 The EU wasn't jail. The UK created the single market and the modern EU so that trade would flow freely across it which benefited the UK (5th largest economy in the world). How is that a 'cage'?

[@johntooth1886]

@@LeMerch Common Market was the healthy sensible start up. Then along came the EU and Politics. Then came unrest within the UK, our independence compromised. Thankfully along came Nigel just in time. There is work to do.

[@hamstercheng4951]

I’m from the U.K. It is corrupt beyond belief. A developer wanted to build a huge development in our neighbourhood when we are already bursting at the seams to the extent there are regular burst water mains. The local government and planning directorate rejected the application. So the developer went to the Housing Secretary and paid his party a “donation” in return for planning permission. It was a bribe, but never got held to account. Then my local borough has been through 12 years of hell to the extent nearly 60% of children are in poverty, racial divisions and systemic corruption in local government. Racism is rife too.

[@The_Moonstone321]

Developer donors

[@lotrlmao1648]

I never heard of UK having corruption cases. interesting

[@thomasaddis51]

Sounds like a normal day in Ireland lol

[@MrMarinus18]

I am from the Netherlands and while I can see a level of Schadenfraude I also worry the Dutch might be getting too smug. Most of the problems of overzealous privitization, corruption, stingy government spending, low taxes on the rich, raising cost of living and skyrocketing inequality are present here as well. We have also been ruled by a conservative party for the past 13 years and are moving in a very similar direction. We should be seeing the UK as an ominous foreshadowing of what could happen to us soon if we don't change course.

[@BOLT10108]

PAKISTANIS ARE MAKING DECISIONS. ACT NOW BEFORE YOU LOSE YOUR COUNTRY, RELIGION AND DEMOCRACY!!!

[@mikesully110]

I'm Welsh 10 years ago Welsh independence would have been laughable to me, but honestly the last Labour government in the late 90's - 2000's, and now this Tory government, have both been an utter shambles - both of them have been Dreadful. Us Celts need to try Independence can't be any worse than 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡 Westminster

[@bobbymidha3901]

Wales is a strange case. They haven't been as vocal

[@wulfgreyhame6857]

Why is the break-up of the United Kingdom automatically assumed to be a disaster? It's creation was an accident of history (like most countries). Norway, Sweden and Denmark, at various times, have been in some kind of union, at least in part. They aren't now. They didn't all die in poverty when the present borders emerged.

[@Lando-kx6so]

Propaganda

[@noodlyappendage6729]

The UK won’t break up anyway. This is something that is spurted out by those who don’t know what they’re talking about.

[@eleanorcrawford9978]

@@noodlyappendage6729 the break up of the U.K. will be a disaster, the people who want to rip it apart are Dictators and self serving. The people of Scotland deserve better than this rogue party the SNP are not good for Scotland.

[@Obamayevsky]

because the foreigners are jealous that we are superior so they are trying to destroy our country.

[@darkadrien14]

@@Obamayevsky thanks for the good laught ^^

[@princeofchetarria5375]

Honestly when I look at my country right now I don’t know whether to cry or laugh 😭 with each day it becomes more and more clear that we have been absolutely conned. People in power avoided accountability and responsibility by telling us that migrants and people on benefits were the cause of our problems, while their wealthy donors squeezed the working people of this country for all we have. Post-Brexit, absolutely nothing is better. All our existing problems are ongoing, and we have a whole bunch of new issues as well. Covid has also further exacerbated everything. It’s a shame, because we are a beautiful country and I really do think this is a great place to live. But there are so many glaring institutional problems.

[@hope4now]

Same con job here in the U.S.- scare the working class and middle class with the threat that immigrants will take jobs.

[@soldiernumberx8921]

Haha so happy about this you get what you vote for. Karma is B****

[@lesterjohnston8888]

Every imigrant wants what we have and that's the problem, why give the women the pill if the population is low, but over population is the end how can you keep feeding so many

[@tourmelion9221]

@@lesterjohnston8888 immigrants and migrants make what we have tho, look at the state of us without them, and if we get rid of all not white british we'd be screwed

[@lesterjohnston8888]

@@tourmelion9221 where in the world are you coming from with that statement, try to restate

[@Architectofawesome]

This is so complicated. Man, I hope they will get through the incoming food shortage without some conflict or civil war, things get hard to think about what's right if you are hungry :(.

[@annnee6818]

People don't even know what's right when they're fed, clearly, so hungry there's just no hope at all

[@Architectofawesome]

@@annnee6818 Shit :(.

[@DrJams]

Maybe uk should grow more of it's own food than import it

[@grandwonder5858]

Maybe some severe hunger is great for the UK so that it gets a taste of its own medicine of what it has been doing all of those centuries in joining the US to sanction and blockade all of those helpless countries to death in which the US and the UK stop any goods from entering a country that the US and the UK want to destroy by starving the people to death! May the evil bullies suffer the same fate as their victims! Maybe only then would they stop their evil ways!

[@halinaqi2194]

Most of the time, it costs less to import it. You trade money for security. This isn't a UK problem, but a capitalism one. Its only functioning as intended, driving up profits and economic growth at all costs.

[@rmr3870]

When Ireland, and Scotland, again their independence Wales will likely follow suit. England will be in massive trouble economically. The UK will most likely then heavily tax their overseas territories to whom they have given very little attention and support. The territories should also be planning their independence.

[@JustAnOrdinarySimmer]

What makes you think Scotland, NI and Wales will do see well independently? the economy will plummet. They will still have to go through a long process to join the EU.. so they will be truly independent countries from the time they leave UK to the time they join EU - just that period of time will be enough that all 3 are knocking on Englands door begging for help once again. Everything those places have is through England, so all trade, everything..they would need to start their own new trade deals. They wouldn't last 5 minutes but it would be very entertaining to see them try and fail miserably. It reminds me as a kid when you would "run away from home" - only to return shortly after, wet, dirty, hungry and weak and immediately saying "sorry I won't do it again" when the door is opened

[@LonnieHalouska]

An American, I used to think we had the biggest problem with right wing (Republican) institutionalized race hating, cutting off our noses to spite our faces. With our recent mid-term elections, I now see I was wrong. Unlike Westminster, we don't write xenophobia and color/national origin/ poor people bashing into law. I was astonished to see Westminster rush to Brexit based on a paper thin majority in a referendum on a subject in which voters were misinformed by cynical gutter politicians. In the U.S. NO constitutional change is permitted without a clear super majority. And despite a super majority of Scots who did not want to be dragged out of the EU, Westminster simply ignores them. I just think the U.K. has been plagued with incompetent and crooked government for more than a decade. The mood of the English electorate seems nasty these days. It appears to me the usefulness of the U.K. is ended and whatever transitional difficulties may arise, Scotland and Northern Ireland should leave. Let "Little England" stew in its own juices.

[@jeremygregorio7472]

It doesn't do any good to add more truck drivers if they're just going to quit because you're not paying them enough to live

[@UKgamer87]

Aren't they paid more than doctors and nurses?

[@HI-oz9ec]

They need to get paid more it’s not good. Companies have been using employees from the eu because it was cheaper and this lead to the companies saving money, which went into the greedy business owners pocket. Brexit campaign for the rich to pay a better wage to the poor.

[@4777hamza]

@@UKgamer87 higher pay ≠ better life

[@TheSebiestor]

@@UKgamer87 stick to games, mate

[@darrenmorgan387]

No its the stupid eu rules that have been put upon drivers that has completely ruined the job.

[@arctic_haze]

I am rooting for the Scottish independence and Ireland unification. The longer this shambolic government lasts, the better!

[@eleanorcrawford9978]

I am totally against independence for Scotland the SNP in 15 years have done nothing for the Scottish people. I’m thankful the union made sure Scotland had vaccines throughout the pandemic because Sturgeon wanted to be in line with the EU that would have caused more deaths in Scotland The SNP have lied about the sustainability of independence, they have destroyed Scotland’s health service since they were given autonomy over the Scottish health service. Tax money that should have been invested in Scotland was taken by the SNP and they refuse to say where it went and why they felt the right to take what belonged to the Scottish people to use as they pleased. The 20 14 Referendum resulted in Scotland saying NO in a democratic vote by the people. Others seem to have forgotten that fact it would by a much higher majority today as the SNP have shown their true co,ours self serving greedy trough feeders who care nothing of the welfare of the people of Scotland. So if there is another vote on independence the answer NO will be more resounding than the first vote we have had enough of this Dictatorial SNP who speak only for themselves not for the people of Scotland.

[@CS-xw7md]

@@eleanorcrawford9978 as an immigrant living in the UK for 12 years, half of lived in England and half in Scotland.And if you think that Scotland is better off being in the UK ,i can confirm you are a corrupt torie lover. Health care is much better in Scotland than down south. And theres no much investment in Scotland cause most of the money gets spent by the Westminster. The SNP gets a few empty "bones" from your beloved government . It's not even close to be enough to provide a faster growth. Although Scotland needs to invest more money , they will be only able to do it they break free...

[@twmsioncati3277]

Spare a thought for the Welsh, support for Welsh independence is around 40% currently.

[@liamwood3357]

@@eleanorcrawford9978 Source?

[@cathaldeveney7488]

Let’s return to Irish Re-unification. Not unification.

[@michaeljames4444]

The UK has an absurd supply system. I visited a few times and discovered that UK-made goods are often less expensive in the US than in the UK.

[@nadeemboodhun]

Video is quite biased. Britain does have its problems but the things it’s good, it’s amazing at

[@hiss9989]

It’s a shame that I can’t freely visit Scotland anymore. I love the place, and would be living and working there if they remained in the EU.

[@richardmurphy4520]

COBBLERS.

[@jokermaan1]

The fact that under the protocol which keeps NI in the Single Market and Customs Union, NI is seen quite plainly to be doing better than the rest of the UK, is something which is not only frustrating for the DUP but could be a catalyst for Irish reunification.

[@raymondhaskin9449]

Ulster folk don’t care much for mercantile promises from Dublin. Identity animates the people of Northern Ireland. They just want to preserve their culture, to waive their flag and sing their songs. Have their big band parades etc. And I say they’re just right.

[@Jeffreypennings8]

I live on the Isle of Ireland and I lived in both Ireland's. I only can tell you that United Ireland sounds easier than it actually it is. The social benefits and healthcare are actually much better in the North then the South. Even the housing market is a huge problem in the republic. Dublin is actually completely bankrupt if they have to take care of the north.

[@kurtpunchesthings2411]

@@Jeffreypennings8 no one said it would be easy it will be alot of hard work the main appeal is to work hard to Finally Unify the Island one country it will be alot of work and hard going but after 10 years things will be moving forward and our island will become more powerful then our ancestors ever could have imagined so it's worth every penny

[@imastaycool]

@@Jeffreypennings8 The same old boring argument that loyalists love to beat to their drum (pun intended) Ireland can very much afford the north and it's been widely proven by economists. Have you not done any research? Afraid to? Firstly, the island is becoming one economically speaking with trade now booming between north and south - this makes reunification much easier. The north's annual subsidy from Britain is around the 9 billion pound mark, however, not all of this would carry over into Ireland. Economists estimated it to be approximately 2 or 3 billion pounds instead and would merely result in a minimal pick-up by Irish citizens (it's short-term and manageable). Also, you're forgetting we'd be benefitting from the north's resources, too! Trade is already huge right now and also tourism, don't forget 💚 Another thing is there are already Irish companies working both side of the imaginary border. Are you forgetting that we supply your electricity 😏 Irish energy company Viridian owns electricity and gas supplier Energia, two power plants in Dublin and PowerNI in the North. Also, agriculturally, Cavan-based Lakeland Dairies is the island’s second largest dairy co-op and works both sides of the imaginary border. Resources will spill over between north and south creating an economic balance. It won't be perfect or plain sailing, but who said it would be? At the end of the day, the people of the north voted to remain in the EU. Young people want that and young people want change. Britain isn't viable anymore and its GDP is decreasing. The Scots will get independence as the movement is growing. The Union is breaking up. The Tories don't give a rats about you all. You cost too much for them and they don't get back. Public spending on services is often higher in the north than other parts of the UK. The north is only doing better now thanks to the protocol and its vote away from Brexit. Blame it all on Westminster, pal 👍

[@imastaycool]

@@raymondhaskin9449 was your comment satire? Please don't say you were serious...

[@bluefish4580]

It’s amazing how the rapidly growing independence movement in Wales slips quietly under the radar. As always, not taken seriously. But wait and see..

[@swanpride]

It's less size and more geography. Northern Ireland and Scottland both have a pretty clear border to England. Wales doesn't.

[@ixlnxs]

@@swanpride Wales didn't but now it does. Its borders were defined in 1978 and that's how they will remain.

[@WakaWaka2468]

Wales is about as relevant as Tajikistan. They're GDP is non existent

[@jillybe1873]

@@WakaWaka2468 because the English take everything. Wait till we turn off their water .

[@thepagecollective]

Well, Wales is the only part of the UK that voted with England, so not a good start, is it?

[@bobblehat6603]

"...a Brit could decide to move to sunny Spain...and a Romanian could get a job in Britain just as easily. Brexit ended that relationship...'"? 2:09 Most of my work colleagues recently came to the UK to work... and yes, some of them are Romanian. Another colleague just retired and emigrated to Spain. It was more hassle than it used to be but it's not impossible!

[@richardmurphy4520]

Theres another 40,000 of your Roma ," work colleagues," currently domiciled in UK jails ( on a revolving door policy). And according to our dirty royalist tory home office they are costing you and me £40k per annum each to keep them banged up. Just an inconvenient pro Brexit observation you understand.

[@flybobbie1449]

My sister some years ago moved to Boston, Lincs. She had friends who use to work farms, but lost to cheaper foreign labour. Food made cheap so the tied supermarkets could make maximum profit. Foreign workers on 6 month contracts were dumped and became lost, not wanting to go home or stay.

[@justmythought7658]

9:10 The Scots were told the only way to stay in the EU is to stay in the UK at the first referendum. A few years later they lost their EU membership because the Scottish pro EU vote was outvoted by the superior number of British leave voters.

[@darrenmorgan387]

Boo hoo, we left get over it. Pathetic.

[@danieltaylor4142]

Specifically the English leave vote.

[@Rekaert]

@@danieltaylor4142 Specifically the UK as a whole voted leave, as it was a UK-wide vote.

[@yashburman7640]

@@Rekaert the English population outnumbers the irish, scottish and welsh combined. So even if the rest wanted to stay in the eu, they couldn’t cause their vote would not make a difference

[@kevinchindes]

@@darrenmorgan387 people like you are the reason. Scotland will leave. You dont help any thing

[@mikerphone.]

Brexit seems to be working perfectly.

[@HI-oz9ec]

Yes now let’s wait for canzuk 🇨🇦🇦🇺🇳🇿🇬🇧. This new union is going to be much more better.

[@mikerphone.]

@@HI-oz9ec lol never going to happen but ok.

[@HI-oz9ec]

@@mikerphone. it’s true it will happen. All nations are identical when it come to culture, law and regulations, share that’s same parliament system under the Westminster and also on the world stage they alway vote the same. People in these nations have over 60% of support. Canzuk will happen. 🇨🇦🇦🇺🇳🇿🇬🇧 kzbin.info/www/bejne/bqXWmJuCgdiXjKs

[@mikerphone.]

@@HI-oz9ec There's little to no difference between that and the E.U. and they're far more likely to rejoin the E.U. before convincing all these other countries who are doing well enough to disrupt their trade and foreign alliances to jump in the sinking boat with the U.K. The people of the U.K. were displeased with the exit deal with the U.K. back when they had much more negotiating power. What makes you think they'll be happy with a deal that will surely take advantage of their current position

[@HI-oz9ec]

@@mikerphone. the EU and the UK are completely different compare to the CANZUK nation because they have different cultures and languages it’s never level. The UK has never got what it wants from the EU and now they can freely make their own trade deal across the world. Plus the UK hold the 2nd largest financial hubs in the world and they are getting more investments because they don’t have eu regulations. The EU is becoming a federal state and it should me called United States of Europe because they now want their own army because they want to enforce their laws and regulations and also put their parliament before ours. We are able to self govern ourselves and don’t need an outsider ruling us. It’s time people wake up to the EU illusion.

[@4376ED]

I saw the writing on the wall in 1965, that's why we emigrated to Canada. It was the smartest thing we ever did. Today it is worst than it ever was in the U.K. At the moment we pay in dollars what you pay in pounds, for a liter of petrol. We have not seen any big increase in our gas heating bill. Food has increased, somethings are in short supply in the super markets. We are both in our eights now, but we are not to worried about anything.

[@Sonyhamster]

Violent crime has gone up massively. Child poverty where I live in London is almost 60%. Corruption within government is rife. Racism continues to increase.

[@ajplus]

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[@christophertoledo5161]

You probably already know United Kingdom willing to collapse pretty soon like new nation Independent Scotland People's will breakup with UK Tyrants Government

[@cateye70]

@F. A. no one wants to work any where else in the world no hand out get off your arse and work like we all had to

[@Anglo_Browza]

@F. A. 🤡

[@smilli6415]

IT WAS ALWAYS A MESS , WITH UNHAPY PEOPLE WITH DEPRESSION, CRAP WEATHER, EXPENSIVE, HUGE TAXES.. JUST PAINTED IN NICE COLOURS

[@abdillahijalalkhan2128]

@Where's Walshy Your system is actually "Illegal "!

[@mystified1429]

Septic Isle

[@markhirstwood4190]

When England stands on its own it may found a new North Sea union with Norway and Denmark, once Denmark leaves the EU of course. It's hard to say if Cornwall will leave the UK as well. One point about Scotland though: most of the oil is with the Shetlands and Orkneys and they want to break away from Scotland. Those islands may want to join the new North Sea Union which would probably make more sense for everyone.

[@weissblau]

maybe the Nordic nations will not be in bed with perfidious Albion. When one knows a snake and thinks it will not be snake anymore......., England will just have to beg daughter Murica to take pity on her.

[@peterwilliamallen1063]

The Shetland and Orkney Islands want to become a British Crown dependency like the Channel Islands, Isle of Man, Gibraltar and the Falkland Islands if Scotland got independence, oops I just saw a pink elephant fly past my window with Nicko Sturgeon on its back 😁🤣 Scotland will never get independence

[@v_cpt-phasma_v689]

Cornwall will never leave, they dont want to, it is just part of England.

[@gwynwilliams4222]

North sea belongs to Scotland if they were independent

[@v_cpt-phasma_v689]

@@gwynwilliams4222 no it doesnt xd

[@gilbertfranklin1537]

Well, one thing doesn't make sense... if there is a labor shortage, why is there people on unemployment benefits?

[@cakeisyummy5755]

As an Eastern European: Do not rely on a set of People that you hate to keep your Society running. Especially if you have made it obvious to them that they can move to Germany or Spain and have a better life there.

[@barbaraedwards4802]

Who told them that? I certainly didn't!

[@LabRat6619]

Employers hover up Eastern Europeans because they were cheaper and you can treat them badly. When a British worker gets it tough at work he leaves!

[@cakeisyummy5755]

@@LabRat6619 Didn't Britain suffer an exodus of Eastern European Truck drivers?

[@cakeisyummy5755]

@Where's Walshy You've sent that reply to every single comment on this video, please, stop spamming, I BEG YOU!

[@roygillett4235]

I'm a British national and wouldn't move to Germany if you paid me ,they are not too friendly either. Scotland,Wales and Ireland are our internal problem and kindly ask other nations to keep there noses out.

[@thehumancanary131]

I left the UK 55 years ago - now living on an island in the Andaman Sea - no intention of ever going back - the quality of life is far better here.

[@thehumancanary131]

@Leroy Jenkins Alpha Try Phuket!

[@calderarecords]

I'm thinking of Moving to NK like that defector who took one glance at Capitalism & thought "Yeh I'll stick to hard labour camps where at least they feed & clothe you"

[@wokeaf1337]

@@calderarecords one defector in 70 years? more like he escaped Asylum and took the wrong direction, not that it matters anyway xD

[@fiddlecastro1453]

Yeah, Labour really did mess up the country judging from what they did in 1997. You got out while you could.

[@lodzalater8169]

55 years ago The British Empire was Huge

[@boedidley823]

The recent petrol crisis in the UK was caused only be the stock management of the new fuel-type delivery. Most petrol stations couldn't hold current Unleaded and the new Unleaded fuel, so they ran down supplies until the new supply line was delivered. It was only a problem because people started panic buying.

[@BlueShadow777]

“Gas stations”…??? This, in itself, is precisely an answer to your question!!! It’s PETROL stations…!

[@panchovilla5940]

It's time for the "imperial" brits start learning how to grow and pick up their own food (among other things)..

[@seankilburn7200]

Why such hatred towards Brits? Do you not realise that the empire and all who were in charge of it are long gone? In what way are the British people of today ‘imperial’?

[@accountreality1988]

@@seankilburn7200 he has an inferiority complex. he is an very irrational man. trying to convince him the British are not the worse thing since un-sliced bread would be like talking to a brick wall. he is too emotional to bother with.

[@polla2256]

What about the imperial Spanish, Portuguese, french and japanese. The fact you languish over history is quite telling. You have a damaged ego and need to blame something but seek peace internally to find balance or you'll be forever unhappy.

[@DanielHammersmiths1000]

@@seankilburn7200 maybe we should bring the empire back😜

[@robsonwilianwinchester9726]

And start doing work British don't want now too!!(even if is low pay) and learn don't do things before know if it will f_ck the economy.

[@GuderII]

British in British history : *Good guys British in rest of the world history : *Bloody Wanker*

[@DanteOnIt]

Imagine thinking the British were ever the good guys?

[@jonathanjohnson9611]

@@DanteOnIt There are a lot of stupid people in the world. Never underestimate their stupidity.

[@GusMcGuire]

@@DanteOnIt That's a silly, racist comment that could easily be made of any country in the world and would still add nothing to the discourse.

[@HellStr82]

One needs only to visit the "British Museum" and try to find anything british in it

[@spectrallines1695]

In America it’s difficult to find people to do manual labor at my job. The average stay time is 2 weeks. People just dont want to work manual labor even though it pays well. Late to work , call out sick etc . Previous generations work ethics was much higher.

[@MrMarinus18]

I do agree though we should also seriously wonder why this is. I think a bit part is the hyperindividualism that makes people abandon most sense of communal responsibility.

[@spectrallines1695]

@@MrMarinus18 I’m on the workers side now

[@kevinbergin2225]

Northern Ireland's leaving would be a gift to London.

[@jay23cr]

That’s what happens when you think you’re better than everybody else… Hoping to see the end of the UK and an independent Scotland and an unified Ireland pretty soon!

[@Iazzaboyce]

The UK being in the EU made the leaving the UK easier - people will not vote to leave now.

[@martinbrandom2654]

Me too. I'm English . It would be like getting rid of your waste of space children and spending your wages on yourself.They would sink without trace! Independence for England!!!

[@Lando-kx6so]

Won't happen

[@jay23cr]

@@Lando-kx6so Nothing lasts forever, and that includes the dis-United Kingdom of doom…

[@Iazzaboyce]

@@jay23cr When others hope you fail - it's because they resent your success.

[@Directlite664]

I like how media use soothing voice and logic when it comes to problems in the west and dangerous wild noices and panic attacks when addressing eastern problems. Why is that?

[@aliturk6692]

Good old xenophobia to help their politics

[@gale_poot]

I swear -

[@prammar1951]

@@jlhabitan50 Dubai???? Sure about that buddy?

[@jlhabitan50]

@@prammar1951 Pretty much. And it depends on the topic itself. Are we talking about an armed conflict? Political instability? Migration? Sectarian violence? Election exercises? Insurrectionists storming a legislative building?

[@jillybe1873]

I dunno cos that bloke with the calm voice is of punjab origin, maybe you should remind him to sound more hysterical.

[@juliettedemaso7588]

These “western” empires and monarchies, including the US, have such oblivious vulgar audacity to have built their extraordinary wealth and security on the backs of so many of the regions they wall-out and condescend to. It’s quite too bad if you don’t want to share, (aka: pay the overdue debt) Simply playacting as the most civilized, virtuous and advanced people would already be embarrassingly comedically absurd, but carrying on as such while the trophies of the very spoils of this colonizing extraction are brazenly on display in museums, academia, and manors all across these countries; the evidence openly showcased in an act of such extraordinary blithe pompous ghoulish on-the-nose geopolitical gaslighting. This is a matter of basic cosmic justice. We love nothing more than leveraging unpaid debts, with great heaping doses of condescension, so this issue should be quite easy for any Westerner to understand. Mmph.

[@makeitcount2985]

The current government is not doing a good job, wages are too low, the country has a non existant manufacturing industry....

[@eltonbritt1502]

From an "empire where the sun never sets" to a tiny little island in western Europe.. The union will inevitably break. It's just a matter of time.🙂

[@eddiecheang1513]

Well,. the UK can still look up to Uncle Sam for help.

[@peetfourie5193]

@@eddiecheang1513 Uncle Sam will also come to an end , give time.

[@francocanuck9435]

@@eddiecheang1513 You better forget that idea, they got their owns problems, i am pretty sure they do not give a fart about the UK problems

[@vforwombat9915]

@@eddiecheang1513 "Well,. the UK can still look up to Uncle Sam for help." your call is important to us. please stay on the line. we'll answer as soon as we settled a small problem we're having with fascism and the end of democracy.

[@SamSam-mv6gf]

They divided many nations and many countries. All the border problems in the world is because of UK. I hope UK will break up soon and have a taste of their own medicine.

[@CortexNewsService]

This phrase comes to mind. "Be careful what you wish for. You just might get it. "

[@AndrewJones-wp4ot]

EU officials come round to your house and tell you who you can trade with, what you can buy and where from. They then charge you an extortionate amount per week for this, and then give you some back. But you have to spend it on what they say. Would you allow a random to come into your house and tell you this. Of course not. Winston Churchill said no to this after the war, but we went back to the EU for fear of missing out. Then reality bites and the main people screaming bloody murder where businesses because of financial concerns and those who were caught in the visa crossfire. There is nothing wrong with freedom of movement..... unless there are terrorists, human traffickers, underworld gangs etc, etc, coming in to wreak havoc on a civilised society. My partner a nurse regularly treated an EU woman for a medical condition that is very expensive. The woman does not live in the UK but used an address a friend lived in joined a doctor surgery and say no more. She is rich and can travel to the UK and exploit the NHS to get her treatment. My son worked with another EU worker. He expected to get a state pension here. After four years here, he found out you have to work 25 to get it and left. I am not biased because the world has so many wonderful well intentioned people in it, but it is also full of rotten eggs. At least now, we get to decide who comes and for what reason. We grow tomatoes in the UK but EU state we have to sell them abroad and buy Spanish tomatoes instead. Yes... lets move this product hundreds of miles both ways in the name of trade. Forget that it is sprayed with toxic chemicals so it lasts in transit, only to reach your fridge and go off in a day or so. Forget the carbon footprint in the name of commerce, food waste and what those chemicals are doing to your DNA. Anyone remember straight bananas and square watermelons put forth as an EU necessity to ship more produce around the globe? That is the genius we were dealing with. Do you notice new builds are crammed together, with people living on top of each other. Gardens are smaller and smaller. Soon no-one will be able to grow crops, and dictate the health of our foods except Corporations, as if they do not already. Then there's Macron wanting to start a new EU state to break away from Nato. Because EU will be stronger together away from everyone else. If it goes nuclear no-one escapes, so why have an EU state. Who in western society is actually going to start a global offensive? My words will most likely be wasted here, but I feel better for it. As for the OP. Of course Brexit is to blame for Covid who else... oh and global inflation. Brexit also caused fuel hikes as well. Brexit is also to blame for lack of wheat and sunflower oil not coming out of Ukraine. Unfortunately too many people believe they are reporters, but 99.9% of them are biased by their own perspective. But one thing I agree with, lets split, because it does not matter if it is the Welsh assembly, Holyrood, or the house of not so commons people, politician's are self-centred, and then at least the Scots, Welsh and Irish can moan about how their government are really just as useless. God save the Queen!

[@loowyatt6463]

Funny thing is neither Scotland nor northern Ireland could afford to be independent. Only recently scotland asked UK parliament for more money as they had a black hole in the budget

[@artconsciousness]

Once I quit a job before I got another one. This left me in financial difficulties. My grandfather said; "When you make your own bed you must then lie on it" It was a lesson I never forgot. Strange Govt's don't appear to know such lessons. Hmm.

[@UdumbaraMusic]

I feel it's more of a "They came round, shat in my bed and then forced me to lie in it" situation.

[@Tarzenz]

We did and someone tried to steal the pillows telling us it was their bed. EU not going to well, is it.

[@artconsciousness]

@shane long It is more like; hmm how many more times do we need see incompetent politicians making poor decisions before we begin voting better people in positions of power?

[@kal77uk]

Ukraine learnt its lesson...lie in bed with the EU then get toasted. Fleeing like cockroaches.

[@thornil2231]

Brexit, the best thing that ever happened to the EU.

[@carpediem19999]

see thats good you can see the benefits of the eu leaving the uk behind! thats good more people should see from your point of view and there would be less people looking at the brexit as a bad thing! i'm glad the eu is doing good! the uk is doing fine too! seems we didn't need eachother after all! and were all still alive :)

[@accountreality1988]

@@carpediem19999 and we all live happily ever after.

[@freyjasvansdottir9904]

I live in the EU and I really miss buying goods from the UK, Brexit has been a big hassle for me

[@thornil2231]

@@freyjasvansdottir9904 what is there to buy from there?

[@carpediem19999]

​@@freyjasvansdottir9904 its till possible though! i guess you were buying british products? thanks for supporting the british industries! :) bought something from italy recently no issue was a bit slow but it arrived! it was italian engine part so couldn't shop elsewhere but it i got desperate i would go to china i rarely buy from europe! even before brexit! i try to buy british.

[@mikeedwards1096]

What is correct is that Britain relied on low paid workers. But that also meant the living wage dropped for Brits in low wages. What is misleading is that transport was a worldwide issue. Shelves were empty in EU stores too. Fuel shortages also the same in EU too. But Remainers don't want to know.

[@henrysevern]

In the reign of Henry VII 1490’s England and Scotland were independent countries, they could easily be independent countries again. However with the invasion of Ukraine the situation is moved again, the Eastern Europeans are asking else where in Europe for help and who has stepped up the assistance. Not Germany, France or Ireland, but Britain. The correspondent also neglected to say that inflation, high fuel, food and commodity prices have affected numerous other county’s well.

[@michaelhughes9553]

This is what happens when racism runs politics. Everyone knew this was going to happen but the right needed brexit. Best of luck UK…

[@desertdetroiter428]

Yep. Spot on.

[@rodneyparker5313]

Best answer. It was just that simple. The uninformed, ignorant populace didn't have the intellectual capacity to extrapolate the consequences as to how their economy is structured. Too bad.

[@darrenmorgan387]

You are extremely dumb, and it would be a waste of time for me to try and correct that by explaining, and I don't care what ur skin colour is.

[@darrenmorgan387]

@@desertdetroiter428 another idiot comment.

[@darrenmorgan387]

@@rodneyparker5313 Rodney you are a fool, and the colour of ur skin has nothing to do with it.

[@adrianwhyatt1425]

Left out Gibraltar, which had the highest vote to Remain, at 93%, and has now joined Schengen. Likely to end up with a Northern Ireland-UK-Irish Republic style agreement with Spain, ironically.

[@shiangchen1]

It's not just the UK, same thing in the US and I'm assuming similar issues in rest of Europe (to a lesser extent). Covid + war is a global issue.

[@rjjcms1]

Perhaps to a greater extent in some European countries,given that they have a much greater dependency on Russian energy supplies.

[@jonscholes8721]

At the same time, everyother country in the world is suffering exactly the same thing, are they all blaming brexit ? 🤣

[@sebastianrebiere9017]

No, but it certainly didn't help the UK.

[@chadatchison145]

The UK is well on it's way to becoming the US. :(

[@Lando-kx6so]

That would never happen. The day the NHS disappears is the day the UK government gets overthrown

[@dylanhunt4303]

I don't think they want us.

[@smiller2114]

@@Lando-kx6so one can hope, however the pharmaceutical companies have too much power. The peasants don't matter to them.

[@HI-oz9ec]

@@Lando-kx6so they need to save the nhs they need to make sure that people who want to get surgery for their own benefits have to pay for these buttocks and nose job for their appearances. The NHS can offer the basic care that’s needed but it can’t afford to let people take advantage over its system and get implanted for their own look.

[@grmpEqweer]

Don't become us.🇺🇲 We're going full dystopia over here.

[@twmsioncati3277]

Why not mention Wales? Our support for Welsh independence is around 40%. Personally I can't wait to get independence from the UK.

[@seankilburn7200]

Well I wouldn’t hold your breath. It will never happen and I for one am glad

[@imastaycool]

@@seankilburn7200 can you hold your breath... and keep holding and holding, please.

[@kurtpunchesthings2411]

40% that High ? Damn

[@gwynwilliams4222]

Don't forget 5 billion pounds of water Wales holds that England need. Welsh independence is going to happen. O yes 600 thousand English people live in Wales and 550 thousand are on benefits fact! Welsh independence and England has to find homes for half a million people

[@cyclonebuster9578]

@@seankilburn7200 😂😎 Absolutely right bro, brits hold your breath. Welsh independence will be a thing soon.

[@jhalmiss3154]

Europeans don't come to UK to work for low salary, they are paid very well. Where are the british workers? Why they lack skills and motivation to work? Low paid british workers should get help with subsidised place to live and also with travelling fares to work, and motivate them to work and make them learn all the skills to work. If a country depends so much on immigrants to survive its not good news.

[@davewaters9203]

Thats why I left and immigrated to Canada. Many years ago .. the best move I ever made

[@paulgearing3018]

Like wise i went South to Australia in 1979 ,when Thatcher came to power Any working class voter reading the R wing lies in a Murdoch publication and votes the Tories in Deserves all they get. Apathy is their enemy but are too dumb to see it

[@richardmurphy4520]

I left Toronto aged 7yrs, wished I could afford to return, but I,m too old now.

[@davidatkins3498]

Well done brexiters, well done. 👏

[@Cjnw]

fVck Brexit!

[@harold4506]

The EU Nazi project is to blame. Sovereignty grabbing dictatorship.

[@eddienascimento2816]

THANKS

[@jackwhitehead5233]

😂😂😂

[@carpediem19999]

thank the british governement for lying if you don't agree with brexit, boris i think is your man! remember his slogan, get brexit done or was it farage lol

[@mackone8035]

Britain's been going down hill ever since the Spice Girls broke up.

[@saifalam2030]

Harry Potter, Game of Throne, Downtown abbey, came out after spice girl broke up.

[@deadinthebed963]

game of thrones is shite

[@AuditingBritain]

Britain will always be Great

[@MrCODEmaster999]

I am beginning to despise hearing about this bad news that appears to be happening on this globe.

[@MrJoysiq]

they have no one to blame but themselves lol

[@graemewight2975]

The staff shortage is the mandates and a failure to invest in the British people properly.

[@michealjones9863]

Yes. Why invest in the youth and train them up when u can get ready made workers elsewhere. You can blame the thatcher Reagan era for that. Another Tory shit show.

[@DizGuys]

Very true. The people have been treated with distain, personally, professionally and economically for many years now. I lived in Korea for a few years and the quality of life and general wellbeing there makes the UK look like a dreadful, third world, underdeveloped backwater. It's a MASSIVE difference.

[@glenmorejohn8494]

it like that in all the 5 i country USA Canada UK Australia and New Zealand low wage labour

[@YogiDesforges]

Do you mean investing in education? Because i'd like to point out that this not gonna bring you more truck drivers or agriculture workers.

[@michealjones9863]

@@YogiDesforges no it won’t , but I would argue that during the education period of young people’s lives instead of telling them they can be whatever they want to be and reach for the stars we can prepare them for real life !! Maybe then truck driving , plumbing ,cleaning or whatever won’t be beneath them . In other words “get a trade and sing all ya want after that” that should be the teachers mantra!

[@spex357]

The deceit and the obfuscation of the truth around what joining meant, was never revealed. The government papers released some years later showed the disregard they had for the population, and the plan to obscure the truth about joining, but the media quickly ignored it. It was the first time we had seen the media was controlled by the government, and any voice telling the truth about the plan wasn't allowed, and would literally be shouted over so you couldn't hear it. Our Teacher was shocked and couldn't believe what he was seeing on our hired TV, and because of the deceit and lies considered the plan to be treason. He's lying Sir, you can see it on his face. I have to agree he said, blatantly lying in the house. Every Friday for over a year we poured over that weeks lies, and there was never a quite week. Joining was to line their pockets, and they couldn't wait to see our faces when we realised the enormity of what they had done. According to my left wing teachers in 1973 the EU was a stepping stone to Babylon and a one world government. In reality the low paid Agriculture workers got swapped for cheaper migrants. The low paid construction workers got swapped for 4 million cheaper migrants to increase profits for those concerned, the low paid hair dressers got swapped for lower paid migrants along with many more. Who's the winner in all this. It's not the low paid anywhere in Europe, as they have all been exploited in one way or another. I'm glad we voted out, but I wish the public had wised up the morning after Heath had put pen to paper, and left before the EU had infiltrated everything, and our gold stocks had been reduced in readiness for joining and never coming back. Just about to leave school our teachers didn't look on it as a good move for anyone. Some years later the Lords reported on the effects of the mass wage reduction and it had harmed the GDP so they wondered why the government had done it. Some time later they realised Priti Patels migration plans could be used to reduce the wages of the middle class, then we would hear some noise. The workers couldn't understand how the Labour party had conspired to reduce their wages, so Labour lost the next election , and it will take a while to forget. Currently we are supplying arms to the Ukraine from stockpiles we had. Years worth of our taxes have gone up in smoke and they will need restocking immediately from more of our taxes. We are financing the USA's proxy war with Russia whilst being broke, yet nobody asked us if we wanted to just like in 1973. If the truth had been known about joining, they knew if asked the answer would definitely be no, so deceit was decided on. There hasn't been a year since without a list of deceits spouted by our leaders, no matter which side they are from. It's all rotten.

[@JohnErickStaCruz]

It's like they shot their own foot with their policies and racial discrimination. After all, they are not willing to do the work that the foreigners in their country are actually doing for them. I hope this becomes an eye opener to other people who are against foreigners in their country.

[@MCMXC.a.D.]

I want Scotland and norther Ireland to be separate countries

[@HI-oz9ec]

And do what join the EU. The EU is collapsing because the nations can’t control their own laws and regulations. The EU puts their own parliament before any of the members nations, do we want to be controlled by an outsider or have control over our own laws and parliament. All four countries in the UK are able to self govern ourselves. They don’t need the EU. Plus 60% of Scotland trade is just with England, would they break apart from the UK and lose everything.

[@ScottishRoss27]

@@HI-oz9ec Whats UK got to offer?

[@HI-oz9ec]

@imad uddin first of all Brexit has nothing do to with that there are plenty of food on the shelf so something has worked here. You don’t have to be in the EU to trade with them. The US is our largest trading partner and we don’t have a trade deal. Look into canzuk you idiot. kzbin.info/www/bejne/iXnKnaKVg5yDlbs

[@amanb8698]

Independent Scotland and a United Ireland.

[@HI-oz9ec]

@@amanb8698 The Irish have fought for their independence from Britain but they only gave that power back to and outsider again. The Irish people are becoming very eurosceptic now and realising the EU dictatorship. Irexit party in Ireland is gaining support and they also want to leave the EU.

[@CompelledFungus]

Slight correction, the Troubles wasn't about reunification with the Republic. It was about equal rights for the Catholics living in Northern Ireland.

[@teenageriot123456]

you could argue it was both

[@Iazzaboyce]

What 'right' was different based on religion?

[@CompelledFungus]

@@teenageriot123456 no, you can't. Simply because it wasn't.

[@CompelledFungus]

@@Iazzaboyce basic human rights.

[@Iazzaboyce]

@@CompelledFungus Which right was different based on religion? I seem to remember everyone being entitled to free education, state benefits, free healthcare, state pension - I don't remember anything being different because of religion.

[@deepan5487]

if you say that there is labour shortage that means all in UK are employed or people who do not have jobs do not want to work for low paying jobs and instead be jobless.

[@ZeZnn]

Is it just me or did none of this happen in my area of the UK or am I just delusional?

[@adityashukla7849]

I don't belong to UK so maybe I'm not that much aware about it but I love how people are blaming Boris Johnson for this as if a large part of UK didn't wanted Brexit.

[@genocidejoe]

They voted for this twice

[@son_of_stan]

No england wanted brexit and now trump is gone there isn't going to be a trade deal for the conservatives 🤣.

[@carpediem19999]

Boris Is just the puppet to deliver the news! Theres people pulling his strings like every countries leaders there just the Scape goats!

[@Tridhos]

Then you might understand that without Boris it is doubtful that Leave would have had a majority. Had you watched the news conference the day after the result was announced it was clear that Boris neither intended or expected to win have expressed many times in the past how beneficial being a member of the EU was to the British economy. As for a large part of the UK, 17 million can hardly be described as a large part. People are now beginning to realize the lies that were told in order to get that result.

[@superbananas7792]

I mean if you actually look at the vote count it was a barely a majority, probably due a recount or another vote tbh. It was pretty much half and half.

[@benobistheatre6366]

I'm a citizen of England and my family voted to remain because we like the privileges of being in the EU with the single market and immigration. We saw through the lies of politicians promoting this dumb nationalist movement. Sadly, the government couldn't keep their promise of us being better off. It saddens me to see the breakup and disaster of the UK. Though COVID is the other issue with the shortages. Fortunately, the disaster hasn't affected us too much. I'd like to one move to see my friends in Scotland if I'll be able to afford it.

[@henrylo6773]

You dont live in the right cities to know if brexit is the right decision. A lot of major metropolitans are riddled with crime and muslim extremism. kzbin.info/www/bejne/jImxhomCapufp6c I sympathize for those people who wanted to keep their free movement but had to give it up because of the gang rapes back in 2013-2015

[@tancosta1286]

First they make us swallow the influx of the fake refuges with wars that they create and when its to much to clean up they come up with Brexit, it was manly manufactured by USA / England and Germany , the rest just had to get along like obidient dogs , we reaaly need stronger leaders that are not corrupt and start to think about their people and country first

[@JamesWilliams-mq8bo]

The trouble with the UK is the useless idiots running it, our dumb bosses like Boris and Starmer. if we had politicians who had respect for the British people, it would be a different country.

[@oldskoolmusicnostalgia]

The way things are shaping up this decade, in a few years' time you'll be looking back fondly on Covid. Because it will be ultimately insignificant compared to the even bigger issues coming to the fore.

[@anushkasekkingstad1300]

You need to check your passport, if you have one. You are a citizen of the UK, not of England

[@banagan4604]

What an own goal! At least it will result inn a united Ireland and most likely an independent Scotland.

[@sarahthomas2922]

I don't think the problem is leaving per se. Planning and leaving only when ready (so that the necessary laws, policies and trade-agreements have been negotiated to a satisfactory point) is what should have happened, and that clearly didn't happen. To say this mess happened because leaving the EU was a wrong move is a very simplistic and naive characterisation.

[@arasakaa]

Does not matter how you put it, Leaving the EU was a major mistake, Lying to the Scottish was a bigger mistake. This is all leading to the breakup of the union, The UK is dying a very slow death, England will become a very average country like Poland or Estonia.

[@DM-it1qf]

When my parents went on holiday to several countries across western Europe a few years ago, a couple of people in their tourist group who they became friends with were two young women in their late twenties from Dublin. According to them, Dublin has become the “city of cranes” due to companies which have their offices in London relocating to Dublin to remain located in the EU but in close proximity to London if need be. It’s good for the Republic of Ireland to receive an economic boost of course, but it goes to show how the UK have shot themselves in the foot.

[@1chish]

So explain why London is still the biggest trading, finance and insurance centre in Europe and has added 5,000 new jobs since 2016? Dublin attracted businesses as HQs because of low Corporation Tax for trading in Euro denominated paper. Well that bubble has been burst by the EU who instructed the Irish Government to increase tax rates. Ooops! And now the Irish have been landed with a 16 bn Euro debt courtesy of the EU and are now (after the UK left) having to pay contributions to be in the EU. See how long that lasts.

[@williampatrickfagan7590]

@1chish First 5000 investment managers and allied staff have moved to Dublin along with 200 billion pounds. Ireland is the 4th highest contributor to the European Union per person and has no problem with that. Ireland has agreed to join an OECD accord to have a minium corporation tax rate of 15% along with 134 other countries Since Brexshit the economy of Ireland has blossomed with Irish food producers supplying European shops as well as British shops with Irish food and commodities. As am aside, 1/3 of all milk produced in N Ireland comes south of the border for processing.ThT is one of the reasons why Ulster farmers defied the D U P and voted remain. Wait till May elections results are in ans see how Unionist support for Brexshit is reflected in D U P votes.

[@1chish]

@@williampatrickfagan7590 I will ignore the childish 'Brexshit' as it says more about you than I ever could. there are now more people working in the City than before tyhe Pandemic (and therefore before we left the EU). You seem unable to comprehend that on leaving certain Euro trading had to be conducted in Euros and in the EU/. Therefore some cash was moved that was already in Euros and some jobe moved. It is not 5,000 to Dublin. But do please give me the source for that. You then quote '£200 billion' like its a big hole has been created. You have absolutely NO idea just how big a trading market the City is. London accounts for 43 per cent of the turnover in the $6.6tn-a-day foreign exchange market (so $2.8 Trn a DAY) and half of the daily $6.5tn (so $3.25 Trn a DAY) traded in interest rate derivatives. Brexit has not dented the UK capital’s dominance in these markets. Who says that? ig.ft.com/mapping-london-financial-centre/ I am pleased Ireland and the EU is doing well because the UK will do well trading with them. Which is why I am bemused as to why you people wish us harm. You don't live here so what it to you? Jog on and STFU

[@williampatrickfagan7590]

@1chish The 5,000 jobs o got from papers. The 200, billion is , I agree not a huge amount in the city of London. But it is a big amount in the city of Dublin. Time will tell if UK benefits from leaving. But from what I see now, Brecshit is not going well for GB

[@1chish]

@@williampatrickfagan7590 Last point first: What you see is the EU and UK emerging from a 2 year global pandemic that destroyed the global economy and created huge issues for the deep sea shipping industry that is having serious effects on manufacturing. Like car parts. The UK is emerging in better shape than the EU in GDP terms and UK GDP is now some points bigger than pre COVID. No doubt other countries are as well but you pointed the finger at the UK. And that £200 Bn (if it is that) was held in Euros anyway so moving it is not a cash loss to anyone let alone a cash benefit to Dublin. As the UK owners still own it. Just in a different bank account. To put it into context: Turnover in London on just TWO trades is some $6 Trn a DAY. Which is £4.5 Trn a DAY. So that £200 Bn one off move = 4.4% of one day's trading. In annual terms it is a spec of dust. You sort of forgot that 2 year pandemic and blamed a 1 year old Brexit .... ffs! Trained economists cannot split out the effects of one versus the other but you can? 🤭 So you have no sources for your 5,000 figure just 'the papers'? Well thats OK then ... As for the UK 'benefitting from leaving' you really do not get it do you? This was not about getting one over on the EU, or making shedloads of cash it was about restoring our sovereignty and bringing policy and decision making back to our Parliament. We had had enough of the EU dictating to us on every policy, making 49% of our laws and Directives and ignoring its 2nd largest contributor like we were Malta when we had concerns. As happened in 2015 when the EU gave Cameron ( a staunch Remainer) the big middle finger. We were proven right with how shabbily Tusk, Barnier & Co treated Theresa May (another staunch Remainer) in all the discussions.

[@zollen123]

Who would have thought brexit made England a less valuable partner and now Scotland and Ireland want to leave England. This is a self-inflected wound.

[@henrylo6773]

No, you just think the grass is greener on the other side. Remember this? kzbin.info/www/bejne/jImxhomCapufp6c . Yea brexit needed to happen. These are quite literally extremists.

[@uthman83]

We should be coming together not separating in this day and age to help each other to get through this life in peace.

[@carolinecollett956]

This country is overpopulated especially for a island . The number of cars registered on our jam packed roads is chaos

[@minoarno7415]

The UK: we used to be a big and mighty Empire Italy and HRE: First time?

[@noisefromthevoid7299]

Germany: no matter what we do, we stay great, even after two world wars, we are still among the greatest economies on earth.

[@WakaWaka2468]

@@noisefromthevoid7299 I'm consistently amazed at Germany and how they always bounce back. Its incredible, they're truly the smartest people.

[@noisefromthevoid7299]

@@reecekennedy8528 I am German

[@salah777]

@@noisefromthevoid7299 I agree you Germans are the greatest

[@noisefromthevoid7299]

@@salah777 Not at all, but they do pretty well, handling tough times.

[@tobbitwangerscotland]

Scotland does not run a deficit, it cannot run a deficit as it cannot borrow. Scotland also is not a region! Its a country that's in a union, Scotland has a deficit within the UK. Out with the UK it runs a massive surplus.

[@ciaranstaunton]

I agree with you, but the standing in which the UKG holds the Scottish Government and Parliament are surely downgraded. I can't understand why Scotland didn't get some kind of half-in, half out arrangement like NI.

[@paulfulton7968]

Exactly all all the 62 + countries who left the UK had a deficit until they left the UK

[@paulfulton7968]

@@ciaranstaunton our FM asked for the same deal as Ireland but was more or less told to f..k off

[@888ssss]

it can borrow unbacked currency from the bank of scotland, and it currency has borrowed over 1.2 trillion of unbacked currency. madness.

[@rhob5730]

Same for Cymru. Fiscal independence is vital for much overdue infrastructure investment, which will never come from Westminster.

[@MYInteriorArchitect]

اللَّهُمَّ ألِّفْ بَيْنَ قُلُوبِنَا ، وَأَصْلِحْ ذَاتَ بَيْنِـنَا ، وَاهْدِنَا سُبُلَ السَّلامِ ، وَنَجِّنَا مِنَ الظُّلُمَاتِ إِلَى النُّورِ ، وَجَنِّبْنَا الفَوَاحِشَ مَا ظَهَرَ مِنْهَا وَمَا بَطَنَ ، وَبَارِكْ لَنَا فِي أَسْمَاعِـنَا ، وَأَبْصَارِنَا ، وَقُلُوبِنَا ، وَأَزْوَاجِـنَا ، وَذُرِّيَّاتِنَا ، وَتُبْ عَلَيْنَا إِنَّكَ أَنْتَ التَّوَّابُ الرَّحِيمُ ، وَاجْعَلْنَا شَاكِرِينَ لِنِعَمِكَ مُثْنِينَ بِهَا عَلَيْكَ قَابِلِينَ لَهَا وَأَتْمِمْهَا عَلَيْنَا

[@The_Moonstone321]

If an employer can't pay a decent wage, they are in no place to be employing people.

[@richardmurphy4520]

To hell with working in any of the royal palaces in UK then.

[@christiaanmaekelberg628]

I was always a great admirer of the UK and his democracy. The way they had their common sense. I was really shocked when the UK choose for Brexit. But How a big part of tabloids was criticizing the EU like Nazi's and undemocratic was and is still unacceptable for the most EU citizen.

[@guitaraflamenco]

Remember barely 50 % vote for brexit in a campaign filled with lies.

[@marcinzadora2050]

So you going to be even more shocked,when mankind realizes,that this "democracy"was nothing but double state, GB UK,where UK is an Empire,using military of GB ,religious extremism, totalitarian regime,to eliminate the competition,cause misery,grab the assets,and locate it in banking system,created for that.

[@thepagecollective]

I remain surprised that no one lays this at the foot of Cameron. What fool puts such a question to an up or down vote? Two thirds is standard. Instead just enough yobbos stumbled out the pub to show London and here we are.

[@aerialdarkguy]

Eh they have a lot of undemocratic tendencies. It's still illegal in the UK to use film from parliament for comedic/satire purposes. They're also going all in on banning encryption. And wait til you see some of their atrocities during the troubles with Thatcher's death squads.

[@thepagecollective]

@@aerialdarkguy What I find creepy is how the UK is jam packed with security cameras. It's no surprise any more that Orwell was English

[@c2ashman]

I hope the EU will no let Britain back in....for at least a century.

[@markmeadows3485]

R Smith that would suit us fine but there won't be a EU in 3 yes let alone100.

[@ziaglos]

@@markmeadows3485 Well said Mark. 💯👏 Russia is coming to kiss EU's ar$e.... 😂😂😂

[@ishumaeruharaorda217]

The EU will disintegrate long before then

[@benjaminbentsen6080]

EU is fraud made by the elites

[@surronzak8154]

@@benjaminbentsen6080 Good you are out of this scam than lol

[@gordonclark1711]

Politicians run the country. The state of the country is solely down to the way it been run and the people running it. I feel if the same effort had been put into running the country as the effort put into people improving their lot it would be a much better place.

[@Hamromerochannel]

The freedom of movement strangely only worked one way street which only UK SEEMED TO STRUGGLE MORE THAN OTHER EU COUNTRY.

[@ciaranstaunton]

In Northern Ireland the largest Unionist party - the DUP took the opportunity to campaign for Brexit in order to weaken the Good Friday Agreement, and throw its provisions into doubt and make a hard border with the rest of the island. It backfired on them of course, despite warnings, when the UKG could not reconcile the GFA with a hard border, and so the solution, a Northern Ireland protocol is a compromise in relation to trading and customs arrangements. The trouble is the DUP troublemakers have to regard this as a political defeat, and have to accept that with fewer than 40% of people in NI supporting Brexit, and fewer than 20% supporting them electorally that they can throw their weight around undemocratically

[@patricklee6206]

What a load of old waffle .For a start the brexit was not voted for by the DUP but by the UK population. Secondly the only parties that were pressing for for a hard border on the island of Ireland were the EU and ROI and it was that which endangered the GFA.

[@PeterPete]

​@@patricklee6206 Why would the EU and ROI press for a hard border when it is out of their jurisdiction to suggest that? You seem to be passing the 'blame' on others whereas the only groups I could see wanting a hard border on the island of Ireland are the Unionists in Northern Ireland. The majority of people living in NI voted to remain in EU, that is common knowledge and that is something you should acknowledge. The GFA allows for NO hard border on the island of Ireland as the original OP points out and the NIP was a solution to that which the UKG agreed to. The UKG represents the Province of Northern Ireland so the Northern Irish Assembly should accept the NIP. The break up of the Union is clearly a possibility because the UK is in one huge mess.

[@patricklee6206]

@@PeterPete Now let me see! Oh I know! Under the guise of protecting the single market but mainly to retain some sort of influence over the UK and have a bargaining tool the EU. To achieve a United Ireland which the ROI still want by the back door, since as part of the GFA they gave a up any constitutional rights to the 6 counties. There was no real need for a hard border since an enhancement of the existing excise ,vat and currency border electronically and remotely could have been achieved. Something the EU and by association the ROI roundly discounted. The UK and DUP by association do not want a hard Border.

[@edgardebruin8398]

D.U.P. don't understand politics

[@fiddlecastro1453]

Reminds me of when the EU threatened to invoke article 16 during a pandemic.. oh wait the europhiles don't care about that. Reminds me of when the EU forced the Irish to vote twice on the Lisbon treaty because the big bad Irish dared to vote against it! Oh wait. The EU bootlickers don't care about that.

[@peepshow090]

The U.K. was finished the day the referendum result was in. I have dual nationality as do m children and they will be going to be able to go to where they want

[@quippy8402]

With a 20% poverty rate in UK, the PM candidates are still too busy taunting other countries, as if talking about another country will solve the higher priority problems in UK.

[@metiupapluch]

For curious people, the guy at 0:20 left to Boris Johnson is Maroš Ševčovič - Vicepresident of european comision and candidate to be president of Slovakia. He was candidating in 2019, where he finished at second place.

[@watershed8685]

There was a headline in a British tabloid recently, “they [Europeans] miss our money”. I snorted at that, but I can say that Europeans do miss British culture, heritage, their quality military and alliances. It’s like spouses who quarreled over petty things and decided to break up. But like it often happens in real life, here one of the spouses keeps asking “is there a way we can fix this?” The other one is still confused on what she wants. Europeans, in their majority, won’t rub Brexit in your faces. Most of them will welcome you with open arms if you decide to come back.

[@touriagasmi3525]

Not true , Europeans are happy you are not part of it, no one wants you but you actually need other countries to survive

[@abdillahijalalkhan2128]

If UK ever Debrexits, and want's back into the EU she will have to start at the back of QUEUE!

[@bretagnejean2410]

Actuaĺly in france we dont care about england. French economy win a lot in fact.

[@southamptonfan3460]

No one really cared about Great Britain . I will be honest with you . Except for your football league , we love that please don’t exit the champions league now !

[@prof.nakakata6992]

Welcoming UK back !??! Like fk.. EU is finally moving, thanks to Brexit.. It's incredible how you people really believe in the "British exceptionalism".. you're full of s++t..

[@dod642]

You state that NI and Scotland ran a fiscal deficit in 2019. You didn't mention England and Wales also ran a fiscal deficit in that year. Scotland has again achieved a budget surplus in 2021. It does this because it cannot borrow money. It has to operate within the budget allocated by Westminster so any deficit is allocated to Scotland by Westminster whether Scotland is responsible for it or not.

[@mcr2356]

Scottish defict is significantly the highest in the uk, and one of the highest in Europe. Yes it could raise more if independent but there are genuine questions about how it would keep it's finances if it becomes a sovereign country

[@TheHead9999]

Scotland is a kept community.

[@ScottishRoss27]

In 2019, according to the UK governments own ONS regional deficits NorthWest Englands deficit was £20,2 billion Scotlands within the UK was £13,4 billion = 34% lower. On independence Scotland will be owed its 8,2% population share of the UKs international currency reserves. UK Official holdings of international reserves in August 2021 release by HM Treasury. UK total £149 billion 8,2% = £12,2 billion

[@ScottishRoss27]

@@mcr2356 In 2019 Scotland had a trade surplus in goods exported £33,6 billion worth and imported £23,6 billion worth = surplus of £10 billion How can we have a surplus and a deficit? Source is UK governments own regional trade in goods stats quarter 4 2019

[@scottyfive4319]

@@TheHead9999 Scotland is in debt because it looks after England, this has been the case for 314 years. Only in this union is Scotland in trouble. With independence Scotland will thrive, with 34% of the UK's natural resources it will be fine. With Brexit England will sink like a stone, do the research if you dare.

[@arlene8938]

i dont know this man,but he looks like a kid happily franking people and laugh at them when he was still a kid

[@mikeedwards1096]

Some factual misinformation going on here. I was campaigning for Remain but I voted leave in the end. Mainly because of a what another Remainer told me which sort of fitted with the comments I was getting on the ground. He who was the chief executive contractor for Trusthouse Forte. He told me he sacked all British workers, thousands and thousands of them, because the Polish were cheaper (not because the UK workers didn't want to do their jobs - which echo chamber Remainers convince themselves). . This fitted with the government stats that I'd the checking confirming that the lowest paid had suppressed wages for 25 years!! A reduction of 3.7% if you included inflation. The better qualified pols in factories also meant unemployment went up too. I get why people want to hang onto some utopian belief about the EU. I once thought that way too. I just woke up and realised that the biggest enemy if us all, all Europeans, all peoples, was Neoliberalism and Globalism. It costs jobs, ruins family businesses and feeds the global monopolies of the elite. Even the conflict in Ukraine is about EU/US elites who simply want to increase their empires. The EU makes laws to support their growth - how can ANY real socialists agree with such an institution? As Tony Ben put it "I thought the EU was great but when I looked closely, it was about building an empire- a banking empire". Here in Portugal local shops are closing due to big stores opening and even village water taps are switched off to ensure the big water companies maximise their profits 😪. There seems to be a reluctance of many to acknowledge these facts about the EU. This lack of acceptance and usurping of the labour party by the ignorant, educated Progressives classes will mean the Conservatives are likely to win again. Politics is just crap now. Us real working class socialist just don't have anyone to vote for. We'd rather let the Cons win than have a pious bunch of Progressives take over. A very sad state of affairs indeed. Who do we vote for now?

[@sweetfriend23]

I don't know much about UK I was born in Canada. But I know a friend who live in UK before. After Brexit they left the UK and move the business to Canada. He still phone his friends,family and relatives back home. Everyday they told him fighting with neighbors, friends, families, community and peers and even coworkers. Harassment violent and bullying and being targeted. There are lot of racism on the street. Some non white people end up in hospital. Shortage of food, labour and more. Lack of job opportunities and increase in taxes and everything else from transportation and housing. Export and import have lot of red tape.There are lot of problem UK.

[@rjjcms1]

Where in the UK are they? None of that is happening anywhere near where I am.

[@amanb8698]

Independent Scotland and a United Ireland in the EU.

[@davidpearn2484]

Wales will follow Scotland and Northern Ireland.

[@khizzard_069]

@@davidpearn2484 is Wales even capable of being independently existent?

[@darrenmorgan387]

What's ur name? Jimmy cranky?

[@darrenmorgan387]

You lost, get over it. We left.

[@aledmorgan4889]

@@khizzard_069 why wouldn't we be capable?

[@mitchl2122]

A view from Dublin : Brexit was a childish move, nobody is benefiting from it , and after all the ,,majority'' was tiny , if voter turnout would have been different maybe the result would have been different , was like playing dice for an important matter . Hopefully one day , not so far away , will be another referendum to undo Brexit .

[@Belfreyite]

Yes. It was the wretched Geordies that turned the knife. Idiots!!!

[@jaimecosta2966]

I know longer leave in Britain however I lived in ingland for over twenty years my decision to leave UK was made many years ago and has nothing to do with brexit.. Saying that I can't understand how anyone would won't to give up access to twenty seven country's were they could work live get acess to free helfcare and many other benefits.. Personally i believe that people were missed lead and this now a burger problems if UK wanted to rejoin the EU it will take at least ten years and it will never get back the benefits that it had as a member.... Wish you all well

[@wardelliaenoch8936]

We are finding the things that look good on paper are much different when put into practice.

[@mikerphone.]

It's almost like that was said before Brexit....

[@DanJuega]

Lol it didn't even look good on paper

[@mikerphone.]

@@DanJuega True, i certainly didn't think it looked good at all. But then again i also said Trump was a massive con man, and man was i wrong about that....

[@ianwheeler7513]

The main issue was and is the EU introduced rules on tightening money laundering rules, so to the Tories and in fairness some members of other parties but mainly the Tories who tend to do things on an epic proportions, having sold off or closed so many of the UK's industries examples like auto manufacturing, helicopter manufacturers, rail system, gas suppliers, etc etc. So when the kids have no jobs or prospect outside of the Tory heartland,they look for reasons why,so to distract them these Tories sold them on the lie they were better off outside of the EU and it's all the fault of those pesky foreigners, now they're in deep shite. But the Tory grandes are okay they can asset strip for a while longer whilst tucking away their millions offshore avoiding taxes and at the same time claiming that trickle down economics really works. All done in the middle of a pandemic for a convenient cover and also to saddle the NHS with crippling debt. Yet many still chug down the Kool aid.

[@juliandavies7890]

Most of our industries went under the last Labour government.

[@ianwheeler7513]

@@juliandavies7890 sorry mate the coal mines were shut by Thatcher also the Helicopter manufacturers (Westland) were sold off to the Americans, incidentally the best prime minister the country never had resigned over that one, now there's a housing estate there, the rail system was sold off for as little as a pound again under the Tories, the car industry was sold to I think Phoenix who basically robbed the retirement fund and what remained of any assets . The Tories broke up the Energy supplying sector, tell me how that's going oh and where's the windfall from north sea oil and gas, it's not in a national fund like say Norway's or is it mostly in the pockets of Tory grandes and donors, you've not mentioned the money laundering rules or offshore money. Keep drinking the Kool aid .

[@robbiethepict2783]

Thatcher sold the UK industrial base and nationalized industries and left those communities on the scrapheap of human misery called the dole. Children of Britain know your place , born poor, die poor, the future belongs to those who can afford it.

[@buddha1736]

Boom exactly. 👍🏻

[@haliesalasi5867]

This is exactly what it was all about. And its funny how the likes of farage and rees mog gave their all for the brexit cause when they both come from a banking and finance background. Im sure both worked for a Rothschild bank in the process.

[@jankokomodo]

Britain have more "sitting behind the chair " workers then those who really work... and I how something about it ... I've been offer that job and I knew the is not the way, but everybody don't want to sweat a bit for others

[@davidclarke9783]

A lot of us Irish still call these Islands the "Home Countries."