Honestly it’s just a massive pain in the arse for any company that does business in the single market. Exporting and importing is now more expensive and wrapped in miles of red tape. It hurts small businesses in particular, who can’t exploit economies of scale in dealing with the bureaucracy.

Even trying to be somewhat objective about it, it is genuinely difficult to see where any concrete benefits are going to come from.

I used to live in the seaside town of Bournemouth and every summer thousands of teenage kids from all over Europe would come to study at the many language schools which are now suffering and tanking local economies thanks To Brexit.

https://www.ft.com/content/64346956-4ae4-4751-8b81-db7f1d578...

The Au Pair system too is languishing.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/nov/18/familie...

This article is interesting, but it is the perspective of a single cheesemaker who was seriously harmed by Brexit. I would be really interested in a broader analysis of the overall effects of Brexit on the United Kingdom. I looked for this a week or two ago with disappointing results. Can anyone suggest such an article?

I visited London right after Brexit.

Young people got heavily screwed out of visa free work in Europe.

Fear mongering and xenophobia unfortunately won in Britain. I wonder if in 10 years or so it would be possible to re enter the EU

In fact, the rules around importing whole milk products direct to the consumer have nothing to do with Brexit negotiations. It's a rule that was introduced by the EU in December 2019 and it applies to all third-party countries. It's unlikely in the extreme that the UK would ever have been given an exemption post-Brexit.

The Brexit addled PM essentially killed the UK toehold in the EU. They are now a pimple on an elephant. More and more EU buyers and sellers with both with the added paperwork for Customs and VAT and do not forget label and electrical standards are just not going to both and will not buy/sell to the UK. Here in Canada we see many ebay sellers with "not shipped to Canada" for simple added postage/UPS/DHL procedures - which cost extra. UPS and USPS will ship to Canada - but it needs more labelling, a pro-forma customs invoice, and a different process to ship.

The UK is already ruing the day that they let Johnson and the Brexit RA-RA stampede them into leaving. Labor and manufacturing are already being hammered - which Brexit blames on Covid....after Covid...it will not be coming back.

Time for a new PM/Party/whatever!!!

I'm not familiar with the matter at all, but wouldn't there be a flip side, that his company has now a lot less competition from EU cheese makers in the UK?

Sigh. Not this discussion again.

Also it's the guardian, may as well post a telegraph article that says the exact opposite.

My take on it: when money is involved, humans are excellent at optimising those systems.

Look at the lengths and success of people/companies go through to minimise paying tax.

What I'm trying to say is that we'll be fine once the existing systems are optimised for us not being in the EU. Obviously we're in the adjustment period, and I feel sorry for the people struggling with that.

It's a pretty nice experiment to see what happens when you don't encourage trade.

The biggest benefit from trade between countries is that it prevents war.

Erm, so because you suffer from the changes, suddenly you generalize to "the biggest disaster ever"?

I'm a little surprised such a histrionic headline is sticking for this one here. After living through the same dramatic statements every day from 2016-2020 here in the US about how the last administration was the biggest disaster ever, well, thanks to that "disaster" we had gas that was $1.50/gal cheaper, inflation was minimal, taxes were lower, we had far fewer illegal border crossings, a competent leader for getting us out of Afghanistan the right way, and so on. But, if you read the headlines daily, the world was coming to an end.

Today we have a more polite president, but far more expensive gas, crazy inflation, the Afghanistan situation was a mess, we have the most illegal border crossings in decades and decades, and double the deaths in the same period as the last administration. But if you read the headlines, things are heading in the right direction, well, because, totally unbiased of course. Bad things happen, but they're really not a big deal, and actually, Biden doesn't really have much to do with it. Here's Why.

The media drives me nuts.

Biggest disaster ever because a cheese maker can't export to countries that already have thriving cheese industries.