Brexit Is About To Get Much, Much Worse For Uk Citizens

[Hymie]

If you thought the continuing loss of billions of pounds in tax to the exchequer (and even more to the UK economy as a whole) as a direct result of Brexit is bad; you ain’t seen nothing yet.

The ‘EU law revocation and reform bill’ which has already passed two votes on the House of Commons (and despite not having passed into law yet), is due to take effect at the end of next year.

The bill proposes the loss of a host of rights, freedoms and protections of ordinary people; amongst them the right to annual paid leave, the right of women to equal pay for doing the same work as men and many, many more rights UK citizens have enjoyed for years as a result of being members of the EU.

I don’t recall the loss of these rights being plastered on the side of a red bus during the referendum debate – but that’s what you fools voted for.

[bobbinwales]

Hope you research them a bit better than you done on recent posts hymie....but good luck. You won't achieve anything here in terms of educating but I can see its good therapy and helps you cling onto the dream that brexit will be overturned soon

[Hymie]

Besides the obviously loss of free movement throughout EU countries, from November of next year we will have to pay £6 for an e-visa to travel to EU countries (but at least it lasts 3 years).

[royfromaus]

OMG, really?

[Hymie]

To some extent I would agree, despite my posts pointing out what an absolute disaster Brexit is for the UK – most ABers seem woefully unaware of this.

But if you follow my posts, you will know that I also list the UK Brexit benefits – without my postings, I’m willing to bet most ABers would be completely unaware of the Brexit benefit of the signage distances within the Dartford tunnel.

[naomi24]

Hymie, don't you know how pathetic that sounds?

[theshedman]

Hymie does this on your earlier post mean you are going to keep going on about this into next year and probably beyond " in the not too distant future, I shall be listing the rights UK citizens have lost through voting for Brexit." I have heard of lets do best out of three or being closed to all other thoughts on something but you are really on a different planet to most. Whether a leaver or remainer it is done so lets just get on with it. Don't depress yourself with something you can't change. By the way I am not a fool, we all had a chance to vote for what we wanted to do. Name calling doesn't make you look good just rather childish and silly.

[Hymie]

Within my lifetime, the cumulative total losses to the UK economy (as a direct result of Brexit) are likely to exceed the UK’s annual GDP (Gross Domestic Product), based on an annual 5% loss.
And Brexiteers don’t see this as an absolute disaster.

[royfromaus]

£6 for 3 years...I'm still reeling!

[Hymie]

Naomi24 – you may think everyone is aware of the Dartford tunnel signage distance Brexit benefit – but most people I mention this to, tell me that they were genuinely not aware of it (until mentioned by me).

[naomi24]

They can all depend on you for education, hymie. Give yourself a gold star. ;o)

[Untitled]

i am quite grateful to hymie for continuing to point out the substantial costs of brexit... too often people simply ignore them or pretend they don't exist and they have been doing so since the referendum in 2016...

unfortunately it's not much use... brexiters will continue to pretend that the economy never mattered to them (it did at the time, they were claiming we would benefit and now have changed their tune) and to reverse brexit would itself have severe consequences at this point... we're all stuck with it.

[naomi24]

//brexiters will continue to pretend that the economy never mattered to them //

Who said that, untitled?

[Untitled]

who said what?

[Hymie]

TTT for one.

[Deskdiary]

Hands up anybody who didn't know what GDP stands for, and they needed Hymie to place 'Gross Domestic Product' in brackets in his continuing arrogance in what he laughingly refers to as "educating" people.

I can only speak for myself, but I've known since 1984 when I started my Economics 'O' Level at 14.

[Hymie]

Deskdiary, I suspect you failed your O level Economics exam, having though the most important point in my post was defining GDP, and not the cumulative loss amount to the UK as a direct result of Brexit.

[Deskdiary]

You can, of course, suspect whatever you like...

[bobbinwales]

I've come to the conclusion I came to with gulliver.... these threads are from a Brexiteer whose having a laugh and rubbing it in ..... by making some Remainers look like stubborn gullible poor losers

[Khandro]

"But now it’s many Remainers who are the swivel-eyed loons, spitting hatred for their fellow man through spittle-flecked lips – and I, for one, am done with humouring them. In 2023 it will be seven years since the referendum and I simply cannot face the thought of another season listening to this drivelling on. There are of course plenty of Remainers who have accepted the Brexit vote. Even Keir Starmer – the Remainer’s Remainer – understands that to keep banging on about Brexit is the quickest way to make oneself appear like a stuck old record. But there are some who just can’t move on....."

Julie Birchill. The Spectator

[New Judge]

//…we are going to lose many of those protections offered by the laws that were enacted in the UK, in compliance with those Directives.//

Hymie, I have demonstrated that far from ”… a protection offered by the laws that were enacted in the UK, in compliance with those Directives”, the UK law which provided for equal pay was enacted before we even joined the EU and the law which replaced it (the Equalities Act 2010) also had nothing whatsoever to do with the EU. The EU is not the sole provider of the protections you are so concerned about. The UK has provided many of those protections without any encouragement from the EU and will continue to do so as it thinks fit.

You are exhibiting symptoms of paranoia. Either that or you are a wind-up merchant. If not, you are behaving very much like one. Either that or you really don’t have a clue what you’re talking about.