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Topic History of: All those fishermen voting for Brexit Max. showing the last 5 posts - (Last post first)
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Jo
That's bad news. Wonder how many jobs will be lost. Coincidentally, I was watching the documentary below recently about fishermen in Hull and Grimsby and how Brexit was affecting them. Some, maybe all interviewed, can't remember, had voted for Brexit and were having regrets. One had bought a trawler that he was trying to resell at a loss because he discovered after he bought it that, thanks to Brexit, it no longer came with fishing rights or some kind of licence, and he'd have to pay £500,000 to use it. There was mention that Hull or Grimsby, can't remember which, was traditionally Labour voting but they'd decided to vote Tory and for Brexit after a visit by Boris Johnson. The thing that stuck in my mind, though, had nothing to do with Brexit (or did it?): a mother who said she had tried to make an appointment for a dental check-up for her kids and had been told there was a three-year waiting list.
I noticed a comment online the other day from someone who said that on the latest episode of Question Time, from a Leave-voting constituency in Suffolk, there were audience members expressing regret about Brexit.
It's infuriating that we're now seeing what the experts and "Remoaners" were warning about all along. But I think there's little chance the UK will rejoin, as Brexit ripped up all the opt-outs that the UK negotiated over the years, such as not being in Schengen and not joining the euro, and it seems unlikely that the EU would allow the UK to re-enter on special arrangements no other new members receive.
Green Man
You never left the EU, only in name only.
JK2006
may now be wondering whether it was a good idea...
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