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It was a decisive victory for Leave, and it was made very clear to everyone voting that it was a once-in-a-generation referendum, the outcome of which would be respected.

MPs would then have been voted out for overruling the will of the people. There was a referendum. Remain lost. Last year we had another General Election, with the Conservatives cam…

What I’ve actually been doing is resisting attempts to conflate two separate claims: 1) The claim that the EU has never forced the UK to do anything. Sheer nonsense. This is the cl…

EU nationals come to the UK, and they participate in both the labour and housing markets. A small number act to stimulate supply in those markets (e.g. entrepreneurs setting up bus…

Because a free trade deal between the US and UK would be mutually beneficial. Talks have been ongoing for some time now, and I would expect a deal to materialize in the coming year…

The UK housing crisis is a complex issue with several driving factors. My point in this thread is that uncontrolled migration from the EU has not helped the matter. It is a real, t…

If young people in the UK genuinely didn’t want to do “menial” jobs, employers would either increase the pay until they filled the roles, or invest in the more highly skilled labou…

It’s good to know EU nationals don’t need housing, so the millions residing in the UK aren’t adding any pressure whatsoever to our existing housing crisis.

Of course, how could I forget the brownfield sites. I’ll let all the young people know there isn’t a housing crisis after all, and seeing as the millions of EU nationals residing i…

Brexit (Britain’s exit from the European Union) happened on 31 January 2020.

There’s a long list of major economies that don’t have free trade deals with the EU, such as the United States, China, India and Australia.

When people refer to a “Canada” style trade deal in the context of Brexit, they are referring to the free trade deal between Canada and the EU. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comp…

By definition, the laws the EU have forced on the UK were opposed by the UK government, and would not have made their way into UK law had they not been forced by the EU.

You’re using PPP-adjusted figures which distort the picture. The latest wave of migration to the UK has been from Romania, not Poland. I’m not talking about refugees, I’m talking a…

I was responding to a claim that “[as] a member of the EU we have never once, ever been “forced” into anything.” I have not made any claim about those laws causing me trouble, but …

Perhaps I’m missing something, but how does a list of 72 laws the EU forced on the UK refute the “myth” that the EU forced laws on the UK?

For the benefit of non-UK readers, the source in question (The Guardian) is a left-wing newspaper that is highly critical of the current UK government, and has been opposed to Brex…

> As a member of the EU we have never once, ever been “forced” into anything. Total nonsense. The EU set laws the UK had to follow, and the ECJ had the power to overrule UK courts.…

> I live in the UK. Brexit will only make my life worse. I don't see any upside to it. Brexit has clearly had a significant detrimental effect on your life, given it happened eleve…

The EU is a protectionist trade bloc like any other and imposes tariffs and quotas on trade with countries outside the bloc accordingly.

Regain what freedoms, exactly? The freedom to be undercut in the labour market and priced out of the housing market by uncontrolled immigration from other EU countries?

Except none of that applies to the deal that’s been negotiated between the UK and the EU...

And yet for some reason we’re discussing this in a thread about a free trade deal that’s just been agreed between the UK and EU, which allows free movement of goods without tariffs…

Worth pointing out the truck backlog is unrelated to Brexit.

I’m sure they have options, but do they have options to work for employers that perfectly align with their own moral compass? I doubt even Facebook employees have that luxury, whic…