Only one in 10 feel leaving the EU has helped their finances, while just 9% say it has benefited the NHS, despite £350m a week pledge

Only one in 10 feel leaving the EU has helped their finances, while just 9% say it has benefited the NHS, despite £350m a week pledge according to new poll

A clear majority of the British public now believes Brexit has been bad for the UK economy, has driven up prices in shops, and has hampered government attempts to control immigration, according to a poll by Opinium to mark the third anniversary of the UK leaving the EU single market and customs union.

The survey of more than 2,000 UK voters also finds strikingly low numbers of people who believe that Brexit has benefited them or the country.

Just one in 10 believe leaving the EU has helped their personal financial situation, against 35% who say it has been bad for their finances, while just 9% say it has been good for the NHS, against 47% who say it has had a negative effect.

  • Ulrich_the_Old@lemmy.caEnglish
    603·
    1 year ago

    You should go crawling on your knees and beg the EU to take you back, and farage, rees-mogg and boris should pay for the entire thing.

    • highenergyphysics@lemmy.worldEnglish
      614·
      1 year ago

      My hot take: the EU is better off without them. Britain has always been a belligerent holier than thou obstacle to progress for the EU, even after they got a sweetheart deal that NO OTHER European nation got offered.

      Let them rot on their island while the rest of Europe actually makes progress.

    • Rikudou_Sage@lemmings.worldEnglish
      17·
      1 year ago

      All the while being pissed off that no, you won’t get all the exceptions you had the last time. And yes, you’ll have to ditch £ for € eventually*.

      * there’s a pretty stupid loophole that allows you to postpone adopting Euro indefinitely, though I feel even the fact that officially they’re agreeing to adopt the Euro will be a low blow for the pride of UK people.

    • scarabic@lemmy.worldEnglish
      119·
      1 year ago

      That’s like a couple getting married again after a divorce. It HAS happened, but only when both people are lost together in a world of mutual crazy that neither can live outside. I don’t think the EU is participating in the Uk’s fantasy world, so it’ll never happen.

      • OhNoMoreLemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish
        71·
        1 year ago

        Nah. The honest truth is that the EU doesn’t care that much about the UK.

        It’s much more like someone storming out their local pub and refusing to come back. It’s a big deal to the guy that left, but a much smaller deal to everyone still drinking in the pub.

        If the UK stops acting like a dick and pays for their share they’d be eventually welcome back, once it looked like they’d actually learnt their lesson and wouldn’t do it again. The real barriers to rejoining are on the UK side. No one wants to reopen that can of worms.

      • Simulation6@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        21·
        1 year ago

        UK had one of the larger militarys in the EU. Only reason I can see them ever considering it.

        • scarabic@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Aren’t most of the EU also NATO members? I guess I’ve never thought much about the military aspects of the EU.

          • chitak166@lemmy.worldEnglish
            14·
            1 year ago

            Do you think your analogy is a 1:1 representation of the situation at hand? Lol.

            • scarabic@lemmy.worldEnglish
              11·
              1 year ago

              Look. If you’re not prepared to actually discuss and share your ideas, why comment at all? And don’t go putting the burden on me to invalidate the opinion you just dropped, raw, and walked away from.