Even if that were true - and it isn't - countless export-oriented businesses have been shutting down because it is now insanely bureaucratic and uneconomically expensive to trade with a bloc that is just over 20 miles away.

The lies told to get Brexit over the line normalised a period of exceptionalist reality-denying insanity which has spilled over into Covid policy, economic policy, climate policy, health policy, energy policy, immigration policy [1], transport and logistics, media credibility, and political stability.

It is - without any exaggeration at all - an absolute shit show.

No one earning less than a few million a year has benefited in any lasting or significant way. Certainly not big-picture economically.

[1] Pandemic aside, Brexit has had no impact on immigration numbers.

https://migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/briefings/lo...

There has been a labour shortage for years now in these sectors. It hasn’t helped their situation and both pubs and shops keep closing. These people have few reasons to be happy.