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Re:Bank of England expects UK to fall into longest ever rece... by shagie on Thursday November 03, 2022 @03:25PM (#33456098)
With the mess of England's prime minster, a number of Brexit videos showed up in my feed on Youtube... some of the ones that I've watched that are interesting.

A German documentary (it has English subtitles for the German narration)): British Fishermen and Brexit | ARTE.tv Documentary https://youtu.be/gUKywFazdDo

A financial times article on Brexit - The Brexit effect: how leaving the EU hit the UK | FT Film https://youtu.be/wO2lWmgEK1Y

A TLDR from earlier this week: No-one Likes Brexit Anymore: What Happens Next? https://youtu.be/kLZOlHhumq8 (the main part on this relevant is the polling and the corresponding events)

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There's a fair bit of Brexit-regret going on now and some people apparently still think its a good idea. At the time of the referendum, it appears that quite a few people who did a day's work in Britain thought that it was a good idea, but have since come to realize that it wasn't.

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Re:Bank of England expects UK to fall into longest ever rece... by cirrus-clouds on Thursday November 03, 2022 @04:34PM (#33457114)
Your comment is perfectly reasonable and doesn't deserve downvote. I have seen the FT report on YouTube - it is excellent and worth a watch.

I can also recommended this short video (3 min): Brexit update (August 2022) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUiJxH2pclM

(As an aside, our national newspapers, mostly right-wing and Conservative-supporting, have poisoned political discourse for decades in the UK. The FT is the only national newspaper with a higher standard of journalism than the others.)

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Re:Bank of England expects UK to fall into longest ever rece... by shagie on Thursday November 03, 2022 @06:04PM (#33458473)
That was a nice short clip, and looking into it, the voice of Anna Ford was initially lost on me (not being British).

I found the German one to be the interesting too in that it was more "regular person" interview content (which was all in English) and the thoughts that they had about the Brexit, the promises that they were given and what they're seeing now. The FT video had a much more business orientation, which while informative on the, well, financial side of it didn't capture the common person's experience as much.

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