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By KELVIN CHAN LONDON©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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jeancolmar
Best of luck striking Amazon warehouse workers !!
GBR48
Sterling was $1.65 before the Brexit referendum. It is now $1.24. That's a reduction in real terms of one quarter of the assets of all Britons. Their house value, their savings and their pay. As almost everything is priced in USD (including North Sea oil), Brexit made the UK about 25% poorer. So although prices are perceived to be going up, in fact it is the local currency that has gone down. It has taken time for that to filter through to supermarket checkouts. Many of the strikers voted for Brexit, effectively voting to be poorer.
That's how much Brexit cost the British people: One quarter of everything they have. Truss very nearly took it down to one third.
Covid and Ukraine were just the icing on the cake, but have been used to cover things up by the Tory government.
Strangerland
Britons who voted for Brexit voted to put sanctions on their own country. Sanctions are when you raise the tax on the goods coming into your country (or deny them altogether), and that's exactly what has happened in Briton - without being a part of the EU bloc, they now have to pay more for things coming in, with some things not allowed at all.
Anyone with intelligence knew this was a ridiculous emotional response to societal problems, rather than a logical one, but unfortunately more Brits who lacked that intelligence voted for Brexit than voted to stay.
If I were an intelligent Brit, I think I'd be looking to migrate to the EU.