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by socalgal2 3 days ago
I'm curious what valid reasons there are against Brexit? AFAICT, most people arguing it is/was bad are ignoring any kind of evidence.

The UK is doing fine, especially relative to other EU countries. None of the things the anti-Brexit side claimed would happen have happened.
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tim333 3 days ago
It's been quite meh economically - we'd be wealthier if we'd remained. Also immigration went up which is not what a lot of Brexiters were hoping.

I think a lot of the Brexit vote was just people being fed up and voting for something different. In my experience few Brexit voters are happy with what arrived.

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socalgal2 10 hours ago
There's no evidence Britain would be wealthier if it remained.
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anonymousiam 3 days ago
"we'd be wealthier if we'd remained"

Briton would be even wealthier still if they had never joined the EU in the first place.

https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-...

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tim333 3 days ago
Debatable. Britain used to be a bit of a mess around joining in 1973. Check out

British disease https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_British_disease

Sick man of Europe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sick_man_of_Europe

Things then picked up, especially in finance when in 2014: London overtakes New York to be named world's finance capital https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/london-overtakes-new-...

then Brexit screwed that up. The charges in your link are nothing compared to that lot really.

Headline today: Britain’s debt rising at fastest rate in the world – bar Botswana

I mean you can't really say how it would have gone but tearing up the trade deals with your main trading partners is seldom great for business.

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