Carl St. James
1 min readOct 27, 2022

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From the inside of the cell here in the UK it is painfully obvious which problems are the fault of Brexit. Import/Export has become an absolute nightmare with companies (including mine) being instructed its better to set up shop in the EU than attempt to export there and importing things requires 10 extra forms to be filled in. (so much for EU bureaucracy)

One of the pieces of 'EU Red Tape' that went was environmental protection for waterways meaning we had literal sewage being dumped straight into rivers and the sea with no recourse for the water companies responsible.

Its bigger than Brexit though. The last 12 years of Tory rule has tripled national debt before Covid (despite a thinly veiled attempt at 'austerity') and a lot of Covid money went straight into nepotistic back pockets of friends of the government as oversight rules were relaxed.

The worst part is the societal divisions it has caused. Before 2016 we might have had differing political views to each other but we all mostly got along. Brexit split the populace down the middle with many pro-EU voters blaming their lack of prospects and stripping of EU rights on the pro-brexit crowd and the pro-brexit voters being deluded by the media into blaming its failings on the remain crowd.

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Carl St. James
Carl St. James

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