<story><title>Brexit has failed for UK, say clear majority of Britons – poll</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/dec/30/britons-brexit-bad-uk-poll-eu-finances-nhs</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Whoppertime</author><text>What were you getting out of EU regulations? Rules on the curvature of Cucumbers and bananas passed by unelected unaccountable bureaucrats who do not represent your interests but that of the collective?</text></item><item><author>monkeydust</author><text>As a Brit I can not associate a single positive outcome to us leaving the EU. Not saying one doesn&amp;#x27;t exist but to me, personally, I can&amp;#x27;t. Many probably feel this way so they blame all the big issues we have like prices and immigration on Brexit. Is there direct causation here? Not sure, maybe. Either way I suspect we will end up joining again just might take a decade or two.&lt;p&gt;Edit: one positive this year was us becoming part of the Horizon programme.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ec.europa.eu&amp;#x2F;commission&amp;#x2F;presscorner&amp;#x2F;detail&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;IP_23_6327&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ec.europa.eu&amp;#x2F;commission&amp;#x2F;presscorner&amp;#x2F;detail&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;IP_23_...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jdietrich</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt;What were you getting out of EU regulations?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Economies of scale. Post-Brexit, we&amp;#x27;ve copy-and-pasted nearly all EU regulations, because it turns out that a) writing and maintaining regulations is really difficult and expensive and b) there are massive advantages to having the same regulations as your most important trade partners. A lot of people didn&amp;#x27;t like the &lt;i&gt;idea&lt;/i&gt; of EU regulations, but very few people have identified anything in those regulations that they actually want to change.&lt;p&gt;As a conservative, the whole Brexit project strikes me as antithetical to conservative principles - we abandoned the status quo with no clear idea of what we&amp;#x27;d replace it with, nor any clear sense of what the advantages might be. The fallout of Brexit is an incredibly strong vindication of Chesterton&amp;#x27;s Fence. Shortcomings in EU institutions are a valid justification for leaving only if you&amp;#x27;re confident that you can replace them with something better; it was only &lt;i&gt;after&lt;/i&gt; the referendum that we started seriously discussing what the decision to leave actually meant.</text></comment>
<story><title>Brexit has failed for UK, say clear majority of Britons – poll</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/dec/30/britons-brexit-bad-uk-poll-eu-finances-nhs</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Whoppertime</author><text>What were you getting out of EU regulations? Rules on the curvature of Cucumbers and bananas passed by unelected unaccountable bureaucrats who do not represent your interests but that of the collective?</text></item><item><author>monkeydust</author><text>As a Brit I can not associate a single positive outcome to us leaving the EU. Not saying one doesn&amp;#x27;t exist but to me, personally, I can&amp;#x27;t. Many probably feel this way so they blame all the big issues we have like prices and immigration on Brexit. Is there direct causation here? Not sure, maybe. Either way I suspect we will end up joining again just might take a decade or two.&lt;p&gt;Edit: one positive this year was us becoming part of the Horizon programme.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ec.europa.eu&amp;#x2F;commission&amp;#x2F;presscorner&amp;#x2F;detail&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;IP_23_6327&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ec.europa.eu&amp;#x2F;commission&amp;#x2F;presscorner&amp;#x2F;detail&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;IP_23_...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>midasuni</author><text>No, a standard trade regulations and common way of dealing with businesses with a ton of consumer protection as voted in by a parliament more representative than my own national Parliament and a council comprised of my national government.</text></comment>