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28 Sep, 15 tweets, 9 min read
💷 £1,200 cost of Brexit to every person
🛒 Empty supermarket shelves
⚡️ Rising energy prices
🏥 NHS under threat
📲 Roaming charges
⛽️ Fuel shortages

Boris Johnson's hard Brexit is forcing all of us to pay a heavy price.

Here's a thread. 👇🏼

snp.org/real-cost-of-b…
📉 Brexit is shrinking our economy.

@scotgov modelling shows that Scotland is disproportionately impacted by Brexit, with a 6% GDP loss by 2030.

Brexiteers promised an extra £350m/week, but the reality of Brexit actually means the economy faces a cost of around £800m/week.
@scotgov 💷 Brexit costs around £1,200 per person.

The OBR, the UK government's own forecaster, estimated that most of the damage is still to come.

An average cost of Brexit per person has been around £480, with at least a £720 cost still to be inflicted.
@scotgov 👷🏼 Businesses are struggling to hire staff.

Because of Brexit and a hostile UK immigration policy, fruit and vegetables have been rotting in the fields.

There aren't enough vets, manufacturing workers, and lorry drivers - and the Tory 'temporary visas' are too little, too late.
@scotgov 🐄 Brexit is damaging Scotland's farming industry.

The Tories continue to fail to protect farmers from being undercut in future trade deals.

The Australia trade deal does nothing to compensate for the damage of Brexit, and only threatens our food and environmental standards.
@scotgov 🐟 Scotland's fishing communities have been sold out by this Tory Brexit.

Fishing fleets now have access to fewer valuable fish stocks, and a pile-up of costs and bureaucracy – despite hollow Tory promises of a ‘sea of opportunity’.
@scotgov 🚨 Our NHS is under threat of being sold off by the Tories.

Boris Johnson promised an extra £350 million a week for the NHS, but in January 2021, he and Tory MPs have voted against legal protections for the NHS in future trade deals.

independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
@scotgov 🎓 Brexit means reduced opportunities for young people.

In 2019, the UK government pledged to retain access to the Erasmus exchange scheme - but in 2021, it unilaterally crashed out, depriving students of the opportunity to live and study abroad.
@scotgov 📲 Brexit means the return of costly roaming charges.

Before Brexit, people in the UK were able to use the minutes, texts and data included in their mobile phone tariffs when travelling across the EU.

Now, they're forced to face expensive bills again.
@scotgov 💡 Brexit means rising energy prices, pushing more into fuel poverty and hitting households hard.

During the EU referendum, Boris Johnson promised he'd scrap VAT on household energy bills to make them cheaper. He failed.

Energy bills are now around £500 higher than in 2015.
@scotgov 🛒 And Brexit means food shortages too.

'Empty supermarket shelves' certainly wasn't on the side of a big red bus.

Now, retailers are warning this might get worse in the run up to Christmas.

theguardian.com/business/2021/…
@scotgov 📈 Food prices are also on the rise because of Brexit.

A retail industry leader recently said that “in the run-up to Christmas, the situation could get worse”, with “reduced choice” and “increased prices”.

The shortage of lorry drivers and key staff is making it even worse.
@scotgov ⛽️ Brexit means fuel shortages and long queues.

The shortage of lorry drivers, caused by Brexit and the UK government’s hostile immigration policy, has caused long queues at petrol stations.

It also pushed up fuel prices to an eight-year high across the UK.
@scotgov 📉 Brexit means crumbling exports to the EU, hitting businesses and jobs hard.

In 2021 so far, exports of goods to the EU were 19% lower than in 2018.

The UK is the only country in north west Europe with falling exports, and is getting much less competitive.
@scotgov 🗳️ Scotland can choose a better future, and we will have that choice.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Let's build a fairer, more equal, more prosperous Scotland in Europe - free from damaging Tory governments imposed on us at Westminster.

🤝 Pledge your support: yes.scot/signup

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