Today's factoid: 2 wks ago I invited people to send examples of how they personally had been affected by Brexit; and a separate tweet requesting positive examples. I got 422 replies to the 1st, many heartrending. 7 replies to the 2nd. This alone is revealing. But there's more...
Of the +ve replies, (all contributed in good faith), one was that UK/US scientists had been able to invent covid vaccines - on which I note this has nothing to do with being in or out of the EU; scientists being able to do such research all along, irrespective of EU membership;
And while in EU, easier for scientists to collaborate with EU counterparts, and benefit from EU Horizon funds. I do acknowledge UK vaccine procurement and distribution effort was v impressive...at least at start of year, though we've now fallen behind, alas.
Second reply was that we're now able to control immigration, since FoM unpopular. To which I note a) we now have shortages of workers in many sectors since so many EU nationals have left; and...
b) as tragedies in channel indicate, we're still not in control of our borders, and outside the EU, can no longer benefit from the EU programme which allowed us to return migrants to the first EU country in which they arrived, so we have even more of a challenge on our hands;
3 of the other replies were arguments contradicting the positive examples given above...along the lines of my own comments
And the last comment offering a positive benefit of Brexit was to the effect that after all the destruction they have wrought, the Tories would one day be held accountable and buried forever as a political force. Now there's a thought.
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