MOST VOTERS SAY BREXIT HAS GONE BADLY

Sun 26 December 2021:

According to a recent poll conducted for The Observer, more than six out of ten voters believe that Brexit has gone bad or worse than expected. This follows the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union a year ago.

The survey also revealed that 42% of those who voted to leave in 2016 had a negative opinion of how the Brexit process had gone. Furthermore, 26% of those who supported the exit said it had gone worse than expected.

Another 16% of those who voted for Brexit predicted that it would go badly and were proven correct. 86 percent of those who voted to stay in the EU said it had gone badly or worse than they had expected.

Adam Drummond, of Opinium, was quoted by the Guardian as saying, “For most of the Brexit process any time you’d ask a question that could be boiled down to ‘is Brexit good or bad?’ you’d have all of the Remainers saying ‘bad’ and all of the Leavers saying ‘good’ and these would cancel each other out. Now what we’re seeing is a significant minority of Leavers saying that things are going badly or at least worse than they expected.”

The poll comes a week after David Frost, the UK’s Brexit Minister, resigned.

Frost announced his resignation in a letter to UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, following reports that he was planning to step down next month.

In resignation letter, Frost said, “That is why we agreed earlier this month that I would move on in January and hand over the baton to others to manage our future relationship with the EU.”

According to the Daily Mail, the minister resigned due to growing public dissatisfaction with the government.

Shane Brennan, chief executive of the Cold Chain Federation, said he expected many of the problems faced over the past year by small UK businesses exporting to the EU, particularly the rising cost of sending small amounts because of new charges, would now confront those sending small specialist consignments the other way, from the EU to the UK.

He warned that this could lead to less availability of specialist food products from the continent arriving in UK shops. “Small traders have a choice, find a way to send more less often, or don’t send it at all,” Brennan said. “For lots of businesses you can’t justify sending a lorry load of fresh food a day or week and so you won’t do it. The net result is less variety, less fresh, quality specialist goods on the shelf, from outside the UK anyway.”

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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