0:02 it's now been two years since Britain
0:04 completed its withdrawal from the
0:06 European Union and it's still struggling
0:07 with the Fallout
0:10 promised economic gains have failed to
0:12 materialize Britain has missed out on
0:14 much of the recovery and global trade
0:17 since the pandemic and the loss of EU
0:19 workers has worsened labor shortages and
0:22 Health Care hospitality and agriculture
0:25 businesses are also facing higher costs
0:27 and more red tape yeah
0:28 yeah
0:31 even the arrival of the milk trucks
0:33 makes the cheese maker feel a little
0:36 wistful brexit-related losses forced
0:38 Simon Sparrow to sell a majority stake
0:41 in his company I feel betrayed and
0:46 really really quite let down by a
0:48 government that promised much and
0:50 delivered nothing
0:52 his small business used to deliver
0:54 English cheddar VIA mail order to
0:56 private customers in the EU but thanks
0:58 to brexit every single piece of cheese
1:01 now requires a certificate from the
1:03 veterinary office that was prohibitively
1:06 expensive there's no way anybody's going
1:09 to pay another 180 pounds plus all the
1:11 paperwork that's involved
1:13 nearby in the northern English town of
1:16 crew few ever imagined that brexit would
1:18 be so problematic
1:21 even in the brexit heartlands like here
1:22 in the north of England people are
1:25 reversing their opinion polls show that
1:27 a majority now believe that brexit was a
1:30 bad idea however this does not mean that
1:32 their decision to leave the EU will be
1:35 reversed at least not anytime soon
1:39 Ron Jones Imports rugs from Belgium he's
1:41 also facing a lot more red tape because
1:43 of brexit
1:46 it was never a good idea it was never a
1:47 good idea but it was the will of the
1:49 people can have that one for 20. more
1:52 and more studies show that post-brexit
1:53 trade barriers are harming the British
1:56 economy and thank you for the lack of EU
1:59 workers has caused labor shortages I
2:02 don't think it just worked as well as we
2:04 thought it would
2:08 but we did want to be ourselves again
2:11 really the doctors don't stop coming you
2:13 know and the nurses they're you know
2:15 we've got we are so down now
2:19 it's been an unmitigated disaster
2:23 absolute disaster yeah so in the
2:25 meantime Simon Sparrow is managing to
2:27 sell cheese at a profit in the EU again
2:30 via the European Hub of the new majority
2:33 shareholder the cheese maker would have
2:35 never dreamed that brexit would have
2:42 I asked London correspondent Carl
2:44 nausman what changes people in Britain
2:46 are seeing
2:48 there have been so many changes Terry
2:50 some of those changes have been more
2:52 visible than others but as you saw in
2:54 the piece this is having a very big
2:57 economic impact especially on British
3:00 small businesses is just so much more
3:02 difficult to do business with the EU
3:04 there are Customs checks there are
3:07 inspections delays problems with paying
3:10 taxes it has really led to a drastic
3:14 drop in business between the two blocks
3:15 and you have to say it's also more
3:18 difficult for EU businesses as well to
3:20 import British goods to hire British
3:23 workers to establish those relationships
3:26 because the E the UK is no longer in
3:30 that EU single Market all of this has
3:32 become much more obvious over the last
3:34 couple of years and of course it's
3:37 difficult to try to isolate the economic
3:39 impacts of brexit alone but there have
3:41 been some studies that have done that
3:43 one of the most important coming from an
3:45 independent government body that
3:49 estimates Rex acid did shrink the UK
3:51 economy will be by as much as four
3:55 percent that is 100 billion pounds per
3:58 year Terry big difference
4:01 well okay well given that Carl how do
4:04 britons feel about brexit two years in
4:11 yeah I mean it's important to remember
4:15 this term brexit fatigue very many
4:16 people here they simply just didn't want
4:18 to talk about brexit it's been such a
4:20 long process dating back all the way to
4:24 2016 and that EU referendum now however
4:27 this year we've seen a change people are
4:28 talking about it more you heard those
4:31 complaints in the piece you hear them if
4:33 you stand in those long passport lines
4:36 at EU airports British people talking
4:38 about brexit again more reports in the
4:40 media as well and you see these
4:43 shortages of EU workers too that all
4:46 adds up to a big reduction in support
4:49 for brexit one recent poll showing 56
4:51 percent of people here say that leaving
4:54 the EU was the wrong decision even more
4:55 strikingly less than a third of people
4:59 now say it was the right decision a big
5:01 reduction in support for brexit and
5:04 finally Carl very briefly uh are there
5:05 still issues that still need to be
5:07 ironed out between the UK and the EU
5:13 tricky breakup for sure there was a
5:15 laundry list of suggestions put forward
5:18 by a small Business Bureau here in terms
5:20 of ways to improve the current trade
5:22 agreement between the two sides some in
5:25 the conservative party want to see a new
5:27 deal similar to the trade agreement that
5:30 Switzerland has with the EU but look if
5:31 you are one of those people that is
5:34 holding their breath for a new agreement
5:36 maybe even the UK rejoining the EU not
5:38 going to happen anytime soon even the
