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