Brexit has completely failed for UK, say clear majority of Britons

Nothing good in human history has ever come from conservatism. Nothing at all.
- You mean a backwards looking ideology doesn’t address the needs of society today and in the future?
  
  Even calling it "backwards" is falling for conservatives' euphemistic lie. Conservatism has never really been about "upholding tradition" or any of the bullshit they claim; it's only ever been about authoritarianism and enforcing hierarchy. If it happens to jive with a "tradition" it is only because said tradition is authoritarian and hierarchical.
  
  The "It used to be fine so it still should be" ideology
- conservatism
  Putin worked hard to promote conservative agendas in UK, U.S. and France, to degrade those countries. It worked in all but France.
  
  Agreed! France really impresses me. The people there are strong-willed and don't put up with bullshit. I found myself cheering for them all year this year.
  
  Yet... Far right is on the highway to the next election
- Ive been seeing a surge of conservative comments on lemmy. Im glad that comments such as this one still gets highly upvoted
- National parks maybe
  
  I think you are confusing conservationism with conservatism. These two topics are completely unrelated. The very first sentence on the wikipedia page for conservationism expresses that.
  If you were referring to presidents who most influenced the proliferation of national parks, I think Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt would be the two that are most responsible. As you probably know, both were famously progressive (the opposite ideology of conservatism).

Gosh, if ONLY SOMEONE WOULD HAVE WARNED PEOPLE that brexit was a terrible idea tossed together by fear mongering, self interested dickheads!!! If only someone had mentioned it was a terrible idea ahead of time!
- Also if only more than 24% of the voters could have been arsed to vote.
  
  I voted against it, still annoyed.
  
  The vote was cursory, it was not supposed to be binding.
  
  Absolutely. Like in the brexit referendum of 2016, which had a 72% turnout. Not like that referendum you are referencing, which is... Which one exactly?
- It's not like remainers ever put up a convincing argument prior to losing the referendum.
  Turned voting age on the referendum, visited our predominantly working class school, only ever brought up cheaper phone calls abroad as to why they should vote to remain.
  Brexit only had pull out the weakest reasons to leave becuase they were the only ones who took the referendum seriously.
- The reality is that there were a thousand paths back from that cliff. The vote was no binding, and barely a majority. If the British public wanted to halt it they could have just elected non-leave politicians in the years afterwards, but they didn't.
- The problem was that nobody in the UK did an effective job of arguing for remain. They were caught napping because they were convinced that people wouldn’t want to leave.
  When they realised that we were in danger of voting to leave it was too late.
  Obviously, people in the EU said that it was a bad idea but they obviously would say that because we’re “sending them £350 million a week” and they wouldn’t want to lose that.
  
  The UK spent decades convincing everyone that all bad decisions are made by the EU and all good decisions are made by Westminster. That's the first mistake.
  If the UK had properly educated its citizens about what the EU actually was and did, no remain campaign would've been necessary whatsoever. But it was politically convenient to have a scapegoat.
  And let's be honest, remain aka "remoaners" had a ton of arguments all the time. But brexiteers just wanted to enter the magical land where the UK still mattered and they'd eat their cake and have it still.

Everyone saw this coming but still decided to walk off the cliff rather than admit they'd made a bad decision
- "What we believe shapes who we are. Belief can bring us salvation or destruction. But when you believe a lie for too long, the truth doesn't set you free. It tears you apart."
  
  I spent the first twenty years of my life believing that every piece of gum you swallow stays in you forever 🪦
- Pootin and the GRU/IRA were behind the effort mostly waged on social media
- Yes this analysis was clear as day even before the referendum passed. The only amazing thing here is that 10% still think it has helped. Wow.
  
  10% is actually amazingly low. I've said it before, 25% of any population, any country and time period is dumb as a bag of rocks. So no matter what you'll always have 25% mouthbreathers. Here even 15% of them realized they've been had!
- Around 35% of the total population actually voted for it, and even then, those people weren't the ones who decided to push forward despite it clearly being a shit show.
  Blame the people responsible, I'm so sick of this lazy "everyone" blanket statements people make about events that have very specific individuals and institutions to blame, all it's doing is literally letting them get away with it.
  
  Mmmmmm no. This is the justification many trump voters used. It implies voters are completely off the hook for the consequences of their actions and it's only the 'scheming criminals' who fooled them that can be held accountable.
  Just as ignorance of the law does not get you out of your speeding ticket, allowing yourself to be fooled as a voter doesn't absolve you of the poor choice you made with your vote. It's a collective fuck up. Own it.
  
  That was clear too, but Conservatives still won a majority and expectedly squashed any chance of a second referendum. We can't absolve ourselves of all blame when democracy is still a functional tool we have at our disposal. Now even democracy itself is under attack all around the world, and I'm afraid that "not my fault" mentality will become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
- I wouldn't say everyone, at least. The vote was actually very close, which I think is something most of us forget at this point.
  They used the wrong kind of referendum given the seriousness of the question, it should have required a significant majority consensus, instead it was just a "who got more votes even if it just one more".
  The results showed a deeply divided nation, and we still are. Some brexiters do regret their terrible decision, but I don't forgive them. There was ample information, experts, everything showing what a terrible disastrous idea Brexit was, and they voted for it anyway.
  This wasn't some shades of grey issue, it was surprisingly black and white for once, haha. Which makes it all the more strange that so many people still voted to deeply damage the nation and their own futures.
  Oh, and one other point just because I think we often forget, the referendum wasn't at all binding. The government could have simply said "We've taken your thoughts into consideration but decided to do what's best for the country and stay in the EU, even if this will hurt our political careers. Our duty is to the nation, above even our own careers".
  They....did not say that :-( Instead they got theirs, at all our expenses.
- Actually only half of all people saw the obvious downsides. The other half said "nuh uh it'll be great, way better in fact" with no evidence or facts and folks went with that.

All of the last decade, and most of the last 2, has been calamitous for Great Britain. Brexit is just one on a list of crippling blows dealt to its population.
NHS, gone
Home ownership, gone
Europe, gone
Education, gone
wages, gone
environment- going
civil rights - going
With no prospect of any of them coming back .
All sold to neoliberalism.
- The NHS, wages and civil rights were all on the chopping block of the Tories for decades, and people still voted for them in droves.
  
  Because across the board big and little "c" conservatives place money/profit above all else.
- But at least the immigrants have all disappeared! Right?!
  
  It's funny cause I'm here as an imigrant but leaving cause the place is going to shit. So, success?
  
  Ironically one of the only ways forward for them is to open up immigration to more people. GDP is going to be permanently lower unless they go heavy automation like Japan (requiring a lot of capital that is going to be a lot more expensive post-Brexit), or let a lot more people in.
- Has neoliberalism done anything good or just a way for fucking over everyone but the rich?
  
  Mostly the rich thing.
- Margaret Thatcher is smiling up from hell.
- NHS stands for National Health Service.
- To be fair, a lot of places have these exact problems nowadays.

Completely failed? That is just not true. For Johnson's co-conspirators, who lied and swindled to profit from Brexit, it absolutely caused the desired shifts in wealth - that is from everybody else into their own pockets.
- There is no better friend to have than the kind that can provide millionaire consulting gigs and non-executive board memberships in thanks for writting the laws with them in mind when replacing EU legislation and regulation.
  Mind you, I'm not saying this is Corruption: the only part of the Judiciary that can investigate and prosecute Corruption in the UK is the Serious Fraud Office who have about as big as budget as the tinniest of British city halls (i.e. Councils) so nobody but the small fry ever gets investigated, much less prosecuted and convicted, so there are no people one can say are corrupt in the UK without falling foul of the local Libel Legislation (which is quite extreme by European standards) as they're not officially corrupt until convicted.
  It's a special country with a special system, hence the continue deca, and whilst Brexit stands out as a trully primo inter pares of specialness, something like this happenning is no surprise.
  The honest and intelligent britons (of which there are many) need to start pondering more on the possibility that when you keep getting the same ailments and treating them only for more appearing, the actual problem might be an underlying disease rather than merelly the ailments themselves.
  
  What a bunch of honourable* honest* innocent* businessmen*.

Just like most informed people predicted.

You should go crawling on your knees and beg the EU to take you back, and farage, rees-mogg and boris should pay for the entire thing.
- My hot take: the EU is better off without them. Britain has always been a belligerent holier than thou obstacle to progress for the EU, even after they got a sweetheart deal that NO OTHER European nation got offered.
  Let them rot on their island while the rest of Europe actually makes progress.
  
  Yup. If the EU takes them back, it should be with HEAVY scrutiny and no sweetheart deals. You wanna fuck around? Time to find out.
- All the while being pissed off that no, you won't get all the exceptions you had the last time. And yes, you'll have to ditch £ for € eventually.
  there's a pretty stupid loophole that allows you to postpone adopting Euro indefinitely, though I feel even the fact that officially they're agreeing to adopt the Euro will be a low blow for the pride of UK people.
- That’s like a couple getting married again after a divorce. It HAS happened, but only when both people are lost together in a world of mutual crazy that neither can live outside. I don’t think the EU is participating in the Uk’s fantasy world, so it’ll never happen.
  
  Nah. The honest truth is that the EU doesn't care that much about the UK.
  It's much more like someone storming out their local pub and refusing to come back. It's a big deal to the guy that left, but a much smaller deal to everyone still drinking in the pub.
  If the UK stops acting like a dick and pays for their share they'd be eventually welcome back, once it looked like they'd actually learnt their lesson and wouldn't do it again. The real barriers to rejoining are on the UK side. No one wants to reopen that can of worms.
  
  UK had one of the larger militarys in the EU. Only reason I can see them ever considering it.
  
  I think your analogy is not a 1:1 representation of the situation at hand.

Gives middle finger to biggest trading partner by far.
Surprised Pikachu face when economy goes to hell.
I cannot fathom the thought process of the Regrexiters.
- It makes sense when you frame Brexit in the context of "we don't like brown people". They weren't thinking about the economy. Never were.
  
  Kinda. A lot of them had this very strong opinion that they were basically an economic powerhouse and were actually better off without the trades that were lopsided against them. They're learning how trade power actually works.

IF the UK rejoins the EU at any time in the future, we will certainly never have the preferential terms and disproportionate power that we'd originally had. Defacto not as good as a deal. However, STILL much better to be part of the EU than to be circling the drain as we are right now.
- I am still furious about Brexit on a personal level. Freedom of movement was amazing. It meant that I could just decide to go live and work in an EU country whenever I wanted. I had previously used this to spend a couple of years in Spain and maybe a year in France. I'd been planning a move to Portugal when Brexit took this away from me. All those opportunities gone because of dumb fuckers who didn't even realise we had them. Ignorant bigoted wankers. Goes without saying I voted remain. I'd be delighted to rejoin, and if it means we adopt the euro that's fine with me. It won't happen for at least a decade though, and at my age that'll be too late for me.
  
  No, they realised that they had the freedom of movement. The Brexit vote was in part to punish people like you because you still had that freedom.
- And getting rid of the unfair preferential terms is good for the EU as a whole, because it will reduce resentment in all other current and potential future member nations.
  Don't get me wrong, I absolutely believe Brexit hurt everyone in Europe and I can't wait to welcome UK back into the Union, but make it on equal terms. It's a very small silver lining to the whole fiasco. I just hope it doesn't take too long for UK to find a leader string enough to say "I think we made a mistake, we should reapply". Make a new referendum while the populace still realizes the connection between Brexit and the current misery before some populist schmuck finds a new scapegoat.
  
  Agree completely. The old arrangements were compromises to get the original deal dome. That was half a century ago and a lot has changed.
- To me, I never understood the desire to leave. Even the people who being talking heads for Brexit actively benefitied financially from UKs position in the EU. The choice to leave was roused up on a bunch half truths and bold face lies to scare the the general public of hatining anything south of the channel... Despite getting so much benefit.
  Smartest thing they could do is beg their way back into the EU and claw back what ever benefits they had enjoyed like stated above there is no scenario where UK ends up good as they were back in 2016 let alone in a better bargaining position, but they also don't have to throw away their future prosperity based on stubborn pride.
  
  It's hysteria.
  but they also don’t have to throw away their future prosperity based on stubborn pride.
  Lol, but they will.
- I think it's best for the EU if the UK doesn't have preferential treatment.
- Want it said that if the UK rejoined then they'd have to go on the Euro?
  
  If and when UK is allowed back in, this time they will not be offered all of the opt-outs!
  Welcome, Schengen and Euro!
  
  I'm not an economist, but what I have seen is the decline in the value of Sterling since Brexit as well of the downgrading of the UK credit rating. Even if we adopt the Euro, the value of the same goods will still vary between different countries. However, the same silly arguments will arise again saying that the is EU taking over.
  
  That isn't really an issue, either Denmark or Czechia don't want the Euro but said they'll get it so they skirm around the ascention criteria a bit. Can't see why the UK couldn't do the same.
- Everyone says this, but I think the EU wants Britain back in enough to make some exceptions again. The way I look at it is that it doesn't hurt to try.
  
  Eh, willing to bet that Germany wants to set a precedent that they, and no one else, like France, can just leave and rejoin on a political far right whim.

Imagine voting against Scottish Independence then getting fucked out of the EU immediately afterwards by Brexit.
- Britain is Europe's America.
  Europeans would be wise to distance themselves from them.

- You say that but people still want to vote for Trump. This kind of jingoistic populism is doing pretty well right around the globe right now
- Some wanted to be spiteful. Not sure to whom though

It sounds like cooperation works better than unnecessary contention. Who would have guessed.
- The ruling class, which is why they fight cooperation among workers.

No shit, Sherlock.

No fucking shit.
I’m still in disbelief at racist ignorant Tory cunts that voted for this.
Fuck them and their political apathy.
Fuck them and their complete disregard for factual information.
They can now lie in the bed they made, the absolute fools.
- Murdoch holds a lot of the blame as well, without that prick taking sides in his newspapers it would never have happened
- I hope you can all work to get Tory shit out of your government
- And fuck the fucking fucks!! Fuck you, you fuck! You BIG fuck! You massive, whopping, FUCK!

9% say it has benefited the NHS
Are 9% of the UK shareholders of plantir or something? Cunts!
- I don’t understand why it’s a fucking opinion poll when there is actual data to examine.
  
  Why not both? A well-designed poll can be a very useful gauge of public opinion.
  
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  Facts don't always say what you want them too. Options can easily be curated for on the other hand.
- I don’t understand why it’s a fucking opinion poll when there is actual data to examine.
- I think that people tend to take just one or two reference points to decide things like this because it’s too complicated to consider them all.
  The points that might have led people to believe that the NHS was improved by Brexit are that we were told that leaving the EU gave us the ability to approve and buy the COVID vaccine more quickly and that we did seem to get it more quickly than the EU.

Somebody fucked around and found out.
- Founding Fathers of America version: Someone founded around and fucked out.

Oh gee. Who coulda seen that coming, huh?
Glad it happened, though. The total clown show of Brexit very quickly shut up all the Anti-EU trolls.
- Oh gee. Who coulda seen that coming, huh?
  Only 48% of the country...
  
  And something like 80% of the rest of the world (No source, made it the fuck up :))
- Reading this in a Minnesotan accent. Ah jeez! Who coulda seen this coming, ha, hon? They really, well, they shot themselves damn near in the foot, didn't they now? Don'cha know the Eurapeans want to help you now, but these racists ya see, racism always gets in the way of peace. That's what my mother always said.

Hey UK, Come back into the safety of EU's warm bosom.
- I'm not an expert on foreign affairs, but from what I understand, UK got kind of a sweetheart deal to be included in EU originally.
  I doubt very seriously they will get such a sweet heart deal next time, since they are proven an unreliable and fickle partner.. and thats on the pretense they are allowed back in at all.
  
  They would absolutely get allowed back. They were one of the most important economic and military powers in the EU.
  But you are absolutely right in the whole "deal" thing. No pound, yes Schengen, no national exceptions, no fishing great deals and of course, EU military is a must. No more veto to the joint military for sure.
  After that is clear, they would be allowed back for sure. Maybe they can keep the password as a gesture.
- The UK can apply and get in line like the others, which should be long enough for UK laws to be EU-compliant, no special treatment.
  Scotland should secede and apply first, though.
- But in more equal terms, not with all the special exemptions that were present under the previous terms.

I mean, a lot of folks who voted leave are probably dead by now...
Those who voted remain knew this was coming, and still get to live with it.

I genuinely asking for some education on Brexit, because I personally thought, and still think it was a terrible decision for the nation, but I am hoping to get a better understanding from real people and not just read articles. I know I can research it, but would like to hear personal opinions/thoughts/etc….
I am a UK citizen, but I was living my teen and mid adult life in Australia. I didn’t get to vote on Brexit as I was not residing on the country at the time, and never thought I would return. Circumstances have changed, and I have now moved back to the UK at the beginning of the year, so I’m in the thick of the Brexit mess now. I can’t comment on what life was like before Brexit, but I am now a citizen of its consequences.
From my limited understanding, and what I really need clarification and advice on is;
Brexit was a campaign point that David Cameron ran on for election. When he won, he called the referendum, but he was opposed to it. Meanwhile, the Brexit campaign was in full swing with lots of misinformation, but Cameron only decided to rally hard in the leading three months up to the vote, failing to properly educate and explain the deal to the public.
The vote was close. Somewhere in the 52%/48%
Cameron stood down
Brexit happened, finalising at the end of 2020
I know there’s a lot of nuance, and I know I’m missing a lot of major information, but is my understanding the very basic gist of what happened?
Thanks for any response
- From a continental EU country, I can tell you that Brexit was a shitshow from beginning to the end. The Leave campaign was clearly helped by the same Russian bots that helped Trump get the US presidency. Then, May added confusion to the shock and frustration. People kept saying lies, like it is possible to keep the common market benefits while cherry picking which regulation to follow. Then came Johnson and his lunatic demands, like creating an independent judicial body that would rule any future disagreement on the deal between UK and the EU. Then the constant whining and bullying about fisheries and goods transportation. The UK had been a beacon of hope, heart and decency for the whole 20st Century. Brexit has made it a sinister clown in Europe.
  
  Thank you for comment. These points you mention really illustrate the absolute clusterfuck it has become.
  Annoyingly, I believe in democracy and can’t get angry that it happened. It went to the people. The people voted. But damn it was a joke from the beginning, full of lies and deception. Sadly the UK citizens are suffering from this, but hopefully things get better sooner. I’ll always be the eternal optimist.
  
  Calm down with the good old times, India gained its independence in 1947.
  
  The fishing thing is a good example of how Brexit was handled. Fishing has been stirred up by the media for decades causing some strong feelings against the French and Europe. While fishing is pretty meaningless for the average person it became important because people who read certain newspapers thought it was important. That, to me, seems like the backbone of Brexit. Shite from newspapers.
  I'm convinced all the talk about fishing was to stir up these feelings in the public and use it to the politicians will. Raising it with the EU was a message to the people that their concerns are being addressed. Illusion of the people having power.
  Speaking to people who voted to leave I had answers like fishing given. Other answers were that people didn't like talking orders from Brussels, that was more common than fishing. Some racist comments (some REALLY racist). And one person claiming after Brexit he will get gold capped milk back (apparently the EU banned his favourite milk, and that alone was worth leaving the EU...). I know a few people who didn't know what to vote for so went with the "default" to leave. I'm assuming they meant they just followed the crap in the news and didn't apply proper thought.
  This media bollocks is still happening now. I saw the other day an article about being able to buy wine in pints. Sigh.
  It really was a shit show and still is!
  
  I was with you till this.
  The UK had been a beacon of hope, heart and decency for the whole 20st Century.
  You drop this gem of satire in between your serious post
- You mentioned Cameron seeming to be a bit limp in opposing it and actually campaigning on it originally. Some interesting context
  https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/apr/07/david-cameron-offshore-trusts-eu-tax-crackdown-2013
  
  Thank you for the article. The more I learn about it, the more fucked up it truly is. I had a basic understanding of bad it was from a simple perspective, but the more you learn, the more messed up it becomes. I really hope there is something good to come from how monumentally messed up the situation is.
  I’m getting used to GDPR regulations in my line of work I haven’t had to deal with… primarily with how my industry uses AI transcription for media. We have to be very careful with which transcription services that reside outside of the UK are used. so if for example, we use an S3 based transcription service in the cloud that is based in France, we might come into issues, even though they might be GDPR compliant. It’s all a bit of a mess, but once you know what to do it is okay, but to cut through the red tape to get an answer can be laborious because so many people need to agree to the request
  That’s just one little thing, out of hundreds of impactful changes because of Brexit. It really was a ballsup
- Yeah, that's about right. And now the Brits are paying the price.

Absolutely everyone thought it was a bad idea... Except Britton
- A lot of Britton did too. There was a lot of advertising and I think Russia had a hand it too.
  
  Where is Britton?
- *Except a third of britland

I thought I read that outside of London that the average income for the UK is lower than the average Mississippi state resident (poorest state in the US statistically; still has debtor prisons)
- It probably makes more sense to use median income. Sometimes a few rich people "raise" everyone's average income.
- Well yeah, they're literally peasants.
  Inb4 some peasant gets mad that I would say that they belong to a rural lower socioeconomic class by birth with less legal rights than their "betters."
  
  That's kinda accurate actually.
  One of the biggest problems with Britain is that everything is centralized around London while other cities and towns are an afterthought to the government.
  London is the only city with an underground railway network. It is also one of only three cities (Newcastle and Glasgow being the others) with any kind of metro transit network. Public transport outside of these three cities is heavily overpriced and monopolized at a local level by a handful of big bus operators, i e. First, Stagecoach, Arriva, Go Ahead.
  Another massive problem is that we simply aren't building new homes because doing so would harm landlord profits. Londoners are moving further out because London is so overpriced.
  Things are so bad here that Bristol (the city I live in) is now the second-most expensive city to live in behind the capital. Before that, the idea of us overtaking SE England or even Bath was unthinkable.
  
  What do you mean literally peasants?
  
  There's probably tens of thousands of brommys and mancs which earn more than you.

I still wonder why they made that referendum happen in the first place.
- A lot of Rubles
  
  I don't get what you mean by "rubles"
- The Tories were afraid that the Brexiteers would split off from their party, and the "first past the post" would kill them off. So they thought that showing those Brexiteers that their idea had no majority.
  So now they will be killed off by FPTP in 2024. Helped them lots, and killed the countries' future.
  
  Ok.
- The Tories were scared of the rise of the right wing UK Independence Party (UKIP), particularly their leader Nigel Farage. In order to try to stop losing voters to UKIP David Cameron (the prime minister) promised a referendum on EU membership thinking they would not vote to leave. It back fired, he resigned, and the shit show began. The vultures descended to make political and monetary opportunities despite the damage it would do to the country.
  
  The vultures descended to make political and monetary opportunities despite the damage it would do to the country.
  This is the tl;dr of every capitalist nation in history.
  
  The vultures descended to make political and monetary opportunities despite the damage it would do to the country.
  This is the tl;dr of every capitalist nation in history.
- For short time political gain in a deal with UKIP and because they were sure nobody would vote leave.
  
  Darn.
- Power grab and racism
  
  Wasn't it more xenophobia? The word racism is thrown around so much it has almost lost all its meaning. Most of the immigrants were white.
  
  Yeah it's well earned. Enjoy, Brits.
  
  Why racism though?
- Pride and racism mixed with delusion. A significant amount of British people think they're better than everyone else and the EU was lucky to have them.
  
  Finally, some useful info.

Populism = idiocracy
- America - "Hold my beer. I'm going in for Trump round 2" lol

Admitting you're wrong and acknowledging evidence is project fear, correct? Am I doing this right? Tories?

Lol. Toldja.

Ok they had their fun. Can they rejoin?
- I'm not even Bri'ish and I would vote for that. Europe should laugh at them hard then throw in the rope and let them climb back into the boat before they proper drown.
- I think they should be allowed to rejoin with concessions.
  I truly believe they need additional punishments to ensure something like this does not happen again.

Strong "Leopards eating my face" vibes from the voters...

No shit, when all those who benefited from Brexit absolutely made sure to see that damn trainwreck go through.

Well it certainly sucks for Britain but it is great for the EU. Britain was not making the EU better they were dragging it down.
- How so? Honestly asking.
  
  By virtue of having a disproportionately beneficial EU membership agreement, they actually caused friction with later EU members that received the standard agreements later on.
  It's hard to overstate how catastrophic the UK fucked up by leaving the EU. They joined on the bottom floor, had the leverage to negotiate a deal that gave them more benefits, let them keep their currency instead of promising to one day adopt the Euro, and had access to all the immigration controls they needed to deal with the 'problem' Tories perceived.
  It's incredible, really. Part of me still can't believe they tossed all of that away. It's got to be one of the biggest peacetime geopolitical fuckups ever.

Oh no... Anyway...

Better late than never. Kind of.

This is the best summary I could come up with:
A clear majority of the British public now believes Brexit has been bad for the UK economy, has driven up prices in shops, and has hampered government attempts to control immigration, according to a landmark poll by Opinium to mark the third anniversary of the UK fully leaving the EU single market and customs unions.
The survey of more than 2,000 UK voters also finds strikingly low numbers of people who believe that Brexit has been of benefit to them or the country.
Just one in 10 people (10%) believe leaving the EU has helped their personal financial situation, against 35% who say it has been bad for their finances, while just 9% say it has been good for the NHS against 47% who say it has had a negative effect.
James Crouch, head of policy and public affairs at Opinium, said the perception of Brexit being handled badly and having had negative effects on various aspect of UK life appeared to be spreading: “Public discontent at how Brexit has been handled by the government continues, with perceived failings even in areas previously seen as a potential benefit from leaving the EU.
“Half (51%) of Leave voters now think that Brexit has been bad for the UK’s ability to control immigration, piling even more pressure on an issue the government is vulnerable on.
“This shift in sentiment may be particularly stark among the ‘red wall’ voters who rallied most eagerly to Johnson’s banner four years ago, but have been most exposed to rising bills and collapsing public services since.
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I find it even more uninspiring since it happened right at the time of a Covid. Even those who wanted it now hate it.

Well obviously it was a failure and always was going to be a failure. Whereas before there was frictionless trade, travel, employment, living, there is now an ever expanding wall of bullshit and red tape. Getting goods to and from Europe is subject to import duties and delays that just kills trade - why would a Spanish company buy widgets from the UK when a supplier in Germany can supply them faster and reliably without any customs redtape?
It will take the UK years to form other trade deals, none of which will be remotely as favourable as they would get with negotiating power of the entire EU behind them. There have already been noises in the UK press about having to take food from the US which would fail EU standards - bleached chicken, GM crops, growth hormones etc. And that's because when the US comes to the negotiating table they're going to bend the UK over and screw them. And China, India and the rest of the world will be lining up for some sloppy seconds.

Why did the British owner class allow for this to happen? Have there been any big privatisation efforts after Brexit? Did they hope the NHS would crumble?

Whilst I firmly believe Brexit was fucking dumb, asking this question of the public seems impossible. How can someone reflect on their finances and say how Brexit has affected them when there is a soup of turmoil impacting personal finances. Energy, wars, COVID, global inflation are also to blame. I think if anyone looked at their personal finances and compares them to 3 years ago with a question prefaced as "Brexit" is going to be steered to saying they are worse off.

Worst decision ever. Jeez.

Next up - Water found to be wet!

I wish there was a Texit in the US.

okay but like 6 dudes were able to avoid paying taxes, which was the real, actual point of brexit
conservatives always ruin everything

It's a shame the "clear majority of Britons" have shit all to do with it, and brexshit happened for and because of a handful of people, who are not going to go back on their plan to make themselves richer and have fewer people to answer to, even if 99% of people voting in some poll want them to..
It's about time people get it through their heads that we are never going to be given a better world by those who are holding us hostage, we are going to have to take it.

I think we were always told it was going to be bad before it got better.
I wasn't old enough to vote for Brexit at the time (just under the voting age), and I likely would have voted for Remain had I had the chance, though it feels a little unreasonable to judge the outcome of the Brexit decision just yet.
- Okay but when should the outcome be judged then? What would it take in the future to decide Brexit had been ultimately successful?
  I'm an outsider looking in, but it seems like it's directly failed in some ways Brexiteers promised success (NHS funding), created a complicated customs situation with Northern Ireland, and done nothing of obvious benefit. For it to be successful in the future something needs to change for the better, and I'm not sure what would.
  
  We are in a more resilient position outside the EU than we were inside of it; we are dictating our own laws, we are becoming more stable by no longer relying on immigration to fill in the gaps of our job market, no longer reliant on foreign aid.
  In the short term, of course this is painful. It's withdrawal symptoms. In the long-term, it means that the UK will stick around for longer, regardless of whatever turmoil our neighbours get into.
- Since it sounds like you don’t have much experience with how conservatives work, here’s a tip:
  It’s not going to get better.

didn't this pass by referendum not executive action? and doesn't that mean the people wanted it?
also, if we judge everything by it's ability to help our finances then we'll destroy ourselves, our communities, and the planet
if they change their minds, they should have a referendum and re apply to join the EU if it passes. otherwise, this is just noise
- No, the referendum was non-binding, it was passed by executive action.
  
  David Cameron, who was against it, and therefore the will of the people, resigned because of this referendum.
  It would not be good to pass a referendum and then have its result ignored by executives. What would have been a better outcome? Exercise democracy and then ignore the results??
  I'll say it again. If the people of the UK want change they should do another referendum, see if it passes, and if it does: apply to join.