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2022-02-10

Brexit Facts 4 EU 

"It was refreshing on the second anniversary of our official departure from the EU to see the UK Government finally getting round to putting out some communications material going beyond the glib statements we are all used to"

"To help readers see what more there is we thought today we would field our first eleven of additional entries to the list of Brexit benefits – and we’ll keep publishing more when we feel the achievements are in danger of being forgotten"

The list of EU financials for which we would have been liable is not trivial, but also not normally to the forefront of everybody's mind. None the less they would have constituted a significant drain on our resources, already hugely over-stretched by the Covid response.

Which reminds me - the UK was one of the first to access Covid vaccines (not everybody thinks that these were a good idea, but we got them done with much less fuss) and we were among the first to drop the Covid counter-measures (how easy would that have been if we were still wrapped in the warm embrace of EU politics and EU-supporting UK parliamentarians?).

Whilst we now enjoy a comparatively normal measure of freedom in the UK, we view with dismay the Covid restrictions still being imposed across the continent, and the resulting freedom demonstrations which now seem more or less continuous. 

So where would you rather be - UK / France / Germany / Italy / Austria ?