'Who the hell thinks Brexit is going well?' | James O'Brien on LBC

After a YouGov poll revealed declining support for Brexit, James O'Brien ponders who are the people who actually think it's 'going well'. He concludes that it must just be the Editor of the Times, Daily Mail, Telegraph, because 'unless you've got your head up your backside', you'll be aware of the 'continuing problems' the UK is facing.

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[KintokiSan]

Greetings from germany. I recently
had a conversation with a coworker
(also german) who said that
"it's great for britain that they
left the EU!". When I asked him
why he would say such a thing
he listed all his gripes with the EU.
I proceeded to educate him on
how brexit has been going for
you guys and asked him why all
the other members have expressed
no wishes to follow your example.
He did not know anything about
brexit and had no answer to my
question.
I have said before that history
will remember brexit as the
stunning application of the
dunning-kruger-effect to an
immense number of people
and I stand by that statement.

[ade]

My compassion for the conned evaporated away when they started acting petulantly with slogans like "You lost, get over it".
Revenge is said to be best served cold and I've been joyfully savouring the line "You won, get over it"

[daltonknox]

Those of us who witnessed Britain going down the toilet in the '60s and early '70s, to be saved only by joining the EEC, never had any doubt that Brexit would be a disaster.

[ThomasKing]

As someone who voted brexit, I admit it's been an unmitigated disaster.

[neiltaylor]

I would just like to relate a case study of the damage of Brexit. My wife and I run a fine jewellery company, employing 7 makers in the UK. We have retail sales globally and have wholesale stockists in the UK, Asia, Singapore, Australia and our major market in the USA. Since Brexit we have been dropped by all of our European wholesale stockists due to the Brexit imposed import tariffs and costly bureaucracy and red tape they have to deal with to import our work. Since Brexit we now have zero retail trade in the EU from our website, due to the taxes our often longstanding private clients now have to pay when our jewellery is delivered to their doorstep. Brexit has directly damaged British business. We are a small international company- our once nearest and most profitable market is now lost to us, and Brexit is why. We may now have to lay off employees in the UK due to loss of trade due to Brexit. The damage of Brexit to UK business is real, and cuts across all sectors. Brexit is economic suicide.

[clungebucket]

I'm a fan and promoter of underground rock and metal and we hardly ever see our European counterparts since Brexit thanks to the costs and red-tape involved.
A major European agency just stopped offering us all these incredible and eager bands overnight.... I'm absolutely gutted.
It's just another moment that tells me that the world is just getting further down the toilet thanks to bunch of selfish, bootlicking killjoys

[MrDesmondPot]

It is very upsetting how, within a generation, all of the great things our grandparents achieved were willingly thrown away by their spoiled children. The young will now have to clean up that generations messes. Not how a society should function.

[giacogiaco]

Many of the 33 million people who voted in the referendum googled...What is the European Union?... Makes me feel ashamed to be British...

[tonyhall]

I'm on my pink unicorn riding into the sunny uplands, mainly to get away from the stench of sewage filled rivers, streams, lakes and seas. From my hilltop I can see queues at the ports where lorries are waiting to clear their documents. In a layby I can see a red bus with faded words written on the side, "We send the EU £350 million a week, let’s fund our NHS instead”. The tyres have been slashed, the windows are smashed and bonnet is raised with smoke rising from where an engine used to be. I passed fields with unpicked fruit. So of course it's going well. 😄

[jackperry]

Don’t know what you’re talking about James, leaving the EU and having even less regulation around tax loopholes and business accounts is going fantastically well for a very small obvious group of people

[thomasrobinson]

My mother in Denmark sent my daughter a gift. It cost me £28 to get it.take that as a metaphor for all of the economy. The friction is tremendous.

[ybkseraph]

So more people in the UK believe the earth is flat than those who believe Brexit is going great ! 😂

[bowdencable]

"Compassion for the conned" has to evaporate at those who were conned because they are so dedicated to hating their fellow humans.

[rickatatastan]

Vladimir thinks it's going well. He thinks half of the EU will soon be re-joining a different federation.

[Kicklighter.A]

Who thinks Brexit is going well? Bankers who have just had their bonus cap removed?

[jeffjames]

"compassioned for the conned" ... You're a much better man than I am James. I'm still frikkin livid.

[acrodave]

2% of the population can easily dictate 'the will of the people' if they happen to own the vast proportion of the media.
People believe what the media tell them they believe; in this Democracy with freedom of speech they have no choice and dare'nt say otherwise.

[bereal]

And that is why she is a president and farage is in the aussie jungle. Case closed ✌

[DehnusNorder]

I always found it hilarious that after 200 years Napoleon finally got the blockade he wanted :P .

[VincentPeters-vsus]

Let's face it, the Tories should be awarded the Nobel Prize for Ineptitude. Alas, this is in common with Tory governance which also doesn't exist.