Do BRITS MISS the EUROPEAN UNION? | Easy English 177

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Producers of this episode: Mitchell Hargreaves, Isabell Hargreaves-Schmid

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[julianneheindorf]

Fortunately, the voices in Denmark who were talking about a Dexit have been throughly silenced. No one is talking about leaving the EU now.

[EdLeslie-hw]

I'm a Brit living in Austria. I came back to visit my family the thing I noticed (amongst a few things) was the lack of staff at pub restaurants. It use to be a night out and you had waitress serving you. Now apart from bringing out the meals you did it all, get the menu and your knife, fork and spoon then go back into the bar to give over your order AND PAY FOR IT. When I asked why the change the girl told me. A lot of the staff when COVID came they went back to their countries and because of Brexit they just found it too much hassle to come back.

[miguelmonteiro]

I got poor. Has been harder to get ends meet.
Every week I find at my local supermarket empty shelves.
I had complait about it and I was told by the manager that before brexit they had two big trucks delivery goods everyday. Now they just get one truck.
He told me "blame f**king Brexit".
My cat needs to take medication that comes from the EU. I had waited 3 weeks for medication to get delivered. I had to start buying 2 month supply every time I ordered it on line.

[kneil]

I'm a UK passport holder and I moved to France on 31st Dec 2020 to retain some of my EU rights.
I am very angry that many of my former work colleagues who voted for Brexit were Irish passport holders. They thought it was funny that they could vote but wouldn't be affected. One person in a different department was Australian, he was permitted to vote (for Brexit) then he went back to Australia.
Oddly over a million UK citizens living in the EU were not allowed to vote.

[amerikawoche]

Recently drove to Scotland from Berlino, crisscrossed England, and across the isle the folks we talked to had a real melancholy permeating their words. Beautiful landscape & lovely people, but there was much despair & longing to be elsewhere when I mentioned whence we came.
Hope it can eventually get sorted out.

[EnderGZ]

What people missed was many of those NHS millons from the bus we generated by the trade exchange with the rest of EU members. But much like rich individuals, rich countries tend to think they are the sole source of their own wealth.

[wimschoenmakers]

Nobody talks about all those Brits who lived in Spain or Portugal after retirement, and now kicked out of Europe. Imaging having all your savings put in a nice little Spanish house and having no house in the UK anymore.

[jeanjacqueslundi]

Some naive people in the comments saying "you can come back whenever you wish". No. It's fine to accept the UK back, but not under the same conditions. It would being a blatant disregard for every other country still in the EU.

If the UK would accept the Euro, for example, then maybe. Otherwise you are setting up a bad precedent for everyone that just shows contempt for the EU. Not that it's a draconian state or as an institution, that represents a GROUP effort....you can't just have members do a 180º arguing they lose their sovereignity etc...and not have ANY consequences.

[azounx]

1:55 I will never not find it strange when people use “Europe” to mean continental Europe. But then again I am from “Europe”. 😂

[klimtkahlo]

Brit’s always had a fun relationship with the EU, they never even joined the euro, some even struggle to perceive themselves as Europeans!!! I suppose many must already hold dual citizenship as retired people living in Portugal, Greece, Spain or Italy…

[lesleyrobertson]

Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 never wanted to leave. Wants to leave the shitty unfair union.

[klimtkahlo]

No one fesses up to having voted to leave the EU. Who voted then? Same scenario with Trump!

[pulchralutetia]

I'm moving to Ireland this year. So long suckers!

[GrahamHumphreys-el]

Funny how people forget how that every car manufacturer in this country went out of business while we were in the EU...

[kevinmarsh]

Interesting video and I agree with most of the points. True enough, we are living with the after-effects of Brexit 5 years on. However, the people interviewed were all from Brighton, a very cosmopolitan and eclectic city, a generally pro-EU place and not a 'typical' British town at all. For a more representative sample, it might have been better to go to nearby Worthing or Eastbourne too for example, for more extensive views.

[AndreiNeacsu]

The first step into creating a prison is to raise a fence for isolating an area on the pretext of keeping others out. The next step is control everything that comes in and goes out, and the third is to remove some of the freedoms and rights that people used to have. After these first three steps are achieved, then follows a decline in the quality of products and services, together with a decrease in safety standards.

[Roque-Cachamuiña-gswd]

I think we Europeans should make a monument to Brexit, "never have so few given such a great gift to so many".

[josephturner]

That first lady was right. It's even on tap now 😂

[antonioguerreiro]

oh well and there I was after 38 years of living in the UK, paying my taxes and obeying the law!!..thinking after that referendum I was to blame for the UK's problems, poor little old Bargoning chip me !! so I left for my own sanity and before I done some serious damage to the next gammon to insult me.back in Portugal and loving it...village of 7000 british THE IRONY !! and they are welcome!! STAY AWAY FROM THE UNION I DO NOT WANT YOU BACK !!!