Only one in 10 feel leaving the EU has helped their finances, while just 9% say it has benefited the NHS, despite £350m a week pledge

Only one in 10 feel leaving the EU has helped their finances, while just 9% say it has benefited the NHS, despite £350m a week pledge according to new poll

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 poll by Opinium to mark the third anniversary of the UK leaving the EU single market and customs union.

The survey of more than 2,000 UK voters also finds strikingly low numbers of people who believe that Brexit has benefited them or the country.

Just one in 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.

  • oce 🐆@jlai.luEnglish
    102·
    11 months ago

    Calm down with the good old times, India gained its independence in 1947.

    • HenriVolney@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      5·
      11 months ago

      With a bloody war after the Brits left. Meanwhile, most countries had a go at dictatorship (Italy and Germany of course but also Spain, Greece, the Vichy régime in France,…), East Europe was under Soviet rule, France had a colonial war in Indochina, another in Algeria…

        • HenriVolney@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          21·
          11 months ago

          Talking about governmenst. Surely you’ve heard about East German political police, the crush of Prague’s uprising, the brutal rule of Ceausescu

      • oce 🐆@jlai.luEnglish
        32·
        11 months ago

        Brits and any other colonial power who randomly cut land according to their greed have huge responsibility in wars following decolonization.

        • HenriVolney@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2·
          11 months ago

          Absolutely. Colonization in Asia and Africa occurred mainly in the 19th Century though. Look, I am not trying to say that the UK was a country full of angels doing God’s work. I am pointing the fact that comparatively to other European countries, it kept a strong democratic trajectory during the 20th Century, often doing better than its neighbors. Damn, it was the only country in the world resisting the Axis countries during 2 years