There's no punishment of UK from EU. UK is just treated as every other non-EU country. If you are used to EU privileges and you are losing them by leaving the EU, it may feel like punishment, but it's just the life outside the EU.

The only country in history that actually imposed tariffs against itself.

Being treated by the EU as a third country is the UK'S own choice not a punishment by the EU!

The EU is NOT punishing the UK. We simply do not care about them.

So... the EU is punishing the UK, by giving it exactly what it asked for. It couldn't be that the UK had four years to prepare for leaving, and made _no_ preparations.

Brexiteers: "we don't want to be in the EU!" Also brexiteers: "the EU is treating us as a non-EU country! That's unfair!"

An error: Boris Johnson was actually all in favour of remaining in the EU, until he realised he could get to power with the Leave campaign. He switched sides early on, to devastating effect. He has become seen to be a major part, if not THE major part, of the demise of the British economy, stability and political discourse over the recent years.

The British got what they wanted and what they voted for, they are out of the EU, they can negotiate their own treaties and agreements with around 194 countries and they can take care of the immigration issues related to these countries themselves. Of course they don't have preferential access to the EU internal market and they no longer have freedom of travel within the EU, but that's what they wanted. These are the benefits they wanted and got, but there is no punishment from the EU. You have voluntarily terminated your Clug membership and are now surprised that you can no longer use the benefits of club membership. Find the mistake

One thing needs correcting - the UK government did NOT apply the safeguards included in the EU directive on Free Movement designed to ensure citizens of other EU states would not become a burden on the UK. And that is something that Caneron kept coming up against when he did his round of EU capitals prior to the Referendum seeking a better deal for the UK. Why are you not applying the rules already in place he kept being asked - he had no answer!

*My Perspective on Brexit* I used to buy most of my things from Amazon and eBay UK. However, after 2020, my orders started getting stuck in customs for weeks with heavy fees to pay. Consequently, I shifted my purchases to Amazon Germany. And that’s the end of the story.

EU is a package deal, and single market is part of it. You can leave EU, but then you will leave the common market, as well. It's simple as that. EU isn't punishing UK, UK is punishing itself. But that's your right, of course.

I don't see a betrayal by the EU.

The point of Brexit was deregulating the financial sector. Despite the government's assertions of wanting to improve economic competitiveness through Brexit, their real aim was to enhance competitiveness and regulatory efficiency in the financial sector. They chose to ignore the fact that post-Brexit deregulation in the financial sector, alongside a fragile economy lacking decades of public investment, would lead to the disastrous consequences Brexit Britain is facing right now.

No, the UK was not one of the first ones to enter the coalition (EU). It reluctantly joined the EEC because the trade alliance it created with Sweden, Denmark was not fulfilling expectations. The UK was ALWAYS half in half out.

If you leave the prestigious golf club and stop paying the membership fee, why do you expect the club to let you play for free or even bother to spend any time punishing or even thinking of you when lots of other wants to be new members?

The EU isn't punishing the UK. When EU citzens decide what goods or services to spend money on, cost and quality are still what they think of first. There is no 'secret' mechanism whereby the European Commission is delibrately stopping purchases of UK goods and services.

The one thing the EU is certainly not doing is punishing the Uk for leaving. What the Uk is currently experiencing is the start and only the start of the consequences of leaving the EU. The negotiations such as they were as far as the Tory party was concerned were not meant to give the Uk special status, it threw that privilege away when it chose to leave, They were to smooth that leaving sufficiently to prevent economic shock that could have driven an already shakey economy over the edge because the government was fully aware of the consequences of leaving the EU in terms of restricted trade and travel. The problem was they had not told the people about this or the extent of the loss they would incur. They kept very quiet about it all choosing instead to spoon-feed it in small palatable portions and with each new traunch of restrictions infer that this was not the fault of the government but of the EU and yet all of it was clearly written down in the form of rules and regulations about the operation of the Single Market and the Customs Union. Rules and regulations the Uk had once had a larger part in defining and had happily enjoyed the protections of for years. Rules and Regulations they had now chosen to have used against them. Those that wanted Brexit lied and deceived the people of the Uk by first not educating them about the EU making it easy for them to gaslight the population into walking out of the Union. Second, they could have explained to the people exactly what leaving actually meant to them personally. They did not, worse still they tried to build a smokescreen to prevent them seeing it at all and finally they used their own democratic system against the people by claiming that Brexit gave them a mandate to leave when it did no such thing. The Brexit vote was nothing more than an opinion poll, it placed no charge on the government to act at all. The mandate only became apparent when the Tory party won the next election on that ticket after months of bombarding the people with the message that leave meant leave and then using every political trick in the playbook to prevented any form of meaningful debate on the matter and having a weak opposition led by people who covertly wanted the Uk to leave the EU it became a done deal even before the due date. Can the Uk ever rejoin the EU, Possibly in years to come that might be possible but for the foreseeable future with no political or public consensus on the matter the answer must remain no, the Uk can not rejoin the EU, it can negotiate for better access possibly under EFTA but it will then come under the scrutiny of the rules of the Single Market regarding an area of legislation the government and its financial backers would much rather the public never be allowed to understand, it is a subject a lot are aware of buy no one dares mention it for the ridicule and scorn that they are subjected to in the Tory client media for doing so but if we are to make any progress on this matter the Uk is going to be subjected to those rules and regulations and it is going to have to comply or pay the price in hard cash. If you know then you know of what it is I speak and you also know that it was the reason behind Brexit in the first place.

It won't implode but it's making a lot of things unnecessarily difficult and people are missing lots of opportunities. Farage and his mob have a lot to answer for and no politician has the spine to address the situation.

The EU is not punishing the UK it is dealing with it the very same as every other third country, but been british they have to blame the EU for their own failures. The uk was not one of the first EEC countries

I'm from the US and I can certainly state that it is possible for people to emotionally vote against their own best interests. Particularly when those interests are exploited by the political class. Basically lies. What you going to do now?

The UK did the EU a HUGE favor by leaving as they have become a lesson on what happens to your economy when you do. Recall at the same time the UK was talking about leaving, Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain were also talking openly about it? You dont hear them mention it much anymore do you? Funny that.

EU/Brexit is simple to explain, if you know the history. 1) EEC (pre-EU) was formed to stop the centuries of fighting between France/Germany by joining their fates financially 2) gear 1 was a Free Trade Area, where EEC members agreed to not levy tariffs on each others products 3) gear 2 was a Customs Union, meaning that goods could enter the free trade area from any of the memeber states 4) gear 3 was EU, where non-tariff barriers (regulations and standards controls) were removed by harmonizing them between member states. 5) UK was allowed to join after lots of resistance from esp. France, because they knew UK would benefit greatly 6) UK joined and financially benefitted hugely from EU membership as well as getting special perks 7) Hubris and greed ("we are doing great because WE are so great, not because we are part of one of the largest trading blocks in the world") took over in Britain and decades of blaming the EU for underinvestment in UK society (a choice that the UK did to themselves, see Piketty) finally boiled over in the EU referendum. As a result, the UK trade gear vs. EU area dropped from 3 to less than 1. Customs, tariffs, food health checks ... everything is re-instated as it was before EEC. Its basic math: if goods are checked and customs paid at border, speed of commerce drops 10x. You can disagree on politics, but border checks are like gravity, it'll eventually pull you to earth no matter how you pretend to be flying while falling. ( Editors note, before you go down a loonybin path as per response below : Europäische Wirtschaftsgemeinschaft 1957, check wikipedia)

"We just turned our back on a huge market , why aren't we richer?" - British idiocy

Lets all laugh at the leavers. It was obvious to most of us outside of the UK what would happen, after they left!

And many European emigrants were qualified in various jobs and did not ask for support from the government.

You say 'in hindsight' leaving the single market would have a negative impact on the economy, but it wasn't hindsight. It was predicted by the remain campaign, and dismissed by the leavers as 'project fear'.

It was not 52% voting to leave and 48% voting to remain. Leave 17million, remain 16 million but 13 million did not bother to vote and 18 million of those entitled to vote were not even on the electoral register! Voter apathy is the big issue.

Never did the UK fully follow the rules of The Eu when they were members of the EU, but now that the UK is not a member of the EU it must follow the rules of the Eu and also the rules that say that each country of the EU is an individual country to import to for non-members. Is it a way to punish those how leave? No, but those how ask for the butter and to bed the wife of the merchant also.

Boris Johnson thought Britain could just pull out the channel tunnel and swim away. Turns out being part of Europe without being part of the EU (or at least close enough to have free trade and immigration) is a lot like being far away from Europe, without being close to other countries in return. The pandemic has ended, but Britain is still self-isolating.

Im a norwegian strongly opposed to EU membership, and even I can se how deeply dumb and unresponsivle brexit was...

On that last comment. There is no punishment going on. Some in the UK dreamed of being able to get a deal with all the good stuff without any obligations. Such a deal would be suisid for the union. Of course you have to give it you want to get. It was just dreams, overconfidence and lies.

I have been watching the Brexit news since early 2019. It was all just so surreal. I would expect a former Empire to have a measure of awareness of international politics, but reality disabused me of that notion.

If you leap off a cliff while claiming the rocks below don't exist, it isn't a punishment from the clifftop for leaving when you splat like a ripe tomato.

2016: UK: When we leave, we'll have all the benefits of staying, because the EU needs us more than we need them! EU: No, you'll become a 3rd country. US: End of the queue. UK: We'll see about that! Rule, Britannia! 2021: UK: OK, we might not have all the benefits, in fact, we'll have none. But no matter, we'll trade all over the world, that'll compensate for it. NZ: Can't wait, ha ha! :-) 2024: UK: Where's my unicorn? Why are you so meeeeeean?!

Brexit was the first time in history when two countries or entities decided to sit down to make the prevailing trading situation worse after those discussions , best of luck to the UK in their journey wherever it takes them they cant blame anyone now hope they never re-join the EU is better off without UK .

I don't think it will implode. It would probably just slowly follow the history of Portugal and be a poor European country.

The European Union was called European Economic Community. The UK joined in 1973, the community was created in 1957.

Give northern ireland back to the Irish.

Making it over 50% vote on such an important thing should of been 60% at leased

By holding a referendum, Cameron threw the entire country under the bus to try to solve an internal battle in the Conservative party over our membership of the EU. He gambled. The country lost.

Smart people just like stupid people have stupid ideas all the time. Brexit was a stupid idea. Having a 'hard Brexit' made it even worse. Trade is the lifeblood of nations. The EU always puts international trade first, internally by abolishing trade barriers and having the same standards, and externally by having long standing beneficial trade agreements with as many markets as possible. The UK is simply lacking the knowhow to do regulations and trade agreements on their own, and lacks the international weight that the EU trade block provided. 'But, now we don't have to obey EU regulations anymore' you say? Well, next to those regulations being sensible and beneficial for quality, health and safety, many countries already follow the EU regulations when exporting, and GB has to follow them when exporting to the EU. But, but the Commonwealth? The EU has the most free trade agreements in human history, the part of the Commonwealth that don't have trade agreements with the EU will not make up the difference.

There were 759 different agreements signed by the EU on behalf of the member states with 168 countries. 295 concerned trade, 69 fisheries, 65 transport, 49 customs and 45 nuclear issues. UK did not join any "free trade area" when leaving EU. It would have to renegotiate all its tradeagreements with the rest of the world. With EU it got the TCA wich is not workin very well since it excludes services. Since first of January 2024 a transition operiod ended and UK has no longer passporting rights of financial services into EU. In 2025 EU will have moved out all the Eurodenominated clearing bussines to othe financial centers. The current trade agreements UK has are 68 rollovers of EU agreements that have to be renegotiated in the future and three agreements with Japan, Australia and new Zealand and they were all worse than what UK had as a member. All the quotas UK had as an EU member, for dairyproducts for example, were gone. They stayed in EU and were split up between memberstates. That is why Japan did not want to expand its quota for cheese and neither did Canada.

EC is not European Commission, but European Communities... The European Commission is the executive branch of the EU

Fun thing is UK got a special status in the Eu. Didn't need to change its currency dindt need to sign shengen, exports more to the market (that is tax free) then it imports. If it wasn't ok with some policy (making new rules) it just have to say NO. Rejoining (I hope not) will be a huge shock. There will be no exceptions anymore.

Britain has a chronic negative balance of payments, i.e. it imports more than it exports. BoE numbers used: Compared to the average rates for 2015 GBP is down 15% versus EUR, down 17% versus USD and EUR is only down 3% versus USD. Therfore , regarding a lot of its imports the UK is in a higher cost situatio than pre Brexit. Apart from the evident slowdown in physical trade the migration from the CIty of euro based transactions like clearing and derivatives has hardly begun. Brexit isn't a guillotine. It's slow death by a thousand cuts..

How is Nigel Farage still on TV is beyond me

totally sad for the british people! imagine voting representatives into office & then being forced to make an uneducated vote about the future of your country.....ofc it cant go well! what are these "politicians" even for, if not to make educated decisions for the future of the country?! cant say we germans miss britain, but its still sad, to see a country mess up this bad & leave the most united europe in history, just to fail THIS HARD!

So you think U.K can leave E.U while keeping benefits it had while being part of E.U? That funny . No

I dont hear them bragging now 😂😂

Brexit was not the largest voter turnout in the UK, it only got 72% turnout, 75% is normally recognized as a minimum threshold for a referendum to have validity. This was one of dozens of lies parroted by Leave supporters after the referendum.

The EU is such a powerful economy that however hard a Brexit the UK got they were always going to be in the position the Brexitists thought they were in. I.e. having to pay into the EU and obey EU rules but with no say. Prior to leaving the UK had a great deal of power over the rules and most were introduced to fulfil the ambitions of the single market that was designed by the UK in the first place.

How could Britain think that it could make better deals with EU members from outside the circle than inside it?

When the video gets confused over EC (European Commission, a governing body) and EEC (European Economic Community, the precursor of EU) you know the content is pretty low on information.

Brexit is the best thing that could have happened to the EU. I hope the UK never comes back.

I never thought Great Britain would become as economically as miserable as Argentina

The UK was so poor in the seventies. I hope you’re all happy with the result.

Treated as a third country, not punished. The UK is not trading with the EU but individual countries with their own trading rules. Some similar some not. The UK messed its own bed and brexshiteers need to admit they got it wrong as a first step to recovery.

How big is the latest black hole in UK finances? 30 billion or so? It doesn't look as if anything is getting better. Ok inflation seems at a low right now, but it is certain to pick up in Autumn, but then it could be Labour's problem, right?

One of my EU citizen friends is a doctor, who misses the days when they could cross the channel to work a weekend in a UK hospital for a truly exorbitant pay cheque. The casual weekend shifts they were doing aren't being given to a UK resident now, because the UK doesn't have enough doctors. Those shifts are simply not being covered, so the quality of health care in the UK has dropped. Those shifts won't be covered until the UK either trains more of its own citizens to be doctors, or starts letting non-UK residents enter the country at will to do highly paid professional work again. Does anyone see the UK training a whole lot more doctors?

The benefits will take awhile to become obvious. Not long to go now.

I totally agree. Brexit has never been about economy. It was about protection of the 50 trillion trust fund business and the personal needs of a handful elites: Arron Banks, BoJo, JRM, and not much else.

The EU did not punish the UK. The Brits punished themselves, becoming the first country ever to impose economic sanctions against itself. That's why the now universally accepted logo for Brexit is a man pointing a gun at his foot.

The real twisted thing was that Britain was openly encouraging other countries to leave the EU.

This was one of those decisions made based upon emotion, not reason. Now, with hindsight, the British people can see how wrong-headed it was. Maybe there should be a trade union with the U.K., U.S., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. At least we all share a common language and similar cultures.

I've learnt absolutely nothing from this video

(10:20) Fact check: Pre-EU, the UK was part of the EEC, (European Economic Community) not the European Commission, which is the EU's politically independent executive arm. This video really sucks. 👎

So, Cameron had the referendum thinking it would go his way but it didnt. I can hear the voice of sir Humphrey: -A rule of politics is never put the future of your policies in the hands of the voters, especially if you rely on their implementation for a smoother term in office.

May I just add that the difficulty we have exporting to the EU is experienced by every nation outside the EU. And, every industry within the EU is finding that it's harder to get the materials they need to grow their business. The result of this "fortress Europe" mentality is that growth across the Continent is stagnated. And if you check the adjusted figures for economic growth for mainland Europe, it's been flat for 30 years. So much so that in Spain and Italy, whole villages are literally abandoned. The failure of the EU to support growth had a dramatic effect on youth unemployment, and the rise of the far right in Spain France Austria Germany Greece Hungary Poland and even The Netherlands. I worked in the UK hospitality industry for decades, and it was my privilege to work with and employ some of the brightest, most motivated, skilled and hard working individuals you could ever hope to meet. The sort of people who would literally cross a Continent to find a job to maintain their self respect and make a life. And the sad part is, THEY HAD TO. Because there were no jobs in their own countries for these supremely talented people. I was employing University graduates, and specialists in multiple fields as bar staff, waiters, house keepers. People who by any measure really should have been high flyers. I look at Brexit as a sad necessity. I've studied Economics, and I'm well travelled. I'm NOT xenophobic, and I deplored the tactics and lies by the Vote Leave campaign. Because they weren't needed. There were many reasons, good reasons to leave, based not on hatred, but pity. Pity that Brussels' Gravy Train Politics is so out of step with the needs of the nations that look to it for guidance, and a plan to grow the market, NOT as is the case currently, to protect it to death. Until the EU fundamentally embraces change, cuts waste, and supports global interests, we are, I respectfully submit, better off out of it. Unfortunately, the team we entrusted with guiding us out of European Single Market, and into the global market were 4th rate twits, and I will forgive anyone who confuses their stupidity with an apparent error of judgement by the electorate.

This is so obviously AI generated.

The EU is NOT punishing the UK. The EU always respected the decision, no matter how stupid it was. The EU always worked hard to make the divorce possible, no matter how painful. The EU now says, we always work with UK as they are old friends.

Everyday as an EU citizen I look at the Unicorn Kingdumb and I laugh my head off

@1:41 The youngest prime minister to be appointed was 24 years old William Pitt the Younger on 19th December 1783.

This script sounds like it was written by AI. I miss the old days of KZfaq when content had a more personal touch and was less corporate and unsourced.

"Truth" involves fact checking before releasing. Relevant video synchronisity would help too🤔

My small Dutch company has essentially given up on the UK market. We made it much harder for customers, and we are just finishing off our stock there. Its not worth the hassle. We'd rather find new customers in France, Italy, Poland, and other east european countries.

What kind of NEW rules are in place for the UK that don't applybto any other third country,?

I feel sorry for those who wanted to stay and got i worse. Bur for all the others: you've got exactly what you wanted.

"How long," 🤔 can the answer be a negative fraction?

Look, just because the US voted for T and shot itself in the foot, does not mean you have to say, "hold my beer! We can do worse!"

I dont think the EU is punishing the UK. This is just the predictable logical consequences.

Primer; Empty video for U.S. and beginner consumption only. No one who knows about the situation need to watch this.

10:15 „…since it was the EC - The European Commission.“ 🤦‍♂️

The preparation of the UK citizens to leave already happened earlier in this century. For years leading up to the referendum UK politicians blamed the EU for everything that wasn't popular with the public, and everything that was popular was of their making. I wasn't surprised the people voted to leave, as they were groomed to think negative about the EU. Credit where credit is due.

It was criminally negligent to have a referendum on leaving without the slightest hint of a plan for what to do if the referendum passed. They should have negotiated an exit procedure BEFORE the vote on exiting.

UK's loss is our win in the EU. Thank you brexit.

I really hope they stay out of the EU for good, the UK arrogance is unbearable.

This analysis rewrites history. Cameron would not have won a 2nd term had he not headed off a drift of Tory voters to leave partys by promising a referendum. However, to convince voters to then vote remain he would have had to give them the home truth that the UK was no longer strong enough economically to leave without a long-term negative impact. So, instead he send out a booklet to every house putting the case for the benefits of staying, but not the real consequences of leaving. The public did not read it anyway, and took the easy dramatic gesture politics option of supposed self-determination which in reality meant imposing sanctions on their own economy.

Given that the 2016 referendum was a narrow 53/48 it boggles the mind that there wasn’t a second referendum after the leave agreement had been reached between the UK and the EU.

This is a dishonest representation

"betreyal" label on the EU?? dafuq is that for a thumbnail? We never asked anyone to leave.. Youre free to go do whatever you want.. But dont point fingers plz. We didnt vote you out. you did

Is there some reason why New Zealand can function as an independent nation but the UK can't?

I see no reason why the UK will not continue to decline. I'm sure the best graduates will still be welcome to work in the EU, and the rest of the world, whilst the number of oportunities in the UK decrease.

Congratulations. Brexit benefits has finally arrived. Thanks to Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson

We joined, and then we left. End of, I'm absolutely sick to death of hearing about it.

8 years since the vote. How long do we need to wait ? Nice that we're not even talking about Europe in this current general election . 60% of foreign nationals I worked with weren't from the EU . I voted to leave as this was simply unfair . Added an extra layer of unaccountable bureaucracy. knew what I was voting for and never regretted it.

Yikes, the amount of wrong in this video is simply staggering. Cameron promised the referendum as a way to stop voters defecting to UKIP, and to keep ERG on side. Cameron championed the remain side, when he lost the referendum his own party suggested he'd step aside to let a leave politician handle the exit. EU has set rules for countries to withdraw, so that was never in question. The actual separation wasn't until about early 2023, depending on how you want to view the Trading and Corporation Agreement, Brexit isn't really final yet. Covid 19 didn't hit UK until 2020. And that is when I stopped watching.

Some really stupid mistakes, EconomyTalk: 1. You talk about UK salaries (paid in pounds) while showing a man counting euros 2. You say “British PMs” (Prime Ministers) while the text shows MPs (Members of Parliament) 3. You talk about lower profits for UK businesses and you show a pile of euros. 4. You say that in the 7ties the UK joined the EC, the European Commission. This didn’t exist yet. It was the EEC (European Economic Comunity)

Actually Brexit has failed.

The benefits of Brexit would always take decades (setting your own trade deals that benefit your country not 27 others, not paying in £11bn/year etc), the disbenefits would be almost immediate. The loss of the ability to work anywhere in the EU for British citizens however is a big loss.

truly fucked themselves with brexit, they will never have as good of a relationship with europe again