deptfordmarmoset
Über Member
Well, Brexsquit politicians obviously, investors who bet on foreign industries and currencies.
Who else?
Who else?
Brexit Winners: who were they?
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Rusty Nails
Country Member
Another exercise in pointless futility, I am afraid.
Xipe Totec
Something nasty in the woodshed
Those people, plus I'd include those who think the negative consequences for themselves are a price worth paying for the ongoing distress and damage dealt to those who they want to see 'got'. I think there are a lot of those people. An awful, awful (literally) lot.
The Chinese? With a weakened Europe and continued Chinese economic growth and the influence this brings a smaller EU and isolated if not weak UK is not a good thing. The Americans seem to me to be on a path back to at least partial isolation, so Europe cannot remain a protectorate for ever, and will have to put its own house in order.
Moodyman
Member
Doubt the Chinese or the Americans benefit from Brexit. The Chinese would rather deal with one entity in Europe, usually Berlin, rather than multiple governments.
The Americans too. They particularly liked the UK in with one foot because they had a friendlier (puppet) government to veto EU schemes detrimental to the USA.
Now...the Russians. Well, they'll benefit from a fragmented Europe. Germany has long wanted a less confrontational relationship with the Russians, to the consternation of the UK and US. A departed UK weakens the EU and means Germany and France set the framework of things.
Archie_tect
Active Member
The world's leaders seem to be intentionally increasing hostility... have the G20 decided who and where to have it in order to sideswipe mounting concerns about climate change...
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deptfordmarmoset
Über Member
I had Putin's Russia as the main winner through the weakening of European institutions and any vestige of solidarity on the continent.
I didn't see China as gaining much - I have them as wanting to make their money by trading with rich nations and nothing in a fractured Europe will add to the riches.
mjr
Active Member
Yep, Vlad was top of my list of winners too, after Boris who gets his 15 minutes of fame as PM, followed by decades of notoriety for his team's lethally inept handling of covid.
Oh I don't know. Some shortsighted nation on the edge of Europe which has undermined its own energy security and squandered fossil fuels without transitioning to renewables may beg China to install and operate nuclear kit and even guarantee an inflated price for what it generates.
(Go on, admit you expected that to be about Bradwell B and Sizewell C.)
The Crofted Crest
Active Member
A beef about Brexit. Someone must have been telling porkies. Butchered from the Graun
Meat processors in Great Britain are having to export carcasses destined for domestic consumption to the EU because of the shortage of skilled workers. Beef producers are exporting carcasses to Ireland for butchering and packing before the products are brought back to Great Britain. Pork processors are looking into shipping pig carcasses to the Netherlands to be butchered. The move was aimed at preventing a widespread cull of healthy pigs on farms because of a lack of capacity at abattoirs and meat processing plants. However, 10,000 of the animals have been killed so far and the cull continues. One problem for pork producers is that any meat exported to the EU for butchering would not be allowed to be labelled as British pork when reimported to the UK for sale. The move to export meat for processing will cost an additional £1,500 for each lorryload of carcasses.
Meat processors in Great Britain are having to export carcasses destined for domestic consumption to the EU because of the shortage of skilled workers. Beef producers are exporting carcasses to Ireland for butchering and packing before the products are brought back to Great Britain. Pork processors are looking into shipping pig carcasses to the Netherlands to be butchered. The move was aimed at preventing a widespread cull of healthy pigs on farms because of a lack of capacity at abattoirs and meat processing plants. However, 10,000 of the animals have been killed so far and the cull continues. One problem for pork producers is that any meat exported to the EU for butchering would not be allowed to be labelled as British pork when reimported to the UK for sale. The move to export meat for processing will cost an additional £1,500 for each lorryload of carcasses.
Lilliburlero
New Member
Me, I voted out and since the result I wake up every morning with a big smile on my face. 
BoldonLad
Old man on a bike. Not a member of a clique.
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Oh, I suspect a few Hedge Fund Managers and old Rees Mogg will have ensured they are "in clover", but, as for the rest of us, I agree
Rusty Nails
Country Member
Me, I voted out and since the result I wake up every morning with a big smile on my face.
Because of the benefits we have seen so far?
Should be easy to share them with us.
We could all do with something to make us smile.
