Comment on UK clothing sales to EU plummet as Brexit red tape deters exporters

• Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Care to elaborate? How exactly did they benefit?

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  • rah@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They’re no longer citizens of a country which is a member of the EU.

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    • HowManyNimons@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And that helps them how?

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      • Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        They really owned the libs there, didn’t they?

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      • CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        We’re free from stupid shit like mandatory free warranties on electronics, or chicken that doesn’t taste like the physical incarnation of sadness, or fresh vegetables where you don’t have to throw half away right after you buy it!

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      • rah@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        For a start it means that the structure of the government better reflects the concerns of the population. The EU never really made much of a dent in the consciousness of Britons. I expect the number of citizens who knew the name of their MEP off the top of their head would be dwarfed by the number of citizens who knew the name of their MP. Compared to continental countries, particularly Germany in my mind and possibly France, the EU, EU parties and MEPs are very much present in the minds of the electorate. At least, that was my experience.

        Also, in my view the EU is quite undemocratic. The separate Council, Commission and Parliament are an affront. Especially the fact that the Parliament, which represents the electorate, does not have the power to introduce legislation. The people are an inconvenient afterthought in the EU power structure. I’m afraid I can’t find a link right this second but somewhere I have a copy of an interview with Yanis Varoufakis when he was finance minister for Greece back when they had their economic meltdown where he says that he was told by others around the halls of EU power that “the people” should not be given the power to decide economic policy. That, to me, is the EU.

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