Brexit

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JRPGfan said:

EnricoPallazzo said:
Im disappointed. Its been years already and there are still medicine at the pharmacy, food at the supermarket and the super ghonorreia outbreak havent happenned yet. And pre covid 19 uk economy was pretty much alright with record low unemployment rate while everybody said it woukd bebfacing the worst recession ever. The city would be dismantled and all banks would run away.
There must be something wrong...

Theres a transition periode until dec 31st 2020.
UK is currently enjoying the same rules and laws, its had since it was a member of the EU.

Its first from Jan 1st 2021, that your expected to do things your own way.
Also why do you suspect there will be shortages of medicines? and foods?

WTO rules will apply, and you ll just have to buy them at slightly higher prices.

DirtyP2002 said:
The Brexit will be a huge step for Scotland. They will vote to become independent and join the EU.

The EU is not perfect, but a united and free Europe is the best idea we have ever had.

UK alone just does not have the possibilities to negotiate with China or the USA on the same level.

Look how this current trade war is going. Sure, this is mostly between China and the US right now, but Europe was affected as well.

Any counter trade tariffs by the UK would just not matter on the big picture. But when the whole continent is acting together, it will have an impact. The UK just let that go.

US has already made it clear, it will bend over the UK in trade negotiations. America 1st! Not just a empty slogan with Trump.
China? well after the "uk hong kong citizenship" thingy, china probably isn't feeling too generous with the UK.

Food and Medicine shortages could happen, but for a specific reason: Currently the UK has only very limited infrastructure for customs checks. But once the transition period is over, everything would need to be checked at the borders. Unless the UK severly ramps up the infrastructure and workforce there stante pede, then imports will have to wait longer at the borders until the checks are processed and will pile up and get delayed as a result.

As for UK's trade deals and how easy they thought to get them, it really seems like they still believe they are that giant british colonial Empire that they were 100 years ago. But they don't anymore, and are much, much, much weaker than they think they are. Hence why most countries don't have new trade deals with the UK yet