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Originally Posted by Carth

It certainly wasn't Brexit that caused Covid to be the shitstorm of the century, no amount of extra paperwork, custom control or different passports stopped that decimating the UK (and Europe).

Covid was the big crunch in 'homeworking' which led to office closures and empty city centers, the same city centers devoid of customers for the entertainment, hotels, and food/drink industry. We still haven't fully recovered from that, and many of those jobs that were lost aren't coming back because Covid caused such a massive change in lifestyles (as did the smoking ban).

How many small businesses went bust because they couldn't work during Covid, and how many of the larger ones still haven't paid back those 'Covid loans'. Lots of potential wiped out in a couple of years, and would have happened whether we were IN or OUT.

…. And that just proves how useless governments are. I remember there was a debate within government on herd immunity but in the early days of Covid, they didn’t know what they were dealing with in the absence of a vaccine. So they settled on lockdown. OK - fair enough and be wiser for next time.

But the consequences of lockdown were foreseeable yet no measures were enacted to mitigate what would become the work from home craze. The effect on city centres, the businesses that would be affected and so on.

It needed strengthening of employers’ powers to force people back into the office. But then, and not without reason, people were saving hundreds even thousands on commuting costs. So, if work from home was to work, employers would need rights to enforce productivity measures.

And so on. Now we are Broken Britain.