Only one in 10 feel leaving the EU has helped their finances, while just 9% say it has benefited the NHS, despite £350m a week pledge

Only one in 10 feel leaving the EU has helped their finances, while just 9% say it has benefited the NHS, despite £350m a week pledge according to new poll

A clear majority of the British public now believes Brexit has been bad for the UK economy, has driven up prices in shops, and has hampered government attempts to control immigration, according to a poll by Opinium to mark the third anniversary of the UK leaving the EU single market and customs union.

The survey of more than 2,000 UK voters also finds strikingly low numbers of people who believe that Brexit has benefited them or the country.

Just one in 10 believe leaving the EU has helped their personal financial situation, against 35% who say it has been bad for their finances, while just 9% say it has been good for the NHS, against 47% who say it has had a negative effect.

  • MasterInu@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    11 months ago

    I thought I read that outside of London that the average income for the UK is lower than the average Mississippi state resident (poorest state in the US statistically; still has debtor prisons)

    • Suzune@ani.socialEnglish
      5·
      11 months ago

      It probably makes more sense to use median income. Sometimes a few rich people “raise” everyone’s average income.

    • DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafeEnglish
      53·
      11 months ago

      Well yeah, they’re literally peasants.

      Inb4 some peasant gets mad that I would say that they belong to a rural lower socioeconomic class by birth with less legal rights than their “betters.”

      • Clbull@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        11 months ago

        That’s kinda accurate actually.

        One of the biggest problems with Britain is that everything is centralized around London while other cities and towns are an afterthought to the government.

        London is the only city with an underground railway network. It is also one of only three cities (Newcastle and Glasgow being the others) with any kind of metro transit network. Public transport outside of these three cities is heavily overpriced and monopolized at a local level by a handful of big bus operators, i e. First, Stagecoach, Arriva, Go Ahead.

        Another massive problem is that we simply aren’t building new homes because doing so would harm landlord profits. Londoners are moving further out because London is so overpriced.

        Things are so bad here that Bristol (the city I live in) is now the second-most expensive city to live in behind the capital. Before that, the idea of us overtaking SE England or even Bath was unthinkable.

      • soggy_kitty@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        22·
        11 months ago

        There’s probably tens of thousands of brommys and mancs which earn more than you.