Comments by "Paul Aiello" (@paul1979uk2000) on "" video.

As a Brit, I actually consider the UK and US democracy to be some of the weakest in the western world with its first past the post, mainly two party system and regional groupings which tends to ignore a lot of our votes. The EU isn't perfect but I have more faith in them then I do in the UK government with everything they've been going on the last 5 or so years. As for Scotland and Northern Ireland, a true democracy wouldn't have any issues with them having a voice on if they want to stay or leave and in fact should be able to have a voice at their choosing, clearly thought, we've got Westminster trying to dictate terms and block a referendum in Scotland and you have to wonder how would the Brexiteers react to that if the EU did the same to the UK on the Brexit referendum, I think they would go ape, but then the EU is a lot smarter than this current UK government.
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True, in a sense, the EU is having it's cake and eating it and it's a clear sign that the UK needs the EU a lot more than the EU needs the UK, hence why EU goods can come into the UK much easier than UK goods going into the EU, basically, the UK government realized that we need many of those goods from the EU market whereas the EU countries can source elseware. A big part of that is because once the UK left the EU, we not only have restrictive access to the EU market on our door step, but we've also lost all the EU free trade agreements as well as bilateral agreements around the world, that's put the UK in a bit of a pickle when it comes to the economy, hence why the UK government is desperate to sign any free trade agreement it can, the problem is, it's all well and good signing a deal, it's another thing to get a good deal, this is where things are going wrong in the UK, we're signing too many deals that are very much in the favour of other countries and mainly because other countries have a much stronger hand against the UK now and are taking advantage of that. The end result is that the UK is signing worse deals around the world then the EU can get and that will have a negative impact on the economy longer term and that could also be a big reason why Brexit regions are actually trading more with the EU now then they did before Brexit happened which is making the UK more dependent on the EU market and it's easy to see why, we've hardly got any trade deals around the world and the ones we do have are not that good. Brexit has just been one big mess that is harming the UK and longer term is very likely going to harm living standards.
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@john70689 You had a lot of control over it when we were in the EU, the UK choose to not use any of those powers. The reality is, Brexit had nothing to do with immigration, it was a power grab from the UK government in wanting to past things into law that they couldn't do whiles in the EU, basically, lower standards in many areas which could very well filter through over the years and decades now. Also, at the start of this year, some new tax laws came in the EU, the UK government was desperate to leave the EU before that law came in and mainly to enrich the rich elites in governments. Brexit has been one big con that doesn't serve the British people but serves a select few rich individuals and unfortunately, that message isn't going to sink in with the Brexiteers until a decade or two later when things are much worse.
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For Putin, Brexit has been by far his biggest success story over the last decade, he wants to split the west and especially the EU so he can get what he wants, he knows a divided west and Europe is easier to take advantage off, the UK fell right into that trap and mostly because of the right wing media. As for the cost to the UK, considering Brexit has only started, the cost has been pretty big in a short space of time and the worse thing about it is that the cost of Brexit is mostly a long term thing, which doesn't bold well for the UK with how damaging it's been already and things could get much worse for the UK if Brexit ends up pushing Scotland and Northern Ireland to leave the UK union which I would say the chances are 50-50 of that happening over the next decade and the more this Tory lot stays in power, the likelihood of them leaving goes up as the Tories are fuelling the independence movements.
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