10 Years On From Brexit
The consequences were never going to arrive all at once. They arrived slowly. Quietly. Then all at once.
Ten years on, and I don’t think people fully understand the scale of what actually happened.
Not emotionally. Not politically.
Just… practically.
Because no one’s ever done this before. Not like this. Not at this level. And definitely not while already carrying the kind of system we had in place.
Then we added friction to trade. Quietly. Structurally.
Not in a way you notice overnight — but in a way businesses feel immediately.
And they did.
Some adapted.
A lot didn’t.
And slowly, businesses just started disappearing.
Not always dramatically.
Just… closing. Quietly. One by one.
🦠 Then COVID Arrived
And whatever resilience was left got tested properly.
Then everything else layered on top.
And that’s when it starts to become visible.
Your energy bill doubling.
Food creeping up every few months.
Services costing more but delivering less.
Taxes tightening from every angle.
🏛 The Deregulation Argument
Somewhere in all of this was the promise that we’d become leaner. Faster. More competitive.
Less friction. Less oversight. More freedom.
But freedom for who?
Because when you actually look at how that plays out — water, infrastructure, services — it doesn’t really look like efficiency.
It looks like extraction.
Costs go up.
Standards drift.
Accountability gets thinner.
Benefits concentrate.
🏥 You Feel It Everywhere
And it’s only when you step back and look at it all together that it hits you.
The scale of it.
Because this wasn’t a tweak.
It wasn’t a policy change.
It was a structural shift.
Done without a clear plan for what came next.
And we’re still living inside that.
Still adjusting.
Still absorbing it.