TBF to Chopley (and whilst i don't agree with his end of the world Guardian naysaying): economically, there's very little benefit to Brexit to be seen, quite the opposite and there isn't even a road map to get to the promised land. But, equally, it was never just a vote on fiscal policy and you'd be pretty naive to think otherwise.
Living with someone who works for a company in export/import they complain about it but it's nowhere near the doom scenario painted by some but, again, equally, wondering: why?
This is the thing though pinnit, it's fine to have opinions about exactly where Brexit has landed in some regards, and yes, the jury is arguably still out on some aspects of it, but as you very rightly state, there is literally no plan whatsoever to get us to where the 'good stuff' might be. (And indeed no evidence to suggest good stuff is even on the horizon.)
I simply don't understand, like, my brain fails to process on a fundamental level, the idea that 'owning the libs' or 'seeing Remainers cry Remainer tears' makes any of this shit worthwhile, if someone is calibrating their happiness based upon how sad another human being feels about something, then that's a fucked-up state of affairs. I don't want to see unhappy people, because it's not nice to be miserable, so why find joy in the sadness of others?
I've said this before but I'll repeat it again, if Brexit had turned out to be a towering success, and Leavers could point to all the stuff it'd made loads better, I'd be the first to put my hand up and say, 'Fair play folks, I fucked up, you got your Brexit and it worked out well, good job', to be clear about this, I thought such an eventuality was massively unlikely, to the point of being a near impossibility, but it was a scenario that could have played out.
And here's the other thing, if Brexit works out and is a success, then it's a success for the UK, the UK does well, UK citizens do well, we all get better off and live in a more prosperous and successful country, and yes, if you wanted to stop those small boats coming across the channel, you got that too. (So why wouldn't even me, as a Remainer, want it to be a success? I don't want the UK to fail, I don't want the UK to be weaker.)
But literally none of it has happened.
And somehow we find ourselves in this bizarre Twilight Zone where dunover reports back every year on his ability to buy fucking carrots from a multi-billion dollar supermarket chain, and the only other measure of 'Brexit Success' is how sad other people are feeling about its utter and complete failure.
The Brexiteers got everything they wanted, the hardest possible Brexit short of a complete No Deal scenario, and here we are on the cusp on 2023, and all they've got is 'LOL you're sad and that makes me happy'.
Way to go guys, you totally nailed this one.