MSE Poll: How do you FEEL Brexit will affect your personal finances over the next few years?

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Poll started 26 March 2019
The UK's exit from the EU has now been delayed until at least 12 April. We wanted to test your gut reaction about Brexit and its effect on your pocket, rather than the specifics.Did you vote? Are you surprised at the results so far? Have your say below.
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When the vote to leave was announced there was a major drop in the value of GBP and it has remained below that level since. Just compare it to the EUR or USD just before the referendum and the values since then.
Just remember that we haven't left the EU yet and Honda have already closed a factory which means a loss of 3500 direct jobs and many more indirect jobs.
Once we leave (depending on the deal we get) we will certainly see a lot more businesses move abroad where they can save money. It's quite expensive to be located in the UK as it is and once other barriers such as import/export restrictions are in place it will be the final push to justify the move. This will then result in a lot of people losing their jobs.
It will be interesting to see how many people will still think its a good idea when they have lost their job and find it difficult to find another one.
You cannot argue this is the result of Brexit though - all manufacturers are under pressure due to the current global climate, for example Ford is planning cuts worldwide, and the process generally has been going on well before 2016
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/10/business/ford-motor-layoffs-europe.html
Anyone who believes that Brexit has not affected some of these closure decisions is being naive. With the additional tariffs to be imposed we would have to reduce the minimum wage, which would significantly increase the benefits bill, in order to even pretend to compete.
Let's face it if you can buy from a mate (read fellow EU member) at £1 & also buy from a stranger at £1 who are you realistically going to buy from. Not exactly rocket science is it?
Looking at the poll somewhat surprised me - from a risk analysis perspective, you're gambling a lot of perceived downside on very little perceived upside. Then again, it's only looking at it from a financial perspective, and there were plenty of other reasons people originally voted leave.
All that said, although I was pro-Brexit before (I don't vote, I'm not british, just living here) because the EU was going in a very bad direction. But now, with nationalism on the rise within European countries I think there is a chance for things to improve. Pressure from Visigrad countries as well as Italy among others means that the UK would have done well to have stayed in the EU, they would've been an important voice.
But this is inevitable, and let me just add that I am confident a second Brexit vote would yield the same result (most importantly because enough people will believe the will of the people should be respected from the 1st vote, and it is illegal to vote a second time around, that they would refrain from voting leave, and even if that's just 3-4% of people, its enough to keep Brexit going).
So stop whining, and pressure your elected officials to do the right thing and get a deal through, and for God's sake, to start real negotiations with countries that support the UK and their wish for sovereignty (Italy, Hungary, US, China, Brazil, Colombia, all want to make deals with the UK).
And yes, if the EU decides to impose a hard Brexit with tariffs, it might hurt a bit on the short term, but as the UK makes deals, they will suffer. The UK is one of the wealthiest countries in Europe, and all they want is to go back on the Lisbon treaty, before which there was plenty of trade between European countries. All this rhetoric is just to try to bully the british politicians into ignoring the will of the people, in favor of the elites in London who have profited most from an agreement that has affected the average person most.
You want democracy? Then respect the vote.