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

Lets be honest, nothing is really gonna change. There is a lot of grandstanding and the EU has an interest to stick it to the UK to scare other nations from leaving, but in the end all the countries benefit from trade and most likely will just sign new free trade agreements, after the whole issue has cooled down. As the first reply said, yes there might be some disruptions, and there definitely is a lot of fearmongering about the Brexit apocalypse, but in the end it will be business as usual. The UK has a lot to lose, yes, but European countries also have a lot to lose. For the UK, say its 50% of trade and for EU countries its 15%. But 15% is a big number and it will hurt them a lot, and thus everyone has an interest in getting along. And they will, it will just be a push and pull until the last moment and maybe a bit past it. Its a battle of public opinion.

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.