Name: Do BRITS MISS the EUROPEAN UNION? | Easy English 177
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What has the UK been like since we've left the EU?

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Trade is more difficult, travel is more difficult.

It's ridiculous how people actually survive, I don't know.

Often harboured ideas to move to Italy but...

A lot of staff would come over from the EU and that's sort of stopping now.

I think some would say it's a bit sub-permanent.

So I fell out with my eldest brother and I haven't spoken to him since.

Yeah, I hope he doesn't want to go anywhere.

Hiya, welcome to a new episode of Ease the English.

So today is a special episode as we want to find out what the Brits make of the EU.

Now Brexit happened a few years ago so I want to let you guys know what Brits think has changed since we left the European Union.

So what makes this episode super special is that other Easy Languages producers...

...are making the same episode about what the people in their respective countries think of the EU.

How has life changed since we left the EU?

You can't actually do anything anymore, everything's gone up in price.

It's given certain people the right to be even ruder about migration.

Any thoughts of ever moving to Europe has been made that much more difficult.

That was a small idea in your mind, do you think?

It's often harboured ideas to move to Italy but, you know, it's made that much more difficult.

Immigration was really weaponised at that time and it continued to be a real dog whistle weapon.

We don't really feel part of Europe anymore.

We feel as though we're a little bit isolated from it and you feel that way when you travel.

From my own experience I think you have to go through more hoops to get outside of England.

Yeah, sadly I don't think it's had too much of a benefit for us in general.

You're finding food prices are more expensive if you have foods from different countries, especially from Europe.

We enjoy a lot of different foods from around the world and you see that in the cuisine that we have.

No matter what you buy anymore, everything is just... and I can't see it going down.

Things just randomly happen, so everything will go on as normal and then suddenly they'll be like, oh, this is out of supply for something.

Maybe cost of food has increased, but whether that's due to other factors, I don't know.

I mean, maybe prices of food, but then is it because of Brexit? I'm not so sure.

Some of my friends I think have been affected by that.

We never saw gaps in shelves in supermarkets like we do now.

Like produce that comes from the European Union.

I've also noticed that recently we've had a lot of things that we couldn't get, like there was an egg shortage, but is that Brexit? Is that just UK politics?

I actually asked that question in one of the supermarkets and they said it's nothing to do with Brexit.

It's British farming. That's what they said.

I mean, there's been a cost of living increase, but I don't think that's because of leaving EU, but that's all over the world, is it?

We looked at going to Greece, Italy, France.

But then you see the red tape and the taxes that you have to pay and you can't do it.

Was that a desire of yours, maybe to work abroad?

You know, you need to get a visa to go and work outside of it.

I'm part of a technology company and even that is creating, even though we have technology cloud environments, we are now developing more what we call sovereign clouds.

So we have to ensure that each country or each region has their own cloud because of perhaps not trusting data leaving one country to another.

So I think, for me, Brexit has kind of made the whole of Europe a bit uneasy about sharing data more holistically across the world.

My sister, mum's daughter, lives in the Canaries, in Spain, in the Canaries.

Apart from that, though, as I was mentioning to you earlier,

I don't really notice it very much in my day-to-day life.

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So we're stuck. We've ostracised ourselves.

So that's why we've now taken the opportunity to buy a resort in Thailand, which we've just done.

We live over there, and it's probably... it's less than half of living here.

With a UK dog passport, I think it's very difficult to go abroad now.

It's expensive and it takes a lot of energy.

I think it takes a lot of time to get all the paperwork through as well.

It's annoying. It's expensive. I think it's time-consuming.

What was it that people were mistold on which hasn't come to truth yet?

I think maybe that, you know, if we'd have all this money for the NHS without immigration and that sort of thing, and I work in health care, and there's definitely not been a massive pile of money.

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