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Brexit expectations and reality

that things would get cheaper and we'd be able to decide things ourselves so do you see that coming at any point that no you don't actually produce anything anymore yeah but now...

Course: Big questions in societySection: Life in Britain after BrexitSubtitles: en

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of the believing was

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that things would get cheaper and we'd

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be able to decide things ourselves so do

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you see that coming at any point that no

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you don't actually produce anything

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anymore yeah but now we can trade with

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people like Japan and the US freely and

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so we import all these chickens that are

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stuffed with

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chlorine yummy brilliant if I want to

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buy if I want a chicken I want to buy it

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locally that's grown locally not from a

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boat in from America that's

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frozen don't understand that those trade

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agreements that we potentially could

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have had with America or Australia India

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that they talked about they haven't come

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to pass and even if they do come to pass

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it appears that they're going to be very

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small and it also appears that certainly

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with America those trade agreements are

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going to be detrimental to our own

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Farmers how did Greeks treat you after

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brexit did you get a different response

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that you did when we were part of the EU

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no the Greek Greek people are absolutely

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lovely people I felt a little bit um

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like an outsider late at night at

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parties you do apologize to anyone yeah

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from the European Union like it wasn't

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me it wasn't it wasn't us we had

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absolutely nothing to do with it we were

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horrified

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cementing British stereotypes of

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apologizing oh I'm always saying sorry

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sorry if I go to Europe I Tred to make a

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point of letting people know that I did

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not

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