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what has the UK been like since we've

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left the EU absolute

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sh trade is more difficult travel is

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more difficult it's ridiculous how

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people actually survive I don't know uh

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Miss sold than I do and manipulated well

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often harbored ideas to move to Italy

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but a lot of Staff come over would come

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over from the EU and that's sort of

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stopping now I don't think that was

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factored in I think some of those Rifts

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are permanent so I fell out with my

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elest brother a SP him since he's got an

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EU passport I haven't so he's straight

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through the gates absolutely doesn't

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want to go anyway hi uh welcome to a new

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episode of easy English so today is a

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special episode as we want to find out

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what the Brits make of the EU now brexit

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happened a few years ago so I want to

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let you guys know what Brits think has

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changed since we left the European Union

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so what makes this episode super special

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is the other easy languages producers

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hello

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H oi H I'm making the same episode about

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what the people in their respective

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countries think of the EU let's go how

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has life changed since we left the EU a

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struggle okay you can't actually do

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anything anymore everything's gone up in

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price it's given certain people the

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right to be even Rudder about migration

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any thoughts of ever moving to Europe

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has been made that much more difficult

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that was a small idea in your mind you

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think yeah yeah yeah often harbored

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ideas to move to Italy but you know it

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make that much more difficult traveling

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to see family yeah in Europe immigration

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was really IED yeah time and it's

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continued to be a real dog whistle we we

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don't feel we feel part of Europe

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anymore we feel as though we're a little

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bit isolated from it and you feel that

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way when you travel from my experience I

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think you have to go kind of through

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more Hoops to get out outside of England

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yeah sadly I don't think it's had too

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much of a benefit for us in in general

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that you're finding food prices and more

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expensive you would if you have foods

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from different countries especially from

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Europe we enjoy a lot of different foods

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from around the world and you see that

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in the cuisine that we have it's just

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things are more expensive in general

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it's just back to jacket potatoes for

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exactly when when you say the prices of

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what everything food fuel electric fuel

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food no matter what you buy anymore

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everything is just and I can't see it

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going down things just randomly happen

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so like everything will go on as normal

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and then suddenly they'll be like oh

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this is out of supply for

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something maybe cost of food has

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increased but whether that's due to

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other factors

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I don't know price of food is has gone

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up enormously I mean maybe prices of

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food and but then is it because of

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brexit I'm not too sure do you mean like

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food and um yeah and I think medications

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as well um some of my friends I think

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have been affected by that and the

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availability of food we never saw gaps

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in shelves in supermarkets like we do

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now like produce that comes from the

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European Union yeah I've also noticed

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that recently we've had a lot of things

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which we couldn't get like there was an

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egg shortage but is that brexit is that

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just UK

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politics I I actually asked that

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question in one of the supermarkets and

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said there's nothing to do with brexit

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it's um British farming that's what they

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said I mean there's been a living cost

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of living increase but I don't think

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that's because of leaving EU because

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that's all over the world is it you see

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that's how little I follow we looked at

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going to Greece Italy France afterwards

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after we'd left after we'd left brexit

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um but then you see the red tap and the

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taxes that you have to pay and it's you

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can't do it was that a desire of yours

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maybe to work abroad or to it is yeah

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yeah has hindered my you know you need

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to get a visa to go and work out outside

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of it we rely on Europe a lot for trade

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um I'm part of a technology company and

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and even that is creating even though we

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have technology Cloud environments we

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are now developing more what we call

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Sovereign clouds so we have to ensure

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that each country or each region has

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their own cloud because of perhaps not

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trusting data leaving one country to

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another so that's made things hard and

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so I think for me brexit has kind of

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made the whole of Europe a bit uneasy

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about sharing data um more holistically

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across the world my sister mom's

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daughter lives in in the canaries in

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Spain in the canaries as a shame so

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that's that that kind of affects us

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apart from that though as I was

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mentioning to you earlier I I don't

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really notice it very much my day to-day

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talkie credits so we stuck we're stuck

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we've ostracized ourselves so that's why

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we've now taken the opportunity to buy a

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resort in Thailand which we've just done

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congrats live over there and it's

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probably it's less than half of living

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here with a UK dog passport I think it's

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very difficult to go abroad now you have

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to really plane we friends it's uh it's

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expensive and it takes a lot of I think

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it takes a lot of time to get all the

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paperwork through as well it's not just

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a oh we'll sort that out it's annoying

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it's expensive I think it's time

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consuming what what was it people Miss

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sold on which hasn't come to truth yet I

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think maybe that you know if we um we'd

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have all this money for the NHS without

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immigration and that sort of thing and I

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work in

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healthcare um and there's definitely not

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been a massive pile of money and um as

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well for Staffing um a lot of Staff come

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over would come over from the EU and

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that's sort of stopping now I don't

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think that was factored in and I also

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just think it's a great shame you know

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as well like um similarly the other way

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I would have loved to have gone and

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worked a Brad but now that's kind of

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more difficult you know so um yeah I

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think a lot of

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those maybe more vulnerable populations

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were sold something that just was not

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true the whole process of inspections

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and stuff is massively increased as well

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is that something that that you do with

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on in your personal life yeah so um I'm

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with a battery company and getting

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batteries in and out of the country is

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it's very it's yeah it's a lot more

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challenging now than it used to be maybe

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20 30 40 years ago we'd be good at

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making a go of it but I think we're not

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really the country we used to be so no

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not so industrious anymore we're not so

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industrious we don't really make an

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awful lot of things maybe in the car

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market that's about it yeah um but yeah

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I I I just think we're not the

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PowerHouse that we we were um for many

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years now we haven't been so we're going

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to struggle part 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 vote to leave what was the Fallout

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in Britain after brex did it unite us

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did it divide

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us yeah yeah can't carry on as as it is

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it's ridiculous even

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today still divided yep I think they

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people know they were missil after in

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hindsight how does the land lie now do

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you think we're more unified as a

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country now we're few years ahead of

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brexit or not particularly no I think um

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I think more people now would opt to

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join back into the EU if they could it

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didn't get better afterwards it wasn't

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like oh we've done that now let's all

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move on it still seems to be quite

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divisive issue do are we now more

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unified now that we're few years into it

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are we sort of those Rifts are permanent

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yeah so I fell out with my old brother

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since oh really yeah oh no I think most

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of I don't think that that's

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particularly unusual I think people did

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fall out with family members and friends

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and even if you don't fall out I I most

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of my family voted to leave the you

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European union and

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I as we go on and we have more and more

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negative impact and we're still not

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seeing any money being plowed into the

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NHS like we were promised on that bus

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mhm then I I I I don't tend to bring it

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up because it's it's not helpful to my

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family but I under underneath i' I I've

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just feel really cross with them I think

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some people still feel very much and

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they've almost doubled down on and

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especially anti-immigration yeah um I

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suppose recently I think there's less

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conversation about it it's you know it's

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just this kind of thing that every so

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often people kind of bring back up but M

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um yeah I don't know a bit of a mix I

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guess I feel really angry with the

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people that voted but I feel more angry

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with the people that persuaded them to

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vote oh yeah the lies the lie after lie

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after lie that people fell for that's

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what really makes me cost but then does

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this show you how divisive brexit

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actually is that we're still kind of

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attributing things bloody brexit

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absolutely I voted to stay in the EU um

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that's where I saw it yeah I I think it

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has been very divisive

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um and if a government suggested that we

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go back and try to join the EU I'd

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certainly vote that for that idea do you

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see the EU existing for very long do you

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think that it's realistic to join would

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you like to

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rejoin that's a good question um yeah

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difficult I think sometimes you've

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always got to kind of take a you've

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taken a step and you've got to make the

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most of what you've got um Europe has a

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huge amount of opportunity though I

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think and that's I think there's

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probably other ways you can have trade

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agreements with the countries maybe

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around that going back is probably too

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hard but I don't think it's impossible

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but I think we also W very happy with

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some of the things that Europe were

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bringing upon us as well at the time are

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people still wanting to go back do you

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get that feeling I think so yeah I think

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people still want would rather it was

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how it was before could you see a way

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back I hope there's a way back just for

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um like a younger generation Our nieces

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and nephews are struggling with all

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sorts of elements of not being able to

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be part of that so I I do hope

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especially being as so many of the

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younger generation weren't able to even

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vote in the referendum but it was

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actually directly affecting them what

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were the actual downsides to the EU from

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your opinion I think there was probably

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the I think the country F rightly or

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wrong there was a perception we couldn't

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control as much we wanted control I mean

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immigration probably played a big part

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in the in the decision- making and we

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couldn't control where the spending so

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we would put a huge amount of into

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Europe but we couldn't control where

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that was being spent great to have nice

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shiny new roads in some countries but we

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struggle with the kind of four roads

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that we have there were way more

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benefits to it um and I think it's

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people easily forget that you know like

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I personally really like having a

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mandatory amount of time off a year

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don't really want to get rid of that and

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that comes from the EU so personally I'd

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like to stick with with that I think it

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would just take time to be honest it's

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not something that we'll see immediate

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benefit from it's something that will

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happen every 10 20 years but not yet

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nations are moving a bit more to that

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kind of um old school nation state

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moving away I think from the unification

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sort of thing personally I think that's

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a shame and I would yeah hope maybe it's

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a bit overly idealistic but I you know I

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like to think it's still it's still

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within the realm of possibility to carry

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on and make it better yeah thanks for

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watching this week's episode please let

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us know in the comments below what your

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take is on the EU and if you're a Brit

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what you think has changed since brexit

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and as always we'll see you next time t

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