The London Standard spoke to Londoners about how they feel about Brexit 5 years after the UK left the `European Union.
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00:00Out of 10? Probably minus 100 million.
00:03Like with any country in the world, immigration is a big issue,
00:05because you have a lot of people that can't be in their own countries
00:08and a lot of people that need to be somewhere else.
00:10So these people look for countries such as the UK to look for asylum
00:14and hopefully get a better quality of life.
00:17That's what my family did. That's the reason I'm here.
00:19So I have a lot of respect for those families that are able to make it out
00:22and are able to find a new avenue for a life that they can't have in their own countries.
00:27No, you can't just say Brexit means Brexit and then blame the people that came here for it,
00:32because well, there's a bigger cost, you know, like war and it's a famine, etc, etc, etc.
00:38So, I mean, to me, but I also see the other side, which is what I want to say.
00:42With Brexit, sometimes it becomes too much for a country to bear.
00:46And especially the UK and cities like London, where it's becoming,
00:50like it's too much, you know, it's too many people, it's too little jobs.
00:54Like the market is quite literally collapsing in front of everyone,
00:57because if people aren't willing to work, people aren't willing to pay.
01:02I think it's not going very well. I've been against Brexit from the get-go.
01:07As a Pole who emigrated to this country a long time ago,
01:11I feel this was a shot in the foot for the country.
01:16Out of 10?
01:17Yes.
01:17Probably minus 100 million. Couldn't be going worse.
01:21I voted remain. I don't know why we didn't remain.
01:24I can't think of a single positive.
01:27I think it was listed all, some of the negatives in the BBC today,
01:31but the list didn't even begin to touch the surface.
01:34I'm not sure if Europe would take us back. That's one thing.
01:37But I do think that, you know, aligning the UK closer with the EU is a better idea,
01:45especially in the kind of global economic and political climate now.
01:51So the pound crashed immediately after Brexit,
01:53and hasn't really recovered its long-term value.
01:57The stated aims of Brexit to get immigration down
02:00just hasn't borne through in any way, shape or form.
02:04I think immigration is now at an all-time high.
02:07The economic benefits that we would supposedly get from any of the free trade deals,
02:12either the free trade deals like the one of the US hasn't come through,
02:16or they've been with small countries at the other side of the world,
02:19like Australia, like New Zealand, that we don't do that much business with anyway,
02:23all of that has been ginormously offset by all the trade that we could have done with the EU.
02:29I know that sort of the big thing is we can't say exactly how much we've lost,
02:33because we can only compare to where we were,
02:35but I think all major studies suggest now we have lost out considerably,
02:40and for zero benefit.