Now we’ll thrive on our own, say voters

JO MUNDAY, 68, RETIRED, FROM SOUTHAMPTON. SIMON WARDLE, 58, ELECTRICIAN, FROM LEEDS.

BREXIT is the best decision this country has ever made. We will absolutely thrive. We did before we joined the common market.

The EU has become a dictatorship. They are dictating to Great Britain and telling us what we can and can’t do.

They are disrespecting everything that Great Britain has done for them.

COMPANY DIRECTOR MIKE CLAYTON, 49, FROM LEEDS.

WE are going to thrive on our own without the shackles of the EU. We will be revitalised as a nation.

Manufacturing is going to regrow and the UK supply chain will take off again. It is already happening.

There is lots of investment in new technology, specifically in electronics. Britain will be No1 in technology.

MIKE HOSEN, 65, ENGINEER, FROM FALMOUTH, CORNWALL.

I VOTED against joining the EU in the 70s and I voted for Brexit this time.

It would have been fine if it was just the open market – there are benefits to that – but it was all the rules and laws that went with it.

Brexit will be a big change but, at the end of the day, people are going to be better off.

I DON’T know what’s going to happen after Brexit, I’m neither optimistic nor pessimistic.

Because of Covid I think they should have put it off again.

If I was in government I would delay Brexit until April when things are a bit calmer. There’s too much uncertainty as there is.

STUART TURBIN, 54, CONSTRUCTION WORKER, FROM WOLVERHAMPTON.

WE got the deal we deserve, and it is what the people wanted.

Whether it’s a good thing or a bad thing financially, time will tell.

But the country could do with a good shake- up anyway, and hopefully the people, and the country, will just continue to excel.

HOWARD DAVIES, 59, FINANCIAL COMMERCIAL SERVICES, FROM BIRMINGHAM.

IT doesn’t really affect my sector right now but I believe some good for Britain will come from this, mainly because we should have more control of what we want to do and decide, such as fishing rights.

Overall I’m happy with it, but there is more detail to be seen.

DEE WILKES, 58, MAKE- UP ARTIST LIVING IN COSTA BLANCA, SPAIN

I’M over here for Christmas but I can’t get back at the moment, so it’s not very good.

I have mixed feelings about Brexit, which will impact me because I travel backwards and forwards. With the visa that I will probably have to get it won’t be easy. And it won’t be easy for people who do work abroad.