Lorry Drivers Who Voted Brexit Regret Everything 

Let's be honest with ourselves though, if someone voted for Brexit and they work in international goods transport that is 100% karma. Like in what world did they think it would turn out any other way?

The old ‘this is not the Brexit we voted for’ BS …… people getting exactly what they voted for but won’t own it.

Imagine being able to live, work, travel and retire anywhere in Europe and then voting for Brexit.

Most typical brexiter ever. “Well I wanted out. But I wanted to keep everything good. This is unfair” 😂

It is amazing how the working class keeps getting tricked into voting against their own interests.

My sympathy is reserved for those people who didn't believe the lie of Brexit and were pulled kicking and screaming from the EU.

You live in an island that depends 100% on international trade. Who would guess Brexit wouldn't work, right??

"We wanted part of our legs chopped off, but we wanted the government to make that painless for us." The delusion with these people...

The lesson from this is simple. Ignoring facts and voting on feelings without regards to the consequences is rarely wise.

“Truck drivers who voted for Brexit” Turkeys who voted for Christmas.

England is that guy who left the group chat for attention and regrets it now

They were told what the impact would be, and still voted against their own best interests. I have no sympathy whatsoever.

I simply cannot understand this. People who made a living of _international transport_ , who traveled & worked with other countries on a daily basis, expected what? Some kind of magic waving of international rules, because _they_ wanted it?! They wanted all the advantages of being inside, while being outside?!

“This isn’t the Brexit I voted for!” “Really? Because this is the Brexit I voted _against.”_ - Most common conversation in the UK, circa 2016 - present.

Oh, so you imagined Brexit meant you could cherrypick all the advantages of the EU while bearing no consequences? No sympathy here mate.

As an African, I thought the people that voted for Brexit knew that things would get worse before they get better. But I'm shocked that they are shocked at the results. Even 1st world countries have ignorant citizens that vote with their hearts instead of their heads.

"oh look. It's the consequences of my own action"

"we wanted Brexit and they delivered brexit. But..." Taking no responsibility and blaming others always works

The UK forgot they don't really produce anything when voting for Brexit 😂

I barely order from the UK now, all those taxes I have to pay, no thank you. If you didn't open a warehouse in the EU to save me those taxes I'm not a customer anymore. And that hurts small businesses the most, but I'm not going to pay for your mistakes

The sympathy I was starting to feel died a swift death when I heard, "We wanted Brexit..". Oh, this is not the Brexit you voted for?

Always amazes me the amount of people who took the EU for granted and were not aware or care about the advantages of membership. How could a haulier not know the damage brexshit would cause to that industry?

If only there were loads of information about why Brexit was a bad idea before the vote! Oh…wait…there was. No. Sympathy.

"You would have thought that ministers behind this would have made it the least painful as possible" - are these people living in the same world as us? Do they not know how the government works?

A lot of people say that they feel sorry for those who were "conned" by the Brexit party. I feel like if you are an adult and have the right to vote, you are responsible for making an informed decision! People who chose out of hatred, greed, and/or sense of exceptionalism deserve whatever befalls them. 🤔 Some people here are ready to vote for Trump again in 2024, so I'm not surprised Idiots like that exist in the UK too.

Why did no-one tell them that voting to leave a club that reduces friction to trade would increase friction to trade? 🙄

Brexit was good for the EU because now nobody wants to leave. But for the UK it was a huge selfharm...

I just can’t believe it happened it’s like throwing away a winning lottery ticket. Unconceivable.

Takes two to lie successfully. One to tell the lie - the other to be stupid enough to believe the lie.

No sympathy whatsoever. If you voted for BREXIT, you have no right to complain about the situation you put us all in.

You reap what you sowed. The stupidity of those voting for Brexit was hallucinating. Enjoy the consequences!

This is what happends when common people gets to vote with their feelings, and its a problem

Hilarious how the guy said the job was a pleasure before Brexit. So basically being in the EU wasn’t in any way making his life hard, but he still voted to end that. Utterly bizarre.

EU procedures were very carefully designed by experts to facilitate trade. People who didn't trust the experts listened to ideologues who exploited their ignorance and prejudice. Now all the British are paying the price.

100% karma on members of Road Haulage Association, National Farmers Union and Fishermen. They all dismissed the genuine concerns as 'project fear'. 0% Sympathy from me I'm afraid, for the 8 years of insults.

What did they expect voting for brexit? It's their fault and now they will deal with the consequences

I have a friend from grad school who is a pensioner who voted for Brexit. I am not a Brit--I live abroad-- but would hear him talk quite a bit about Brexit during the lead up to the vote. He was always talking it up on our Skype calls or our International Conferences (we're still in the same professional organizations). Now, get this: He's pissed because he now has to get a visa to live in the EU for his retirement!

As. Lorry/coach driver. "I told you so". Every lorry coach/driver I know all voted for Brexit. Unbelievable, and a matter of common economic sense. 500 million customers on our doorstep. Unbelievable.

The problem is whether in UK or America, people are voting WITHOUT understanding what they're voting for. They vote from emotion (anger, frustration, hopeful) and easily fall for lies & misinformation.

Imagine being able to live anywhere in 27 countries, from the coasts of Spain, to the vineyards of Italy, to the tech center of Berlin, to the islands of Greece and the French countryside....No questions asked, no visa or job needed... and preferring to instead limit yourself to a cold, rainy, tiny northern Atlantic island 7 times smaller than Texas, with a dying health system, never able to leave again and thinking as you sip tea in your damp overpriced terrace house that "no one is taking away your jobs anymore and you've taken back control from Brussels" with no change to your daily life other than negative impact. LOL There literally hasn't been a more stupid choice known to man.

If they voted to leave, I have absolutely no sympathy for these people at all. They were told what would happen and chose not listen, or even shouted down those who were trying to warn them. Their greed or stupidity or xenophobia or whatever has ruined the lives and futures of millions of people: especially young people. They deserve everything they voted for.

"I voted to leave the EU. Then we did 😭" With the sad music, it's like a Monty Python sketch🤣.

This amount of ignorance and stupidity needed to be punished on a grand scale. Just a shame for all those folks fighting the fight to remain in the EU. Let's hope this won't stay.

All I've heard as an Italian living in Germany for months and months, coming from UK was something like "Out of EU, Britain's first, our interests first" and so on...but... there's no my country first. It's all we're in this together or we won't survive. Nothing. No-one heard...

Telling your people you would get rid of red tape by getting new borders where there used to be non is the most dishonest and disrespectful thing you can say.

I know people who voted Brexit and it was a complete waste of time trying to reason with them. They have zero knowledge of economics but they did not want to know. The damage it has done still makes me angry.

People who voted for Brexit shocked that life is worse after Brexit? Let me go find the smallest violin for you.

I was a stupid sixteen year old when David Cameron declared the referendum, but even I knew that the Tories couldn't be trusted to deliver on their promises. Shit like this frustrates me because there is no excuse. You should have known. This was not a shocking outcome.

i can understand some old ladies and gents voted for brexit, they didn’t really know what good it does for them. But a lorry driver who crosses the border on daily basis? He should have known better!

In his own words "we wanted brexit they delivered brexit", He chose to listen to the charlatans and not to the experts..... deal with it

"Oh look at that.... if that is not the consequences of my actions" ...

Now they care, when it affects them. As far as I'm concerned, they made their bed. What did they expect?

It's always odd to see how easily people can be swayed into voting against their own interests. Sometimes it's as simple as telling them about random "benefits " another ethnic group received.

The educated and intelligent people tried to tell you, but you listened to the idiots. Well done.

If only he was told not to vote for it because it was a bad idea by someone 'anyone'. Amazing

Does anyone else detect a whining POME? What did they think was going to happen? Seems like the "Prisoners of Mother England" have only just realised they are on an island.

As a Canadian of English heritage, watching Brexit unfold has been like seeing your elderly father move out of a perfectly nice retirement home so he could hit the dating scene. You saw the delusions, but Dad still thinks he's all that and a slice of cheese.

It's everyone who DIDN'T vote Leave who get my sympathy, not the blinkered mugs who did.

"I didn't knew the leopards are gonna eat MY face!" screams person who voted for Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.

As an HGV Driver before the "open borders" came in, I have sat in Dover several times for over 24 hours, and often in Customs clearing in Italy, Portugal and France and Spain for 6 or more hours regularly. With the open borders you just need a CMR delivery note, and never get stopped by customs, except in the UK with customs searching for booze, cigarettes and drugs, which was fine. And now the UK has gone back to T1's/T2's;Invoices, carnets and allthe other confusing paperwork! I told several people that that was would happen, along with all the delays. Thank God I had moved to workand reside in Denmark!

But why on earth did you vote for it? You were warned that these exact Problems would come.! How can this come as a surprise? There is nothing your ministers can do to remove any of these restrictions!

"We wanted Brexit and they delivered Brexit. But ..they could have made it less painful." No, that IS Brexit. What did you think others were warning you about? No sympathy for those that voted themselves out. HUGE amount of sympathy for those that have to suffer because of it.

Gentlemen this is called consequences for actions

“I thought Brexit would just hurt OTHER people!” Is what I’m hearing.

This all stems from an "us" vs "them" mentality. Other nations are "other," we are better. We don't need anyone. We can stand on our own. We'll show you how great we can be on our own. Unless you manufacture/produce every single good imaginable on your own soil, how you still live life with this mentality is beyond me. Anyone who did not see this coming was a fool. This is what nationalism gets you. At the end of the day, no country is better than another because the people who inhabit one hunk of land aren't better than the people who inhabit another. Everyone contributes to the life you lead every day. Yes, even people on another land mass thousands of miles away. Want that to change? Change the life you lead and TRULY become independent. That won't happen, because they want change without really understanding how change actually looks and what it actually entails. THEY don't want their lives to change, they just want the nostalgia of perceived superiority. Kind of like the bigots here in the U.S. They swear they want war (another civil war) to reclaim a past they are nostalgic for without really understanding the past or being honest about it. They want the nostalgia of their perceived superiority. They don't connect the dots that they lost the last civil war, they lost each and every attempt establishing the world they envisioned and people who believe what they do ALWAYS lose and always usher in a more liberal society in their wake. But yet, they keep trying, because letting go of their perceived superiority will leave them with nothing. When we all let go of these faux nationalistic ideologies and stop believing we are better than others because of a pre-determined pedigree, or because we happened to be born on a particular hunk of land, when we all realize that we all contribute to each other's lives, we can actually work together for everyone's betterment. Until then, decisions such as this will be made and people will suffer for them.

What’s supremely dumb about this, is that everyone told them this would happen.

The driver had already worked in international goods transport before Brexit, so he knew the advantages of a common market without customs borders and he still voted for Brexit... only to now complain about the effort and delays in customs clearance... ..crazy world.

The Will &Grace 'Told you so' dance comes instantly to mind after just reading the title of the video....

Unfortunately people in Kent voted for this chaos, they actually celebrated in Folkestone when the referendum was announcing

It's as if Nigel was pushing BREXIT not for Britons but for someone else.....🤔🤔

I get it. People were gaslit, and not everyone has a big interest in politics, but it didn't take much research to know what Johnson was like. Only a fool would have voted Brexit.

No! When you do something (they) don’t want, (they) WANT you to feel the pain. So they make it as difficult and painful as possible. Vote them out next chance you get!

"We" wanted Brexit- not we mate- YOU!

What the heck did anyone voting for Brexit think would happen. It is genuinely surprising that anyone would be surprised by this inevitable outcome.

The very first seconds of the video really scared me until I've realised that in Britain they normally drive on left side of the road.

I’ve stopped buying anything from the UK due to customs and high prices.

3:03 ”We wanted Brexit” says the man in the reflection west, and I say ”You won” get over it! 🤦‍♂️

"Lorry Drivers Who Voted Brexit Regret Everything"... with the exception of voting for Brexit in the first place.

Why did people not stop and think that you loose the special privileges once you come out of a relationship/agreement.

"Oh yeah, I cut the branch I was sitting on thinking I will be free flying, but I just landed on my arse."

I have spent the last few years asking a simple question. What can I do NOW that I could NOT do when the UK was in the EU? I have not, to date, had an answer from a single leaver. Not one.

I can't believe lorry drivers voted for Brexit. Having listened to the guy talking about how the government should have made Brexit less painful, he still does not understand Brexit or what it means. The only way the government could have made it less painful is to have stayed in the customs union or the single market, but the government wanted a hard Brexit and the people voted Boris in knowing he was going for a hard Brexit. In fact it could have been even worse if Boris had not agreed a trade deal with the EU, as then there would be tariffs to pay too. Some people just think the government was not hard enough, but it's like exiting a club and expecting all the benefits of the club without being a member, then thinking you would have got your way if only you'd threatened, blackmailed or beaten up the club secretary.

Thing is it’s easy for politicians to convince the public who are often just can’t be bothered to educate themselves on what they sign up for.

"Everything was great and I was happy. So I voted to destroy it."

Zero sympathy for all who voted for Brexit and against their own best interest.

So frustrating to see that people in this industry were so easily conned by the Brexit lie. Did they not understand anything about their jobs and international trade? Perhaps they were too spoilt by the benefits of the EU for the last decades.

As an Irishman living in Ireland who is part of the EU I can laugh and not worry bout waiting for paperwork

"i feel like weve been left to hang dry' You voted to get put on the line outside. You literally voted to get hung out to dry. The nerve to say that you expected policy makers to do better is absolute 💀

Husband says to his wife that he wants a divorce...but still wants her to cook and clean and accommodate regular conjugal visits. Who could possibly predict the end result?

"Obviously we wanted brexit" Speak for yourself, others obviously didn't want brexit. The mess they're got themselves into, is entirely what they wished for.

"I never thought leopards would eat MY face" sobs man who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party

This is like when you buy a tiger and are surprised when it wants to eat you.

What suprised me, that even a haulier wasn't aware of the regulations of moving goods in and out of a third country. And then voting for to be a third country? Never picked up a load in a port from UD or China? Never made a trip into Switzerland? But no Minister could have changed the rules, cause they are agreed at the WTO. No one can change them easily, not even the exceptional and sovereign empire loving brexeteers

"Damn. I didn't think the leopards would eat my face."

What annoys me most is that this inconveniences people outside of GB too. I have a lot of things I'd like to order but now it's much more expensive because of customs.

I run a business in one eu country that needs different raw materials. I would avoid buying from any supplier in the UK. I don't want to deal with custom clearance. I keep searching till I find eu supplier.

They effed it up for everyone and yet they have the cheek to moan about it.

Bit thick these people. We were in the eu and could drive from the northern tip of scotland to the far end of Greece and from Poland ,Latvia and the Russian border to Portugal with hardly a hitch give or take a ferry or two. We aren't in the eu anymore. We have to fill in whatever paperwork and follow whatever rules they devise for non member states. What don't these people understand?

It's called being responsible for your own actions. Claiming ignorance is not an excuse. You must all enjoy what you voted for. Not sorry for any of you at all!

Hmmm, as the old saying goes, “ Be careful what you wish for “ ….