We’re relieved, it’s a Christmas present



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Relieved or pessimistic, the British today hope that the post-Brexit trade deal with the European Union, a kind of “Christmas giftIt will allow you to turn the page on Brexit once and for all.

«It is a nice Christmas gift for the country to end everythingSaid David Asby, 62, an unemployed Boston resident, a staunch supporter of Brexit on England’s east coast.

«I think it’s a nice long-term Christmas gift. I think this lasted too long». Andy Fitz, another resident of the small town where the Brexit vote was one of the highest in the country in his referendum 2016, is more pessimistic.

«I don’t think it’s good. I don’t think it was a good idea to leave the EU in the first placeHe explains.

«In the end, what we have to do is work with our partners, be it local authorities or neighboring countries. Works best when we work togetherSaid Paul Skinner, who heads the Boston local council. There is also relief in London.

«The absence of agreement would be destructionSaid Shane O’Neill, who is “very happy that there is agreement“, Although”sadThat the United Kingdom leaves the European Union.

«ΘI would have preferred to stay in Europe, but I am relieved that it is over and we have to turn the page“, he said.

To Harry Vincent, “it’s a relief “that there is agreement” after all these years»Difficult negotiations and uncertainty.

But he wonders: would this agreement be better than joining the EU?

«The compromises we have made, which are necessary to reach an agreement, make me wonder if it is worth it.». This 21-year-old student regrets not having a voice in the June 2016 Brexit referendum, because he was too young to vote then.

THE Hugh rowlands, also a student, says the deal will bring “relief” expected after a difficult year marked by the pandemic, a kind of “great Christmas present” canceled for many Britons due to the virus.

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