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we've been covering brags it since the beginning and i'm now joined by big mass our correspondents from london and paris much as who is in brussels for us it's a huge story the story of the u.k. leaving the e.u. untangle in decades of integration we spent years interviewing politicians campaigners even body language experts and now after traveling across the u.k. as well as the continent and even the seats we're taking a moment to select our past now biggest breck's of losers and some of the winners too. maybe we won't have to have gunships maybe we can use diplomacy. and allow access maybe to some. not tool.

for joe is really few sleep protective about his fish he's a fisherman and hastings that's on the southern english coast and his family have been there for generations for centuries really if you're looking for the wilderness of cracks that we've met them in the english channel trust of the british coast of some of northern europe richest fishing grounds british fishermen are now able to fish much more freely and that's exactly what paul joy wanted to do take back so often 3 of british soldiers. on the right that's one of that aspect of rex when we take back control of their territory will. that means that they're kicking out a european official the dutch for example and they've been fishing here for hundreds of years they would have less access to the fishing grounds of the british coast. so it's 4 in the morning and we're standing in this huge fish factory some

ships there catch up to 80 percent of their fish in u.k. waters the whole industry relies on this catch and it relies on running at full capacity much less than that and it could collapse but it's also an emotional thing what used to be our colleagues richer or our colleagues our friends working together in european fisheries politics and all of a sudden it's turned upside down as if they are strangers as if we are strangers and that is a very very bad feeling. very belonging to a male which is france's biggest fishing port people very much feel the same way and you know what ironically what's safe them is a matter of taste the thing is that british fish eaters don't really like what's in their own waters like herring for example or macro ray that all get sold to europe but. what they do are like card for example for their fish and chips this is

something that they have to buy of the european fishermen so europe is really the biggest market and a huge trading partner when it comes to fish. british fishermen need to be they so i would say about 70 percent of their catch to the e.u. market. and without a trade deal in place all that fish that british fish would have been subject to massive tariffs and barriers. a cliff. no deal breakers that in other words would have put them straight out of business and still paul's fault it was worth the risk. breakthrough is a long term goal. i think we've got to go a long way before we see gains we've in anything really anything could be industry banking financial monetary economy they're all going to suffer in the short term

but it's something we're quite happy to do so that we have a long term benefit of controlling their own seas and controlling our own destiny is passion for control over the sea was widely shared by u.k. politicians and we saw that throughout those endless negotiations again and again so it often felt like britain was much more concerned about fishing than for example other much more important parts of the economy like for example the city of london fishing is less than 0 point one percent of their economy so why all the fuss is something that you might ask i think it took you a while to understand what on earth was so important about fish and in the end it was all about patrie optics symbolism this idea that britain is an independent coastal state.

i just became so aware of it you know you just you run into it you're out of it but it's not a functioning border and if that was to change it changes everything and it changes not just the landscape of the country but it changes the functioning of the country on her own alex has been crossing the border numerous times and without any difficulty it's a completely open border and mostly they're not even signs that tell you that you're crossing an actual border from the republic of ireland over there from northern ireland and the u.k. . it used to be one of the most famous borders in in all of europe. but for all the wrong reasons this passionate struggle to keep the places apart or to bring them together costs thousands of lives. it's only recently that it's all

been quite with a peace deal but also within you support and you integration. to grasp what's still at stake in northern ireland just take a look at belfast there are these huge peace walls and like in berlin they've become a tourist attraction only these walls still sort of pompous they keep people apart . people who would fight each other over whether to stay a part of the u.k. or to join the republic of ireland. it was really chilling to meet the final he was all about fighting for a united ireland meeting him felt like going back in time to the 1970 s. . it was talk about the irish republican army the ira and dying and killing for the course. we would commemorate barry volunteers and this community for us already volunteers. who were martyred paid the ultimate sacrifice for irish

freedom and he also murdered others and i mean war the. republicans have traditionally saw that as long as we are. the irish people have the right to resist occupation by any means by any means also with arms well before i would include performs that's been traditionally been the republican viewpoint while the majority of people in northern ireland voted to remain with the. those who voted leave did so because they saw this is an opportunity to show that they are not part of the u.k. and separate from the republic of ireland. it was all about leaving one union in order to stay in another union but some are now regretting that. if i had the opportunity to turn back time and read around a fractured vote i would be encouraged to change my mind and vote for me and gently because the issues that already exist and. have been compounded by

a practical and we fought long and hard in this conflict. data sectarianism try and make a better future for all our. on the practice issues as. a community. while there were. of the european union people in northern ireland didn't have to choose whether they were british or irish or both they didn't have to choose one identity over another and trade between northern ireland the republic of ireland the u.k. and the you used to be very easy but not anymore hot border between northern ireland and the republic of ireland could be avoided but it has been replaced by a border basically in the i receive between the u.k. and northern ireland and we're bound to see some form of custom control.

so we found frustration and even bitterness in the republic among people who would now face more obstacles when they're sending things like for example forklift trucks to great britain and also to the rest of the e.u. if you ask anyone in the irish population of course this is being imposed on the irish population and in that sense it is madness but the problem is of course we did not have the control on this the control of it belonged to the u.k. voters for this result so it's not a result that the amish population would have wanted for. them as for northern ireland bracks it may have actually helped those who want to see northern ireland cut itself loose from the u.k. so the republican cause may be the winner of rex and so irish reunification is suddenly not an unrealistic prospect anymore and it's new and it's a direct result of bricks and.

there's a real possibility that breaks it could trigger the end of the united kingdom scotland very much has a strong identity and a big part of that is not being english scotland just had an independence referendum just 6 years ago and they voted to actually stay in the u.k. but that was before bracks it many scots really really don't want to leave that club and they resent the english for voting for bracks it. it still gives me shivers when i think about that surely morning last winter we met up with some very brave scottish souls they were winter swimmers and they were braving the waters off the coast of fadden bro all year round they are not a political on the whole never extremely polite but they had very clear words for the english who had voted for breaks and. this is what you saw joe england and unfortunately all of england. yes give us our independence equal we can look after

ourselves fairly ignored and feeling we're being torn out. with african century and it's horrible the m.p. tommy sheppard represents the scottish national party in the u.k. parliament and we saw him in his constituency office in edinburgh we have had a lot of extremely generous friendly overtures from other european governments saying that if things britain leaves the european union and scotland takes political control of the sort of affairs then scotland would be welcome in the european union. so the scottish nationalists are a clear winner here all recent opinion polls say that the scottish people the majority of them want to go their own way and that they want to be independent now .

what is in the caribbean are not how fast chile has its problems but when we traveled thousands of kilometers to the island of. what we found is that people there were just as annoyed about as people. should have had a chance to participate in the brits and that no other people should decide and we don't speak it puts us in a precarious. it's done because. economical we might be his advantage but. it does not make us feel as though we are part of. the british territories we are part of the european union under britain. and we probably would suffer in a most of them have british passports but because i'm a british overseas territory and only partly governed by the u.k.

the $15000.00 or so islanders didn't have oppressive vote. we were there just after a big hurricane had hit in 2017 'd but people reckon it will do much more damage than that what we already know is that last all you subsidies which made up a big part of the island spotted. all relations with this next door neighbor so much are now much more complicated because someone tom ince part of france and therefore it's still part of the you. rely on summer time for trade transport and health care and they're your past words. they as well as the scots are being pulled out of the you against their will so the news as hear all the ordinary people just like in scotland brags it has boosted their use and will who won independence.

so there we were in the city of london it's europe's biggest financial hub and the city is enormously important for the u.k. we have the skills and the knowledge of the culture you know to handle. the financial sector and perhaps other countries in within your. i don't have the. financial services contribute over 10 percent of the tax revenue for the u.k. . i can still see her standing there at this desk surrounded by glass in this imposing skyscraper that says you know power. it was just after the break to vote that we went to see the head of law itself along the insurer in the bill told

us that they had full 1000000000 euros worth of business with e.u. clients or financial services were largely left out of the trade talks and so she was hoping for what is called passport to the right to continue to trade with the e.u. if we can continue with passports that is our ideal situation we've been talking about that even before the referendum we said it's so important because that's really that gives us the ability to provide insurance to our customers in the 27 so if that could continue that would be just tremendous but now there is no passport whatsoever and financial firms have really been hammered by bret's it is estimated that already about $10000.00 jobs have been relocated to other places in the e.u. and more than a trillion pounds in assets has been moved from the u.k. to other destinations in the u. that's about 110th of all the assets that are managed in the u.k.

even though it's still the most important financial hub in europe the city of london is clearly a bread salusa and its position is likely to diminish father the woman saw other financial centers. frankfurt luxembourg they all have already profited from bricks that. i made and many. of them to me and i'm. wondering if my country undernet for all. my generation because i passionately believe in the european project and i passionately believe that bracks is going down the. side. of the break that what madeline like a was doing she was fighting really desperately for a 2nd branch that referendum she turned herself into e.u. supergirl and she camped outside parliament she really put her life on hold she

stopped studying she only wanted to stop it there were others like her for example sami on the wall or they both had a big presence on social media but it didn't do the trick so the problem was the young people came too late they voted overwhelmingly in the referendum to stay in the european union not enough of a man showed up to vary it so they lost and they lost a lot they simply call and do what parents were able to do which is to just easily live travel study on the continent indeed. also works in other directions for you since i met for instance this polish account . he's one of 3000000 citizens who have made the u.k. their home. so now they can stay in the u.k.

they can register with the government's settlement scheme but it's just not that easy they can't just come here and work as easily as they used to be able to be. part of your program in you know also but you can move from one city to another go if you're going from country to country like you move in in just you know your country in term you. don't always there you are if you want to came to me maybe you don't reveal in stubbornly dreamlifter different situation do you sit. also you can only be lucky to you have to go dark you can go do something that was next you could have been prepared when you get a movie just to keep the country. many other people who tried to make a life in the u.k. decided to go home and basically take their expertise with the. bros and mcnamara is a friend of mine she had been working as a consultant emergency doctor in london and i put up with she and for the children

packed to move back to dublin. for me the uncertainty around and trying to plan for their future if we were to say here is one of the big motivators but for the 2 of them i don't really know what they. are for them if they stay on here for a 2nd drink with her. what are they going to be allowed to while it defines them thousands of e.u. nurses and doctors have now gone home and it's a massive problem for the u.k. health service especially with the corona pandemic there are around 100000 unfilled positions in the sector and that means patients are losing out. the windows here the committed great city as they could not have to see in the pandemic of course but any short term disruption was always going to be worth it for them. for a moment it seemed whether the decision to leave might be reversed so they showed

up outside parliament clearly upset and the top of that read bret's it and it wasn't just older people by the way there were also young people that had come pain for bread like others grant and her sister beatrice they were both still at school at the time enable ideas like democracy and some say you can't take this for granted and i think yeah you know i had friends saying yeah i would be able to do my rasmus and it's like well you know 17400000 people differently if some people are as privileged. promised even bath's was so proud of his product of what he has achieved we spend half a day on this lesson field and that's when he voiced his frustration at how people had voted in the referendum. i don't think. people realized how much we depend on foreign labor coming in.

most films actually didn't vote for brands and even though many of them depend quite heavily on the subsidies and doing their own friend in the bread city is a promise that this money would be replaced and nobody would be out of pocket trouper exit but now it looks like within the next 3 years farmers could lose at least half of what they receive under the e.u. system. that would be a disaster particularly for small farms we could easily see a very substantial percentage of families disappear family found just gone and that won't be something you can do so again for the 10 years time perhaps politically we got our room because. once wellness leave the land and go on something else to do i generally don't come back and write. french language and sun and wood i'll sheep farmers in suffolk in southern england they are the 4th generation to farm this

really beautiful spot and they hope that one day it was children will take over the phone. they sell most of their land to france the french like a lamb like this which has a good conformation. they want them weighing around about $18.00 to $20.00 kilos as a carcass. not too much fat just a little fat. that's that's the ideal and that's the highest value market they did not vote for pranks frank was just laughing at the idea that bracks it would cut red tape from brussels will there be any less. there won't be any less as civil servants to like paper so we will still have lots of play for the farmers in correctly blamed europe for the paper when it was actually our own people that created lots of people big farms will be able to deal better with the paperwork and

even buy up land from small farms who go bust so at the end of the day they may be the big winners to run on our own to run the wife or wife from europe i think is is a is a better thing for us as a country and we're in a world market anyway and that's of course true for all exports. but for manufacturers like the ocean move but industry for example breaks introduce is really huge programs. the advantage that british and european manufacturers had they could move car parts between them really easily and really quickly and that would be gone for the moment we sell into germany from certainly well in europe like we're showing you that if we are outside the open market it will be an export for export lot of export people work you've got a lot of money tied up with her because we haven't seen the 4th we'll have to go a lot of things that we don't. like al is

a real self-made man whose company was selling parts of dime learned b.m.w. and we interviewed him just before the fateful bricks in it and like absolutely every executive in the car industry was very very worried about drugs that. investment in the u.k. car industry has plummeted since then it's 80 percent down and covered has made things just was that if we look purely at the bread to defect some eastern european countries are winning because some manufacturers and some in the car industry have already relocated some of their production to eastern europe. we're looking over at the u.k. from europe i can't help but feel frustrated. practical sold in the u.k.'s this big wind wind and what we have now is

a new sleuth so it's very hard to see any significant advantages in in all of this . after all the people we met after all the praise as well was travel these people are basically mainly lost out tensions are clearly running i investments that we've had these strong european traders this here for months so i'm a german i'm living in the u.k. my children who were born here. and i feel at home here but for me the e.u. is also important and it's important as a peace project these are the roots of the e.u. but that doesn't really resonate in the u.k. and i remember when i was talking to a friend about this before the referendum i explained this to her and it was a completely new idea for her and she voted for bret's it. i'm quite confident that over the years we'll manage to form

a new relationship like becoming friends after divorce but what we will not have is this institutional pressure which we have in the e.u. to solve problems to tackle problems together. in today's world you need to team up to tackle global issues like the environmental crisis like regulating tech giants like migration and without the u.k. team europe lacks a key player you can take back control as the phrase goes of our money our borders our laws so the brakes to tears now need to define what actually is global britain what do they mean by it and how will it work and they need to prove that this acrimonious divorce process that is really worth that and that there are new opportunities for the u.k. because the breadth of that we're seeing now is much much harder than what was

originally promised. tears were shed when the u.k. flag was lowered outside the european parliament that night and i remember i was moved to. and i kept thinking the only positive thing that comes out of this is that the rest of the e.u. will see what the u.k. is walking away from. treasure it more.

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