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Today, in "predicted consequences of Brexit turn out to be right", our first entry is some shortages of fresh fruit and veg... https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9132689/Supermarket-shelves-hit-Brexit-port-chaos-staff-shortages-stores-run-low-fruit-veg.html?ito=amp_twitter_share-top
Our second entry in "predicted consequences of Brexit turn out to be right" is potential losses of financial services both to the EU and US. This article usefully also pointing out the City will have to change / evolve / innovate. https://www.ft.com/content/d8b906cb-2747-48d1-99e6-4720c573e08a
So far the impacts of Brexit have been entirely predictable to anyone with a good understanding of economics and trade who isn't also blinded by visceral anti-EU hostility. As per previously, how the UK economy adapts to trade barriers is key, not denying their existence.
Another predicted consequence of Brexit - harder for UK firms to keep their operations in the EU going... most of all though this is a great read from @john_lichfield https://unherd.com/2021/01/will-brexit-rob-france-of-ms/?tl_inbound=1&tl_groups[0]=18743&tl_period_type=3
And this (issues of shortages of hauliers and vets among others were speculated about before Brexit, but there wasn't complete certainty as to effect). https://twitter.com/vivamjm/status/1348565710939811840
If anything the first couple of weeks of new UK-EU trade barriers have probably gone a little worse than I expected, and I'm reminded that modern trade is a highly complex network of relationships that fit together in ways we don't exactly know.
