What does Brexit mean for London?

Britain has aboloshid nursing bursaries so we have a lack of trained nurses.  How will we manage without EU nurses?  Most registered carers are not British.  Who will care for our elderly?  Much of our hospitality industry relies on EU workers. This is generally low paid and doesn't attract young British workers.  We have a severe housing shortage.  Most constuction companies employ many EU workers, there won't be enough trained construction workers to replace them so we won't meet our housing aspirations.  We are not prepared, we don't have enough training programmes or apprentices to fill these gaps for years.

Why come out of the EU when the EU is helping to set up tax avoidance schemes - especially when we have our own tax havens!

Why come out when the EU makes it easy for us to discuss problems with our neighbours, when the EU has already set up around 65 trade deals with other countries?

Why come out when the EU has already set up numerous laws that protect consumers and workers (many of which were actually suggested by the UK)? 

Why come out when the EU has set up agencies to improve standards, welfare and promote joint business schemes,agencies that the UK has participated in and benefited from financially,including: ESA(European Space Agency), European Medicines Agency (EMA), European Police Office (Europol) etc. 

(Some of these agencies have now left the UK with the loss of hundreds of primary jobs and a subsequent loss to suppliers, retailers and the Exchequer.)

Why come out when the UK has sold off most of its major industries to overseas buyers, many of whom came in because we were in the EU?  (We now have to buy planes from the US because we do not make them on our own anymore.)

Brexit is a nonsense - the Tory Party know it and other parties know it as well.

Look at the people supporting Brexit:   Aaron Banks, Ree-Smog, David Davies, B Johnson, Gove, John Redwood, Nigel Farage et al. Do you think for one moment that these people have the interests of ordinary people at heart? Why, John Redwood even advised people not to invest in the UK for the foreseeable future- how's that for belief in what the Brexiteers advocate?

It is time to smell the coffee and scrub Brexit!

The challenge to to unite a country after an awful and bitter divisive event. Britain has long been Eurosceptic since well before 2016, probably since the treasonous Lisbon treaty about we were never asked for consent.  I do believe the UK is resilient enough to continue, inside or outside of the EU, with whom we have a trade (and contributory) deficit, and thanks to our entrepreneurs and active business community and business sense, we will always be a vibrant city, with the enrichment of EU citizens among us. To think otherwise is underselling yourself and this great city. I geneuinely see more opportunities, than inevitable difficulties in changing 40 years of belonging to an institution and suddenly being out. The current thing annoying me is that I feel trapped inside an abusive relationship which we seemingly cannot escape from. 

Brexit presents a great opportunity to end the racist policies of the EU and start accepting immigration from Africa, India and other Commonwealth Areas as well as The Americas abd Asua as we used to. EU cutuzens with skills will be welcome but just being a Caucasian European will no longer invoke privilege agsinstt non Caucasuans. If the Mayor’s family trued to migrate to Britain today, they woukd be refysed as not being  Caucasuan EU citizens

Brexit for me embodies the fear of others through narrowed lenses. Living in London, I can see how diversity is much more of a wealth than a danger for a country. Different cultures can offer very diverse point of ciew an it is important that we use these ressources instead of limit them. 

The only possible way Brexit can be any kind of success is if the UK decides to put all it has behind becoming as self sufficient as possible. Investing in food security, renewable power, education and health. If London wants to prosper in the long term I would suggest the mayor works on these issues at a local level.

Im so worried about the essence of London getting lost. It’s all built on openness, new energy and ideas and people from everywhere arriving all the time. That’s what it’s about. If brexit makes it less attractive or more difficult to move to (bc of atrocious uk home office rules) it can only go downhill from here. I’m extremely concerned and worried, as I’m mainly here for the constant new arrivers who try and make it here.

I have worked in Europe all of my life. I am a Londoner, born and live here. Mainland Europe is economically and politically in a mess. Our Leaders are the ones who need to roll up their sleeves -two years ago - and organise a Brexit that delivers what we votd for. London will still sutrvive Brexit so get on with it. Furthermore I do not want to see my Granchioldren called up for  European Army. My friends and Customers in Europe really hope we get out because these well educated guys wnat out as well. Talk of another Vopyte of any kind and its high cost are simply stupid, and when Leave is voted for again, will that make the EU - Crats give in - of course not so a waste of our money.

As a remainer, I have always wanted Brexit to fail and for us to remain in the EU - for the good of the UK and London. So that London can remain an economic and technological hub for Europe and the world. 

Now, as the possibility that Brexit may fail edges closer, I am concerned that even if we remain in Europe, our country is deeply divided. Fortunately I don't see that being a big problem for London. But I do think that is a big problem for the UK as a whole.

And if Brexit does go ahead, the union may soon break apart. First Scotland, then perhaps Northern Ireland. 

Either way it feels that the divide between the haves and have nots is getting deeper and runs along generational lines. Broadly speaking the under 40s have fewer opportunities to buy a house and therefore enjoy wealth, stability and improvement in their lives compared to the over 40s. 

The biggest opportunity for London is for the Mayor and his team to accept the referndum vote and work with the Government to ensure a smooth and amicable transition. The vote was to leave, forget tou dented egos and work towards a seamless transition that will benefit us all. The EU have made it very clear there is nothing else to give ( a little tweak on the backstop isn't really going to help()

Freedom of Movement was one the best rights changes ever brought in by the EU for my generation ( Early 50's ).

Myself and my friends were able to live and work all over Europe broadening our horizons and increasing our job skills.

I ended up working all over the world for 5 years and returned to London to start a family.

I am saddened that my kids may be deprived from have the same rights and opportunities as myself and my friends.

The economy has been already affected and a new recession has started. Living in London will cost even more than it's now. The UK imports almost everything, especially food, so going to the supermarket will cost much more. Probabily house prices will drop a bit but I won't count on it since with recession usually more people move to big cities. Lots of job opportunities will disappear because Companies are moving abroad. The film industry for instance, which bring billions of pounds to the country and it's one of the few industries that exports UK products abroad, will be affected massively and the big global production companies will move the industry to Canada or India, as it's already happening, exactly how they moved it to the UK almost 20 years ago stealing the market to the US. Lots of UK Companies will have to close because they can't find the workers since local people refuse to do certain jobs and it's not just because they don't want to roll their sleeves up, it's because lots of jobs don't pay enough and don't allow you to survive in London. Said so, the biggest issue I see is that since the referendum the Government is totally focuse on Brexit and all the problems that do exists in the UK and were mainly the causes that brought people to vote for Brexit, are still there but the Government has no energy nor time to deal with them. They will still be there after Brexit and they will be even worse because nobody tried to fix them for a long time and with recession there will be even less possibility to fix them without affecting even more the quality of the service and people's wallets. 

London has benefited enormously from EU membership in all aspects of economics. The corolloary is that it will give back something if we leave the EU. However, much also depends upon the terms on which we leave. Moreover, London is intrinsically adaptive. New opportunities and directions will emerge. Ironically, it is the very regions that voted to leave the EU that will suffer most and struggle to adapt. The best thing City Hall can do is not obstruct initiatives that allow new economic opportunities subject of course to environmental and housing constraints. In principle the housing constraint may ease somewhat after Brexit but this should not stop City Hall from pursuing initiatives that ensure that furure housing problems do not prove a bottleneck for London development. My main immediate concern is the underfunding of the Met. The rise of Far Right groups is a new challenge and the Met needs to be properly resourced. The target wil be London and the Met need to be resourced for Far Right activity as well the obvious threat from criminal gangs.

The butter is not spread evenly over the UK. London is over populated, incomes falling for far too many and a growing underclass of poverty and poorly skilled people and a huge black market. The wrong kind of housing is being built in inappropriate places ignoring the social disaster of the past and priming the same for the future.  Brexit will make little difference. It is being used as and excuse for the complete lack of ability of to deal with our problems without the endless slants of party politics from all party tainting everything.

A ban on oversea property ownership and emphsis on new towns with proper living space, and a ban on hi rise developments, few of which have ever had safe and happy occupants.

For credit to be taken by City Hall leaders for very poor actions sums up their complete lack of ability to deal with local issues so blaming Brexit is simply a smokescreen.  British are very resiliant and will roll up thier sleeves when needs be but this is being stifled for political interst being put first too often