It's official! 'Brexit has failed'

No sweat I can take a little criticism without going overboard Steve, if I remember rightly you couldn't. 

The Tories never told you to vote for Brexit in the first place. You just thought you knew better.

Yes. People forget Brexit is a means to an end. A doorway has opened and Britain now needs to choose its path. Brexit cannot fail - it's as simple as that - unless you consider sovereign nation states the world over failures because they are not co-governed by some bureaucrats who aren't co-cultural. 

The right to self-determination is the very essence of Brexit and taking control back from Brussels. Unfortunately, you have to remember Parliament and Whitehall have literally been conditioned by Brussels over four decades. A change in mindset won't happen overnight. The UK is in a transitional period of finding its own feet now it isn't reliant on Brussels ordering them about. I'm perfectly fine with this period. It's also pertinent to remember the UK was one of the worst hit G7 nations from the pandemic and the war in Ukraine has driven up inflation, like it has on the continent.

Time and patience is needed. After all, the UK spent 40 years inside the EU and there was still no single market for financial services. Only the Germans, French and Italians got their main industries a leg-up by being part of the SM.

Brexit is a work in progress and the confidence lacking in the nation is purely down to Brussels taking the reigns. 

No need to be scared about making decisions for yourself rather than waiting for orders from the Westminster party. It only goes tits up when people like you repeat everything they say as though it is some king of truth, which it never has been.

By that definition you would be one of the better known populists on here considering the fact most of your posts lack any substance whatsoever and rather attack the messenger.

The UK was failing before entering the Common Market (it is why we joined in the first place). It failed during the Common Market / EU period and is failing now. Yet some people have the need to blame others instead of ourselves for our own failures. Not unlike the Tory failure after getting on for 70% of domination of Parliament since 1951, who always insinuate that Labour are the cause of the countries failures. 
The UK has never been "reliant" upon or conditioned by Brussels that is just a 'blame everyone and everything else' for our own weaknesses and failures. 
The UK dominated EU Financial Services prior to Brexit, and Brexit is one of the reasons we have less involvement in EU financial Services today. That was a concern expressed by many before the referendum who wanted to remain, including myself.

Yes, the pandemic and the invasion of the Ukraine has had a significant negative effect on the UK economy, but they are exacerbated by our underlying economic weakness prior to these events.

We have plenty of room for improvements to be made over the next decade or two, but for me the only time the future will be rosy is when the fundamental 'Financial Greed at the Top' is reigned in a little, at present it plays a far too dominant roll in the economy. In short more should be spent in education, infrastructure and in sorting out the NHS.