The estimated cost of brexit by the end of 2019 was £130billion.
Looking back now we have been hit by a pandemic, it is an utter tragedy that that money was not spent in investing in our NHS. We should have followed the expert advice given in 2016 to stockpile PPE, ventilators, etc in preparation for a pandemic. It is an utter tragedy that the same bunch of idealogues who put brexit before everything else are running the country into the ground and yet still refuse to even ask for an extension to the transition period.
Whether because of their incompetence, or whether their strings are being pulled by the disaster capitalists who were behind brexit, the result is that we were totally unprepared and are likely to see the highest death rate in Europe, and probably the second highest in the world after the USA .
Everything has been too little too late. They ignored the WHO advice to test, test, test, actually stopping testing the public because of the lack of test capacity. They let everyone arriving at ports and airports sail through without any checks at all. They were far to slow to lockdown. They completely overlooked the care sector resulting in thousands more deaths.
But hey- they got brexit done.