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What's the viewpoint like from outside the London/SE bubble?
Living in Northern Ireland, let's say people here aren't too impressed with Brexit to begin with, the hard unionists are pissed off with the border in the Irish Sea, most people just want local government to be good and they aren't looking forward to economic damage and of course others see it as a chance to push unification to the front of the agenda again, so all in all...not really helpful at all here.
This won't affect you, but Tories are happy to keep pushing the immigration blame game and dogwhistles (treating the country too much like my own? tx Boris...) and don't do much about bigotry against immigrants.
The minority of shits that exists in every country really has been emboldened by Brexit, the Windrush people are still waiting on compensation, they know 10s of thousands won't get Settled Status in time and become "illegal" but don't care.
Of course, it depends where you want to live in the UK, Belfast isn't bad but some people really are getting a hard time so may be worth investigating if you do want to go live somewhere and don't want to be around it. Or maybe you are happy to tell them to shut up as it is unbecoming and not British per the Life in the UK book ;)