The desperation of the Brexiteers takes many forms, now they are claiming that leaving the EU is a 10-20 year project and no one can say whether it is working or not yet. Which is handy.
The second sleight of hand is mathematical. Apparently there is no way for economists or statisticians to tell if leaving the EU is costing money or hurting the UK economy. It is just impossible, you see economics is just not sophisticated enough to be able to tell what is cause and what is effect, the numbers are unclear and there are alternative figures and alternative interpretations of what very limited data there is.
This is, of course, a lie. Hundreds of the most experienced, knowledgable and well trained economists in the world have looked at the data and shown without doubt what the hit to the British economy is. Some economists working for organisations supporting Brexit have questioned those figures but have been shot down effortlessly by independent and impartial experts every time. There really is no doubt about it.
And the reason you can tell the Brexiteers are lying is that strangely enough they can calculate to the last shekel the benefits of free trade deals which the UK has signed since Brexit and how much they are going to add to British growth and the economy. How strange!
They also seem to forget that the cost of Brexit has already been calculated taking the benefit of those 2 trade deals already, so the headline disastrous costs don’t change because of the deals. How strange?
In fact any 5 year old could understand the gravity model of trade and that barriers at borders hurt trade. But Brexit supporters can’t.
One can only conclude that they live in a fantasy world with its own system of maths, and economics; oh and common sense too.
Economics, trade and Brexit, not necessarily in that order but the dog always comes first.
By Jonty Bloom Media
10-20 years? God help us. Why is it, when politicians have completely fucked everything over, that they always want ‘one more term’ to “finish the job”? You’ve made enough mess already, just piss off and let an intelligent grown-up sort things out
A few years ago Jacob Rees Mogg was asked when we might see the benefits of Brexit. He plucked a figure of 50 years out of the air.
If you take a wrecking ball to your only home, with no plans to build a replacement and no money to do it anyway... you may be homeless for an indeterminate period. Brexit was taking a wrecking ball to the nation's homes, livelihoods, aspirations, with no plans other than profiting from the chaos for the wrecking ball operators.