The government’s latest agitprop attempt is to publish a shiny new booklet on the benefits of Brexit. Crowns on pint glasses, blue passports and old ladies cycling to Holy communion down leafy country lanes, that kind of thing.
Of course it is all worthless drivel unless you also weigh it against the costs. Billions and billions on red tape, lower trade, less investment and lost opportunities for business and people.
Which the government doesn’t seem eager to do, it can calculate the vanishingly small benefits of a trade deal with New Zealand but not the cost of worse terms of trade with the EU.
The fact is that it knows the former will always be far outweighed by the latter and it has the data to prove it.
But it will take a new government to publish the true facts which we all know the Treasury has collected but is sitting on.
Until then we are all being lied to, again.
Economics, trade and Brexit, not necessarily in that order but the dog always comes first.
Absolutely, having worked in government strategy teams the last thing you want is to have outcomes actually measured. And if you insist on putting outcomes against costs it's the work of the devil...