The end of the year show.
Leaving aside the idiots who are calling for remainers to “make Brexit work”, it can’t, never will and is not their fault or job to try, what have we learnt this year?
Well for a start, the full costs of this madness are now being seen and felt. From lower growth, lower productivity, lower business investment, lower tax revenues and higher costs of business and trade. There is also immense damage to university research and cooperation, data and security issues and nearly every sector of the economy.
And there is more to come, the mad wish to tear up every item of EU retained law, without knowing what to put in its place will scar industry for years. The NIP issue hangs over the UK and all the border checks at Dover have not yet been introduced.
So things are going to get worse, at least now the ability of the swivel eyes loons to claim Brexit is an economic success are dying, they increasingly have to fall back on the lie that it was all about sovereignty and independence and this is all a price worth paying.
Not anything that we saw on the side of the bus, but it does illustrate that these people know nothing about sovereignty or independence either.
So what will happen next year? I think that at some point the OBR will have to review its calculation that Brexit would destroy 5-6% of the British economy. It looks a lot worse than that. Why?
Because I doubt that the OBR based its calculations on the UK being barred from Horizon, failing to coordinate standards with the EU, being frozen out of data sharing, threatening to tear up an international treaty, leaving industry with no idea what rules to follow, failing to get qualifications recognised or make business movement seamless.
Small and medium sized companies are giving up on doing business in the EU, and much of the EU is giving up on doing business in the UK.
The UK is the sick man of Europe again and it is going to get sicker.
Economics, trade and Brexit, not necessarily in that order but the dog always comes first.
By Jonty Bloom Media
People should stop focusing on the NI Protocol- it’s the one bit of the negotiations they actually got right.
It is *not* a problem, except for the swivel eyed loons in the DUP who realise their dogs dinner of an approach to Brexit and it’s aftermath has become an existential threat to their Precious Union. And they’ve no one to blame but themselves. In fact in NI we’re being sheltered from the actual effects of Brexit to the point where the general public here has no real idea of the scale of the social decay in Britain.
A haulage company based in the party’s north Antrim heartland recently testified to parliament that the NIP is disastrous for their customers. They had just posted their best annual profits in their history, and now they’ve just sold up to a Danish haulage company for over £130m.
https://www.irishnews.com/business/2022/12/30/news/ballymena_transport_group_mcburney_acquired_by_danish_shipping_giant_for_138m-2963817/
The dishonesty is insidious.
I can’t recall being told to “make brexit work”, although I do remember being vociferously told I had lost and should “suck it up” - which I guess we’re all doing now. Sadly, my protagonist still thinks it’s all worth it because “we don’t have loads of foreigners coming here”. Honestly, where on earth do you start?