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Re:UK triggers the official Brexit process in a letter to EU by cmdkeen on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @09:55AM (#13986203)
The language around the budget was "emergency" and "in the event of a vote to leave". You are correct the IFS analysis was about post leaving the EU, that was certainly not the spin the remain campaign placed on it.

Saying "no one expected the UK economy to crash the day of" is a little odd - the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee certainly seemed to think they needed to act in the immediate aftermath of the vote with the interest rate cut which is now looking not such a great idea.

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Re:UK triggers the official Brexit process in a letter to EU by vidarh on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @11:30AM (#13987216)
Remember that we had a prime minister that lied and said he'd invoke Article 50 immediately?

All the predictions were based on a bunch of promises by certain people to make rash, idiotic changes immediatly after the vote. Promises that were thankfully broken.

Most of the conditions that these kind of predictions were made under changed the moment Cameron resigned.

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