Re:Bank of England expects UK to fall into longest ever rece...
by TheOtherHobbes on Thursday November 03, 2022 @03:57PM
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Even if that were true - and it isn't - countless export-oriented businesses have been shutting down because it is now insanely bureaucratic and uneconomically expensive to trade with a bloc that is just over 20 miles away.
The lies told to get Brexit over the line normalised a period of exceptionalist reality-denying insanity which has spilled over into Covid policy, economic policy, climate policy, health policy, energy policy, immigration policy [1], transport and logistics, media credibility, and political stability.
It is - without any exaggeration at all - an absolute shit show.
No one earning less than a few million a year has benefited in any lasting or significant way. Certainly not big-picture economically.
[1] Pandemic aside, Brexit has had no impact on immigration numbers.
The lies told to get Brexit over the line normalised a period of exceptionalist reality-denying insanity which has spilled over into Covid policy, economic policy, climate policy, health policy, energy policy, immigration policy [1], transport and logistics, media credibility, and political stability.
It is - without any exaggeration at all - an absolute shit show.
No one earning less than a few million a year has benefited in any lasting or significant way. Certainly not big-picture economically.
[1] Pandemic aside, Brexit has had no impact on immigration numbers.
https://migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/briefings/lo...