Re:UK expected to be only major economy to shrink in 2023 – IMF
by ndsipa_pomu on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @10:11AM
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I'm fairly sure that most brexit voters were expecting a soft brexit. There were plenty of politicians stating that it was absolutely not going to be a hard brexit, or at least that's what they said up until the vote.
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Re:UK expected to be only major economy to shrink in 2023 – IMF
by stevekemp on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @10:31AM
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Different politicians promised different things, with varying degrees of seriousness and commitment. (For example the Boris-Bus).
I realize I'm getting pedantic, but at the end of the day people just voted "Yes, leave" or "No, remain".
The actual specifics were wonderfully ambiguous.
(FWIW I'm a UK citizen, and I submitted a postal-vote for the referendum, having already left the country for unrelated reasons.)
Re:UK expected to be only major economy to shrink in 2023 – IMF
by ndsipa_pomu on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @10:40AM
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UK Remoaner here.
I do remember brexit proponents going on TV and specifically stating that we would stay in the EU market and no way would it be a hard brexit.
But yes, the vote was flawed due to "brexit" not being defined at all.