Re:UK expected to be only major economy to shrink in 2023 – IMF
by pessimizer on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @10:34AM
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> The whole point of Brexit was to remove local and EU democratic oversight and turn the UK into a neoliberal dictatorship.
Of course, the expectation that the EU should be saving the UK from its local elites who the UK press and voters continue to protect and elect is a strange one. It's certainly antidemocratic.
Re:UK expected to be only major economy to shrink in 2023 – IMF
by makomk on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @10:51AM
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It's even stranger if you think about another common anti-Brexit argument: that many of the "EU laws" which caused people to vote for Brexit were actually created by the UK and Brexit supporters were tricked into blaming the EU for them, where the "UK" in question was actually the same tiny group of UK leaders that we're meant to fear Brexit will hand over control to, behind closed doors, with no real functioning democratic oversight.
Quite literally. Aside from the broad lies - the infamous £350m a week for the NHS, and the "Absolutely no one is suggesting the UK will leave the Single Market", among many others - Cambridge Analytica aimed micro-targeted ads with knowingly misleading promises at micro-demographics.
The whole point of Brexit was to remove local and EU democratic oversight and turn the UK into a neoliberal dictatorship. Those responsible are perfectly happy to trash most of the UK's economy as long as they personally get much, much richer.
The entire project is a shocking exercise in leveraging exceptionalist collective narcissism into a pretext for oligarchy and corruption on a Russian scale.