Office for Budgetary Responsibility summary:
The new trading relationship between the UK and EU, as set out in the ‘Trade and Cooperation Agreement’ (TCA) that came into effect on 1 January 2021, will reduce long-run productivity by 4 per cent relative to remaining in the EU.
Both exports and imports will be around 15 per...
Lord Deben(Tory): "There are people, frankly, telling lies about climate change...and there are 3 newspapers pretending we don't have to fight it..." These are the same people and newspapers that lied aboiut Brexit. We're faced with a real disaster.. as we'll have migration like we've never seen before....
Some of...
Never mind the parties in the UK, imagine the celebrations across the European continent. At last they have got rid of those half witted troglodytes that thought they were intelligent but always seem to elect the selfish, self obsessed moron to represent them.
We'll have to travel incognito on the...
At last. After years of sophistry and misleading narrative we finally have an admittance that the referendum result and the consequent handling of the post referendum result by consecutive Conservative governments has wrecked the UK economy and put it in a much worse position than most other countries across...
Whatever one's position one thing is true. The partisan shouting match between the two sides has meant that we have an absolute mess in the UK in which the public and business people have been cheated by a small select bunch of dishonest cronies.
The economy is a mess....
An investigation has been launched into the £120m "festival of Brexit" amid concerns visitor numbers were less than 1% of early targets.
A cross-party parliamentary committee has asked the National Audit Office (NAO), the public spending watchdog, to look into how the project was managed to "help get to the...
Shortages and supply chain issues may just be the beginning of problems that have come from Conservative Brexit policy.
Amidst fuel shortages, rising gas prices and increasingly bare shelves, Boris Johnson refuses to blame Brexit for these issues. Early in October, Johnson claimed on the Andrew Marr Show that the...
This will come as no surprise that a proposed New Clause 9 to the EU Withdrawal Agreement Bill, to ensure no Government Minister benefits financially from a hard or No Deal Brexit may not be selected for debate. Welcome to Boris Johnson’s “golden age”. (Peter Stefanovich)
https://twitter.com/Debbie_abrahams/status/1214107314594205696?s=20
Before we let the BBC explain the catastrophe that the Tory right wing imposed on the country, let us remind ourselves of some of the disasters that befell us:
Economic Impact:
Trade Barriers: Exiting the EU has resulted in trade barriers between the UK and its former EU partners, potentially leading...
Whether one voted to Leave or Stay is not the issue. The issue is how bad does it have to get before those who voted to leave admit that a new direction is required. For the very rich they don't care because they will always look after themselves but...
