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Originally Posted by pip08456
I'm uneducated, it's not my fault. I blame the government!
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Well done. Seems on this forum most would blame immigrants or the EU.
Convenient scapegoats for our own failings, and I look forward to seeing who our politicians blame for our problems when we leave the EU, as we're almost certain to.
India have told us to get lost as far as a trade deal goes without liberalising immigration policies.
Our economy is doing well despite the allegedly massive drag of being in the EU and the Single Market.
Anyone would think that perhaps the best idea is to not mess with things and carry on as we are, as it's clearly a formula that's working.
Note: For those 'expert' types, there are massive structural issues in the UK economy. These are nothing to do with the EU and our leaving the EU's only impact on them is negative, in that it throws a whole bunch of other problems into the mix to try and solve.
A 'hard' Brexit will hurt. A lot. There is absolutely no evidence to indicate it will do anything other than hurt our economy. While evidence is not something that people seem to pay attention to it's worth mentioning. The OBR forecasts, and it's worth mentioning this is an institution born solely to be politically independent, are if anything optimistic if the UK does leave both Single Market and the customs union. These not the same thing despite the nonsense that the leave side are peddling.
Few things quite put the nonsense into context quite like that 'Leave means leave' are advertising what the UK might do with the 10 billion a year 'EU windfall' while the OBR as forecasting that Brexit will leave a multi-billion pound a year hole in the UK's finances.
Still if people want to carry on deluding themselves Leave.eu are only happy to carry on lying to them. After all, they have been doing it successfully for months, why change a winning formula?