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Old 02-12-2018, 18:13   #4129
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Re: Brexit

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Originally Posted by OLD BOY View Post
You know very well about Project Fear and the forecasts that were made about the economy taking a hit immediately after any vote to leave the EU. It was wrong, wrong, wrong.

The economic forecasts you are relying on for the future assume that negatives from leaving the EU will not be balanced by anything else changing. So while they may be fairly accurate about those negatives (or not), without the balance of positives also being factored in, you get a misleading result. Frankly, I would have thought that was obvious.
Only today, I was reading in the leave-supporting Sunday Times about how the benefits of any trade deals have been vastly oversold and account to fractions of a per cent. It looks like they now accept the maths so it may be just a matter of time before you do too.
And, as I explained before, government propaganda should not be confused with forecasting.
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