Trade hit from Brexit was ‘always inevitable’, Rishi Sunak tells MPs | The Independent

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  1. >Trade hit from Brexit was always inevitable

    That’s not what Brexiteers said before the vote.

    Apparently “we hold all the cards”.

    There would be “no downside, only a considerable upside”

    The world would “beat a path to our door” for trade deals.

  2. Of course it was.

    We were telling you, and you were calling it “Project Fear”.

    Project Fear is project Here and anyone who voted leave deserves every “we told you so” going.

  3. > “Doesn’t that tell you that the main distinction between ourselves and them is that we went through Brexit and they did not?” asked Mr Stide.

    > The chancellor replied: “It might well be, I’m just saying it’s too early to be definitive.”

    Translation: Thank you for that nice rope, but I’m not going to hang myself.

  4. Imagine being that rich and well educated and busting out that tautology.

    Always….. inevitable….

  5. Damaging relationships with 40 percent of your export market causes trade issue? Who would’ve thought.

    I’ll give Torries this, they were masters of spin. They somehow convinced the public for 15 years that they were a “Safe pair of hands” with the economy.
    15 years shows this to be a lie.

  6. I’m always a bit worried when such a big decision for the country is decided by idiots fed with lies upon lies.

    Why??

  7. All the Leave voters that can’t admit their mistake always claim they knew it would be bad to start but just wait you’ll see in this hypothetical future it’s all going to work out for the better and you’ll thank us.

    Every highly qualified economist said it’s a bad idea but Barry 56 from Kent knows better.

  8. I remember Rhys Mogg saying that it could take 50 years for any benefit to show.

    Which is a short space of time for an undead ghoul like him.

  9. My brexiteer dad’s response to all the negative affects of brexit is always ‘the government are a bunch of traitors and that’s why all this is happening’.

    He told me he voted brexit to take back control into our own hands because he doesn’t want EU representatives ruling us. Seeing as he thinks all British politicians are traitors, I’m struggling to see why he thinks removing EU restraints on these swindling treacherous tories gives back control to the British public. He traded a lesser evil for a worse one.

  10. Politicians lie for the benefit of themselves and the folks who fund them under the table. Some political groups more than others… depending on how gullible they think the public is and over the last 20 years or so, it seems that the Politicians have found that not only are we gullible but if you combine that with a lazy or compromised media then stupid will always win the day.

  11. This is why the structure of the initial referendum was farcical.

    There is no conceivable way we’d know exactly what we were signing up for. That allowed for Leave Campaigns to spin whatever yarn they wanted about £350m for the NHS etc.

    Had we actually had the discussion with Europe, then put it to vote, at least as a nation the outcome would have felt more definitive. Now we have a total mess whereby you have hardened Brexiteers desperate to justify the decision, Remainers feeling vindicated that all this has blown up, and then a middle ground of people either questioning their choice or not entirely sure what this will mean long term.

  12. I’m pretty sure you promised spitfires airdropping British Bulldogs with little strawberry jam canisters around their neck to the bunting and crumpet parties that would be held daily on every street.

  13. Its ok we will struggle and let them off because they ‘Got Brexit done!’

    ‘We got our country back’…ha ha. Mugs.

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