Brexit ‘largely to blame’ for £31bn loss to UK economy, study finds

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  1. The saddest thing is that they will absolutely blame it all on covid. There will no accountability taken, yet again.

    BoJo is working on a bill to stick a finger up to the red tape. If that goes through, there will be consequences obviously but the Tories will be whining it’s the evil EU hating us.

    They don’t care about the impact on employers, the impact on pensions, on inflation, on cutting off opportunities for young people, about upsetting stability in Ireland….

  2. Being able to look every Brexiteer in the eye and saying with full confidence they’re a moron and we were told this multiple times by multiple experts before the vote. What they predicted would happen is *exactly* what happened.

  3. But no large scale media organisation or political group will go to town on this topic as they feel they’ll immediately isolate half their audience and there’ll be no ground-swell of change to public opinion outside of these small scale articles 😐

  4. One of the things I was very confident of with Brexit was that even if leaving could bring benefits to the UK, you could guarantee our government were going to fuck it up. So congratulations.

  5. But remember that in Oceania, Brexit is a tremendous success due to the courage and guidance of our great leader, “Big Dog.”

  6. We said handing ultimate power to the Tories would end badly.

    *we didn’t listen South Park meme*

  7. I just read an article on a poll that said 16% of those who voted for leave had “expected it to go badly and had been proven right.” WHY WOULD YOU VOTE TO LEAVE THEN?

  8. Aaron Banks’s donation of 8mill+ was not Aaron Banks’s money. People like him do not give money like that unless there is certain profit in it and there was never any profit in leaving the EU.

    The money that Banks donated was Russian money (pocket change to Putin) used to weaken the EU and (to a less important extent) weaken the UK.

    Boris was an EU skeptic but a firm remainer up until a meeting with Evegny Lebedev. After the meeting he became a leaver. What did Lebedev offer him? When the referendum was done and Johnson became prime minister, the job he showed the most urgency on was to give Evgeny Lebedev a lordship (against all the advice of his security team).

    Putin wanted Brexit, Lebedev was his agent, Johnson was the mark.

  9. When the next change of government comes in perhaps the EU might be receptive for a replication back into the EU

  10. I guess this is on top of the approximately 70 billion pissed away by Sunak on shit like PPE contracts sold to friends, the failed test and trace system, general unpreparedness for inflation, and some other things I can’t recall because the conservatives are so damned incompetent it’s impossible to remember everything.

  11. Or the fact that on leaving the conservatives managed to evade some EU laws coming in about offshore money, declaration and taxation? (I’m a remainer btw) I think Cameron and Johnson have done what they set out to do! And yes they fucked us.

  12. Even if you still think Brexit is a good idea, surely you should be equally pissed at Boris for not following through on his promises. They just shoved it out and hoped everything would work out but now nobody wants to make any deals with us.

  13. It’s all worth it so we can say no to universal phone chargers.

    We’ll still get them because the EU said yes and the companies won’t make separate ones just for us, BUT at least we got to say no…

  14. Sure you can dismiss the study and say it’s by a pro-EU think tank. But you can’t dismiss the fact that the tories did what must have been nearly the worst job possible with Brexit.

    All this shit about a “Red, White and Blue Brexit” and an “Over ready Brexit” and we got a “Shit Filled Nappy Brexit”

    I voted remain but accept that leave won and we should leave but I cannot believe that anyone can accept the way this government went about it.

  15. brush that under the rug, we can find more reasons like covid and ukraine being invaded to cover up just how bad a decision this was.

  16. It must be pretty galling for Brexiteers.

    For Remainers to repeatedly warn them over and over that they’re idiots making a stupid decision.

    To tell those Remainers to go fuck themselves and then to find out 6 years later that they actually are stupid idiots.

    They’ll never admit to it though.

    Because nobody will ever listen to them again.

    Still, each and every one of them knows, deep down inside that they’re a goddamn fucking lackwit.

  17. No shit Sherlock. If you voted for it then you should be ashamed. You contributed to fucking up the country. It was obvious Brexit would.

  18. The amount of “we told you so” we’re having to do is fucking exhausting now. What an absolute joke of a decision.

  19. Brexit is a complete disaster and Trump is a criminal ringleader.

    The two most obvious things in recent history are finally being seen as what they have always been by the most
    Misled people on Earth.

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