{"id":589051,"date":"2025-11-23T16:12:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T16:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/589051\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T16:12:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T16:12:17","slug":"brexit-economic-sabotage-and-vandalism-says-reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/589051\/","title":{"rendered":"Brexit &#8216;economic sabotage and vandalism&#8217;, says reader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  An act of pure economic sabotage and vandalism.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Politics is finally catching up with economic reality.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The OBR (Office for Budget Responsibility) estimates it has wiped four per cent from our economy.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  More: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worcesternews.co.uk\/news\/25631347.16-photos-lost-worcester-community-pubs\/?ref=ial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">16 photos from lost Worcester community pubs<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  More: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worcesternews.co.uk\/news\/25634737.five-beautiful-homes-sale-swimming-pools\/?ref=ial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Five beautiful homes for sale with swimming pools<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  More: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worcesternews.co.uk\/news\/25629843.readers-views-powick-old-bridge---think\/?ref=ial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Readers&#8217; views on Powick Old Bridge &#8211; what do you think?<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The resulting suppression of wages and loss in revenue for the treasury have increased the likelihood of tax rises in the upcoming budget.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  New polling by Best for Britain shows three in five Brits now see Brexit as a failure with seven in 10 of these voters blaming Nigel Farage.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  His silence on the subject speaks volumes.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Alongside pointing out the problem and those responsible, the government must increase efforts to work with the EU to undo the damage.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  They must go further and faster in removing barriers to trade \u2014 unlocking growth, pushing prices down and putting money back in people\u2019s pockets.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <strong>Andrew Wilson<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <strong>Worcester<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An act of pure economic sabotage and vandalism. Politics is finally catching up with economic reality. The OBR&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,748,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-589051","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-brexit","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european","13":"tag-european-union","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115599896950025986","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}