Daniel Hannan, the MEP and prominent Brexiteer has written a column for The Telegraph (HERE) claiming that remoaners (for that is what he calls us) are determined to find bad news to blame on Brexit. He cites the Lloyds bank announcement about 3000 jobs being lost and 200 branches closed as being one example. Lloyds say this was planned before June 23rd and perhaps this is true, however Mr Hannan seems to think this is "good" news, because it isn't directly connected to Brexit.
He says, "On any given day, there will be both good and bad economic news. The trouble is that some of our pro-EU media are determined to see only the bad, and to attribute it all to Brexit". I concede there is some of this but see very little good economic news and plenty of bad. The majority of economists are still concerned about the future. He also thinks Britain's "jobs miracle" has continued - what the one that has been going on while we were a member of the EU? Surely not?
Daniel Hannan wants us to shut up and get on with Brexit but we are going to redouble our efforts and work ever harder to keep us in or get us back into the EU. In other words we will do what he has done for the past twenty years or more, work to see a dream realised.
In the same issue of The Telegraph Alastair Heath has written another article along the same lines (HERE) saying that Britain is roaring ahead of the US and Europe because our economy grew by 0.6% in the second quarter - while we are inside the EU I note - more than either the US or the EU. But this begs the question, why leave? If we are doing better than the US why join them in the WTO?
The Telegraph seems now to have an agenda of trying to persuade people that everything is going really well in the calm before the storm. Let us see what happens and remind them about their arguments later.
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