Ross Clark, a journalist on The Spectator, has written a typical piece (HERE) about how the Brexit bounce has made the worried remainers and the experts who were behind the warnings look foolish. He says, "one thing is for sure: those who said that leaving the EU would lead to economic collapse, and who claimed that they couldn’t possibly be wrong because they had a consensus of experts behind them, are already looking a tad silly".
Earlier he talks about the warnings of an "immediate financial meltdown" but doesn't say who actually said this. I am not surprised because, as he well knows, no one said any such thing. He does quote Osbourne when he said Brexit might have some advantages but being economically better off wasn't one of them. I think this is right and the next few years will demonstrate it. The effects will be slowly felt as every expert said they would.
To imagine that withdrawing from privileged, tariff free access to the world's largest and richest single market is going to improve our prospects is just ridiculous.
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