This page is reserved for those who still seem to believe that Brexit is going to be an untrammelled success - even with the pound effectively devalued so that we are all about 20% poorer now (mid October 2016) than we were on June 23rd.
MICHAEL GOVE
Michael Gove was prominent in the leave campaign but was sacked by Mrs May and has returned to journalism at The Times. He has a column with an article attacking remoaners (HERE). He says the British public didn't like being patronised and "slut-shamed" and hence voted to leave. He was the one who told us Britain had had enough of experts. His piece is covered in The Independent next to an article predicting the exchange rate in three years (HERE) will be less than $1 to a pound!
RICHARD TICE
Mr Tice is co-chairman of leave means leave and has a piece in Conservative Home attacking The Treasury for their forecasts which he believes are wrong and thinks leaving the EU will increase revenues (HERE). We shall return to this in the next year or so and see if he was right or The Treasury was.
Mr Tice has also prepared a report apparently showing that banks in the UK would be $14Bn better off out of the EU (HERE). This is very odd given that we see reports almost weekly saying various banks are preparing to relocate staff to other cities in the EU. He seems to think the banks are preparing to give up billions of dollars in order to mover their business unnecessarily - either that or they don't believe him!
CHARLES MOORE
In a completely delusional piece Mr Moore seems to believe Brexit has restored Britain's imperial past (HERE) or at least halted it's post imperial decline. He doesn't even think it is going to do it but that it already has. If the ravings of a lunatic are of interest to you take a look.
ALASTAIR HEATH
Mr Heath is another mad brexiteer who doesn't believe in experts. He thinks economists as a profession were all wrong (HERE) and that "we need a proper Parliamentary inquiry into the failures of the Treasury model and official forecasting before and after Brexit". No one seems to have told him pre-referendum forecasts were based on article 50 being triggered immediately. This will now happen in March next year. I look forward to seeing his grovelling apology.
FRASER NELSON
Mr Nelson is another one taking aim at the forecasters who though article 50 would be triggered straightaway (HERE) and questions why "so many intelligent economic analysts and commentators get it so wrong? How did some of the finest minds in Britain get themselves worked up into such a state that they predicted an immediate recession? How did the infamous Treasury dossier get out of Whitehall? When it published forecasts of an immediate GDP contraction of up to -1.0pc for Q3 alone, why wasn’t this immediately rubbished by people who should know better? Why was it treated so credulously?". Another apology to look forward to when Brexit actually happens.
STEPHEN POLLARD
Everything is going swimmingly according to Stephen Pollard in The Telegraph (HERE) and remoaners have been "put to the sword" by good economic news about growth in the economy and the Nissan and Heathrow decisions. "This week’s succession of good news stories showed that the open, trading, outward looking model of a 21st-century economy might actually be on its way". Or not - let us see.
DOMINIC FRISBY
Described as a financial writer and comedian, Mr Frisby has an article in The Independent (HERE) saying Mark Carney is to blame for the collapse in sterling and not Brexit. I think we will see this increasingly in the coming years. Whenever, the problems that remainers forecast would happen actually happen, leavers will claim some other cause. I suspect even if we eventually are all walking round in rags, living in squalour and eating grass leavers will say this was always going to happen in any event.
DAVID GREEN
Writing in The Spectator, David Green (whoever he is) says we don't need to use bluff in the forthcoming negotiations (HERE). He says, "the Government’s insistence that we should not give away our hand in negotiations with the EU has backfired. It is putting us in a weak position because the primary reason for not giving away your hand is when you are bluffing. We are not bluffing. We are in a strong position and should take maximum advantage of it". Delusional!
DOUGLAS CARSWELL
In a piece for Brexit Central, Mr Carswell the UKIP MP, quoting Open Europe, claims (HERE) we will be able to save £600 million a week if we don't abide by EU regulations. These, he says stop us selling things that people want to buy - but thw whole point of regulating a market is to protect consumers and ensure they get things which are safe and are not misled by manufacturers and advertisers. And everyone else thinks being out of the single market will cost us billions and won't save the £30Bn a year that he says it will.
Incidentally, this is the same person who thinks the sun causes tidal movements on earth!
THE TELEGRAPH
The Telegraph's view of the November 2016 Autumn Statement (HERE) is clear. Despite the uncertainties over Brexit, Mr Hammond was alert to the importance of sending out a positive message – of a “Britain open for business” and able to control its own destiny. But there is still too little in the way of a coherent narrative from the Government, and from Mrs May in particular, about where they expect the country to be in two or three years’ time. People are getting impatient and here was the chance to join some of the dots. Unfortunately, the picture is no clearer. No acknowledgement yet that brexit is shaping up to be a disaster.
JAMES FORSYTH
In a completely delusional piece for The Spectator (HERE), James Forsyth claims that in the forthcoming negotiations with the EU we hold all the aces. I'll repeat that - we-hold-all-the-aces! As usual with these people, they always include a bit of a get-out clause. Mr Forsyth concludes with, "Britain has not yet served formal notice that it intends to quit the EU — so no one can say with any certainty how Brexit will go. Thanks largely to sheer luck, however, Theresa May has a better hand than she could have dared hope for when she took office. Now she must play her cards right to make Brexit a success." In other words if she fails it will all be her fault.
LARRY ELLIOT
Mr Elliot writes for The Guardian but seems like a brexiteer. He says all the scepticism about a brexit apocalypse is justified (HERE). He also thinks because things have not yet gone south, they never will.
Everything is going swimmingly according to Stephen Pollard in The Telegraph (HERE) and remoaners have been "put to the sword" by good economic news about growth in the economy and the Nissan and Heathrow decisions. "This week’s succession of good news stories showed that the open, trading, outward looking model of a 21st-century economy might actually be on its way". Or not - let us see.
DOMINIC FRISBY
Described as a financial writer and comedian, Mr Frisby has an article in The Independent (HERE) saying Mark Carney is to blame for the collapse in sterling and not Brexit. I think we will see this increasingly in the coming years. Whenever, the problems that remainers forecast would happen actually happen, leavers will claim some other cause. I suspect even if we eventually are all walking round in rags, living in squalour and eating grass leavers will say this was always going to happen in any event.
DAVID GREEN
Writing in The Spectator, David Green (whoever he is) says we don't need to use bluff in the forthcoming negotiations (HERE). He says, "the Government’s insistence that we should not give away our hand in negotiations with the EU has backfired. It is putting us in a weak position because the primary reason for not giving away your hand is when you are bluffing. We are not bluffing. We are in a strong position and should take maximum advantage of it". Delusional!
DOUGLAS CARSWELL
In a piece for Brexit Central, Mr Carswell the UKIP MP, quoting Open Europe, claims (HERE) we will be able to save £600 million a week if we don't abide by EU regulations. These, he says stop us selling things that people want to buy - but thw whole point of regulating a market is to protect consumers and ensure they get things which are safe and are not misled by manufacturers and advertisers. And everyone else thinks being out of the single market will cost us billions and won't save the £30Bn a year that he says it will.
Incidentally, this is the same person who thinks the sun causes tidal movements on earth!
THE TELEGRAPH
The Telegraph's view of the November 2016 Autumn Statement (HERE) is clear. Despite the uncertainties over Brexit, Mr Hammond was alert to the importance of sending out a positive message – of a “Britain open for business” and able to control its own destiny. But there is still too little in the way of a coherent narrative from the Government, and from Mrs May in particular, about where they expect the country to be in two or three years’ time. People are getting impatient and here was the chance to join some of the dots. Unfortunately, the picture is no clearer. No acknowledgement yet that brexit is shaping up to be a disaster.
JAMES FORSYTH
In a completely delusional piece for The Spectator (HERE), James Forsyth claims that in the forthcoming negotiations with the EU we hold all the aces. I'll repeat that - we-hold-all-the-aces! As usual with these people, they always include a bit of a get-out clause. Mr Forsyth concludes with, "Britain has not yet served formal notice that it intends to quit the EU — so no one can say with any certainty how Brexit will go. Thanks largely to sheer luck, however, Theresa May has a better hand than she could have dared hope for when she took office. Now she must play her cards right to make Brexit a success." In other words if she fails it will all be her fault.
LARRY ELLIOT
Mr Elliot writes for The Guardian but seems like a brexiteer. He says all the scepticism about a brexit apocalypse is justified (HERE). He also thinks because things have not yet gone south, they never will.
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