The economy grew by 0.3 % last quarter.
Darned Brexit.

Yes, like we were told the stock market would crash along with house prices. We now of course have had record highs in both markets.

What a Walter Mitty you are.

Remainer propaganda said that house prices would fall by 18% - they were in fact 5% higher during the year after the referendum.

Scandalous Remainer propaganda said that the stock market would experience record falls - in fact it soon reached record highs.

The Remain propaganda said that house prices would fall by 18%, they did not say house prices would rise by 5% but it would be more if we were still in the EU. Similarly, they said the stock market would crash, not that it would reach record heights, but that those heights would be even higher if we were still in the EU.

The elected UK government can do whatever it likes with the £350 million a day saved by leaving the EU. The point that the Leave campaign was making was that we could spend it on the NHS if we wanted to. Equally we could spend it on funding deviant pressure groups such as the trans lobby. The key point is that a UK government would decide.

Leaving the EU stopped free movement which gave the right to practically the entire population of the EU to come here.

Edited by georgenorman (13 Jan 2024 5.37pm)

It is and it will. But they must be making all kinds of calculations around that.

Firstly, I think the mechanism for taking us back in will be a second referendum which will come about in much the same way that Starmer and co engineered the change in Labours policy on the same matter. There will be a motion passed at the Labour Party conference to hold a rejoin vote and Startmer will proclaim it as just part of the democratic process.

Now the issue then comes about passing the Referendum Act that will enable it, and here is why Labour will need a massive majority because a number of its own MP's will object, especially the ones in the Red Wall seats. In fact, I suspect Starmer will make a it a free vote and might even abstain himself or vote against.

Then the question its self might even have three options, with one being the status quo, the second being to rejoin the single market with all that entails and the third being a straight forward rejoin. And perhaps all against a frame-work of a pretty strong, at least in terms of perception, EU anti-migration drive that will be offered up as the only way of stopping the illegals turning up on Southern Beachs in that if they cannot reach France in the first place, then the problem goes away. With all of it designed to effectively nullify the backlash. Personally I would hope for a massive boycott of it.

What comes after that will be interesting but the rejoin option will invariably be some kind of 'Treaty' that will be virtually impossible to reverse with perhaps even a 20 year minimum clause before it can be revisited.

And then....potentially gets interesting.

Edited by Matov (13 Jan 2024 1.34pm)

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." - 1984 - George Orwell.

£350 million per week wasn't it*

*personally I believe it's cobblers either way, but your claim above has a difference of several billion a week - an I'm sure you wouldn't want any misinformation being left.

Edited by robdave2k (13 Jan 2024 4.17pm)