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But the rich are getting richer, and that was the plan all along!
It is also a flashing red warning to any country flirting with economic nationalism, trade wars or the fantasy that sovereignty can replace integration.
I don't think any other country would be so stu-... Oh, wait a second.
Yeah, but a bunch of extremely rich people made a lot of money.
Why aren't the pro-brexit people being shamed? Stripped of their wealth and made to spend the rest of their miserable lives doing community service?
uh, because it was a referendum of the people and 17 million xenophobic idiots voted for it.
True, but also the dimwits who didn't vote at all only discovered their moral superiority the day AFTER the vote.
I guess because most of them have taken their cash and moved away (like this Dyson guy for example)
For a decade, Brexitβs defenders have insisted the warnings were exaggerated and the pain temporary. The latest evidence shows the opposite. Brexit hasnβt been a one-off hit followed by recovery β it has quietly, relentlessly drained the UK economy year after year.
The headline numbers are brutal. UK GDP is now 6β8 per cent smaller than it would have been by 2025 β worse than forecast, not better. That is a permanent loss of national income, not a blip.
Investment has collapsed. UK business investment is 18 per cent lower than in comparable economies, as firms put money on hold or moved it elsewhere. Employment and productivity are both around 4 per cent lower, locking in weaker wage growth and lower living standards.
And as a consequence, people will elect Reform at the next general election.
Yup. Cause if policy born of nationalism and bigotry couldn't solve our problems the first time around, surely we just weren't using enough of it. /s
It's easier to blame immigrants and people on benefits for the problems in the economy, than realise the real problem is the leaches at the top sucking away every spare penny the working class makes.
The landlords, the executives, the millionaires, the billionaires - where do people think their money comes from?
Everything costs more, but not because it actually costs more to make - but because the profits must always go up to fuel the hoards of the wealthy.
And everyone with half a brain cell has been warning of exactly this since when this Brexit madness started.