Brexit

[Hymie]

Private Eye Number Crunching

£20bn – amount that, as a keen Brexiteer in 2016, Rishi Sunak said ‘we will immediately save’ on leaving the EU

£80bn – Long run annual cost to the UK economy from leaving the EU as assessed by the Office for Budget Responsibility

[Old_Geezer]

They should replace their crystal ball, their present one seems faulty.

[royfromaus]

And yet.

https://twitter.com/guyverhofstadt/status/1587863095699034112

[Hymie]

Despite the £80bn annual cost to the UK economy as a result of Brexit, some posting on this site still support Brexit – just what planet are these people on?

[royfromaus]

Note...this was posted by non other than Guy Verhofstadt

//This picture says everything about the weakness of EU sanctions…//


https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fgk5EaOXEAMKd1x?format=jpg&name=900x900

Have you anything to say about it, Hymie?
This is your precious EU he is talking about.

[Zacs-Master]

Hymie, where are you getting your OBR data from? If I go to their website, the latest data (26th May 22) says:
'will reduce long-run productivity by 4 per cent relative to remaining in the EU'

'Both exports and imports will be around 15 per cent lower in the long run than if the UK had remained in the EU'

https://obr.uk/forecasts-in-depth/the-economy-forecast/brexit-analysis/#assumptions

[Meaghan27]

I know lots of people who regret ticking the 'Leave' box in the Brexit referendum. I know why they clicked it in the first place, to try and slow illegal immigration from France. Unfortunately, that issue is getting worse and worse .

[naomi24]

^that’s not why I ticked the ‘Leave’ box - and I haven’t changed my mind.

[cashier]

I don't know anyone who has changed their mind which ever way they voted. No one I know voted to stop illegal immigration from France. I would vote leave again. I did in 1975 and 2016.

[Meaghan27]

Polls found that the main reasons people voted Leave were "the principle that decisions about the UK should be taken in the UK", and that leaving "offered the best chance for the UK to regain control over immigration and its own borders." Wikipedia

[Meaghan27]

16.30 I said lots of people I know. I don't know you.

[naomi24]

You don’t know me - and your pollster didn’t ask me.

[Zacs-Master]

'the main reasons people voted Leave were "the principle that decisions about the UK should be taken in the UK'

I wonder if their vote might have been influenced had they known that every EU law would be enshrined in UK law under the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018?

[Meaghan27]

user naomi The information comes from part of a project funded by the Economic and Social Research Council . There is a report you can download and I can supply a link if you are interested

[naomi24]

I’m not interested. We voted, we decided fairly and squarely - and six years on the losers are still whinging.

[Meaghan27]

I was merely stating a personal observation, not whingeing. You may have had other motives, but it's documented by impartial organisations that many voted to leave the EU to regain control of UK borders and try and stop illegal immigrants coming in from France.

[Zacs-Master]

As you can see, none of them will admit that openly, meaghan.

[THECORBYLOON]

Were illegal immigrants not illegal when we were in the EU still?

[naomi24]

Nonsense. The boats full of illegal immigrants from outside the EU weren’t coming then as they are now. If anyone did vote ‘Leave’ on the issue of immigration it was the influx from EU they we’re concerned about - the fact that over 400 million people had free access to this country.

[Canary42]

https://ibb.co/ggFYTyC

[royfromaus]

Fun fact

Only remaniacs know lots of people who regret ticking the 'Leave' box