Brexit Costs Us £750 Million A Week. Let's Spend It On The Nhs Instead

[Canary42]

https://www.bylinesupplement.com/p/brexit-costs-us-750-million-a-week?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1162849&post_id=92047501&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email

[ToraToraTora]

The remoaners, judge, only look at monetary aspects and they are mostly discalculistic on that. They are the people that know the price of everything and the value of nothing. Standard lefty thinking.

[Hymie]

Many moons ago, I posted on this site that no matter what the economic damage Brexit inflicts on the UK economy, the Brexiteers will say it is a price worth paying – how true that post has proved to be.

Now the Brexiteers are continuing their lies, saying Brexit was never about the economy, it was about something else. You only need to check-out the hundreds of youtube videos posted back in 2016 (and after), with the Brexiteers promising the Brexit sunny uplands, and absolutely no downside to the UK from Brexit.

And still, many seem completely unaware of the fact they were sold a lie when they voted for Brexit.

[ToraToraTora]

hey Hymie me old china missed you!

[Zacs-Master]

Hymie, you’ve made 87 answers and written 8 questions with the word ‘brexiteer’ in them, so I think the infinite monkey cage theory is appropriate.
From a remain voter.

[Hymie]

And still there are people who believe that Brexit was a good idea – there appears no end to some people’s stupidity.

[New Judge]

//And still, many seem completely unaware of the fact they were sold a lie when they voted for Brexit.//

AS I keep saying, Hymie, please don't include me in that statement. I believed nothing from either side during the Brexit debate prior to the referendum. I'd made my decision almost 25 years earlier. Just as an aside, you shouldn't label people stupid simply because they hold a different point of view to you. By that logic there were more than 17m stupid people in the UK in June 2016. They couldn't all have been bamboozled by the ramblings of politicians.

[Zacs-Master]

‘ Just as an aside, you shouldn't label people stupid simply because they hold a different point of view to you’

No but it can be a coincidence that they are (stupid).

[New Judge]

//No but it can be a coincidence that they are (stupid).//

Not 17m coincidences, surely Zacs?

[Zacs-Master]

Not a believer of the multiverse theory, NJ?

[Hymie]

Yesterday I spoke to a work colleague whom I had not seen for a while, what with him working from home. I mentioned my Brexit postings on this site, and that were still many who think Brexit is good for the UK. At that he interrupted me, saying ‘I would say one thing to those people; 80 billion pounds’

To which I pointed out that I had posted this UK annual loss figure from the OBR – but that the Brexiteers refuse to believe the figure from the OBR, especially as it is reported by the BBC.

He expressed disbelief that people could be so stupid – but you and I know, people really are that stupid.

[royfromaus]

Have you found yourself in the gutter since brexit, Hymie?

[Zacs-Master]

Shocking ain’t it, Hymie. Some eeejit once predicted that Brexit would mean car insurance companies would charge more to travel in Europe because of Brexit! I mean…..how daft can you get?

[Hymie]

And how true that has proved to be with my current insurer limiting me to a maximum of 90 days driving within Europe (otherwise I will have to pay an additional premium).

[Hymie]

Zacs-Master - any chance you’d like to name that eeejit?

[Deskdiary]

Hymie at 10.49pm.

Ah, the old ‘I’m going to lie and make something up to support my argument’ ruse.

I voted remain.

[theshedman]

Hymie, I thought that since leaving the EU you were only allowed to stay in the EU for 90 days anyway so what difference does it make to your car insurance..

[ToraToraTora]

Hymie why don't you go and live in the EUSSR? It's only across the English Channel.

[New Judge]

//Not a believer of the multiverse theory, NJ?//

I might be, Zacs, if I knew what it was !!! :-)

//To which I pointed out that I had posted this UK annual loss figure from the OBR...//

Where have you done that? I've asked you the same question a number of times and got no answer. Now the bloke whose "report" is the subject of this question is quoting a figure of £40bn pa. - a disparity of 100% from yours. So where are these figures coming from?

As well as that, how is the effect of Brexit disentangled from the many other factors influencing the UK economy. To take a small example, the UK's GDP per capita is about £37,500. It is estimated that since the pandemic, there are around 600,000 fewer people of working age actually in work or seeking a job. They've simply decided they will no longer work. If they now contribute nothing to the economy when they previously contributed £37.5k each, that's £22.5bn in lost productivity.

As I've said a number of times, it matters not a jot to me whether these figures are right or wrong. But you keep on bandying them about as if they are fact and quite simply they are not. Personally I'm far more concerned about half a million or more people deciding they no longer wish to work than I am about your insurance costs and the topic I am concerned about is nothing to do with Brexit.

[Zacs-Master]

'Zacs-Master - any chance you’d like to name that eeejit?'

If you read carefully, I already did.

[Zacs-Master]

'I might be, Zacs, if I knew what it was !!! :-)'

Well, NJ, the Multiverse theory postulates that there is a reality in which anything and everything can and will occur, so we could be living in the version of the multiverse where every one of the people who voted 'leave' were, indeed, stupid.