Oh Dear, Another Wheel Falls Off Project Fear.

[youngmafbog]

Looks like they want to encourage us to come, as we should them.


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6657059/Britons-able-travel-visa-free-Europe-no-deal-Brexit.html

[jim360]

There's no "oh dear" about it. Everything that happens to undermine Project Fear is welcome. Or are you really so cynical as to think that Remain supporters *want* the UK and EU to fail?

[youngmafbog]

Jim, I can assure you there will be remain supporters who will want just that.

And I think you will find a few on this site, no I dont count you in that number.

[jim360]

Well I'm grateful for that, at least. I've said it before and I'll say it again: I can hardly wait for the crowing and insults at my naivety if I turn out to be wrong about the damaging effects of a No Deal exit.

Still, they go beyond visa-free travel. This is, of course, news to be welcomed.

[cassa333]

There’s a few things project fear have been touting as reason to not leave or not leave without a punitive deal.

Slowly but surely they are being debunked.

These things should be shouted long and loud to counter project fear because once fearful it takes three times as much to allay that fear.

[jim360]

As welcome as this is, "Project Fear" warnings in their largest form are unlikely to be properly debunked for a good decade or so -- after all, that's how long it will take for long-term economic projections to be checked and verified or disproved.

I'm on board with the idea of celebrating things like this, but access to visa-free travel doesn't in any sense have an impact on the opposite news: such as large amounts of banking assets being moved elsewhere, or companies making plans to move to the EU27 rather than the UK, or customs barriers delaying the ability for free trade across the NI/ROI border and Dover-Calais, and so on.

As and when they too are debunked, I will celebrate -- but, for the time being, ignoring the potential risks is naive in the extreme.

[Quizmonster]

I haven't much of an axe to grind either way in the Stay/Leave stakes, but Project Fear was on the winning side in the Scottish Independence referendum five years ago. You may well be wise not to write it off just yet, Youngmafbog, especially given the utter horlicks the Tories have made of Brexit up to now.
(Yes, I do know the In/Out referendum has already happened, but matters are clearly far from settled even now!)

[youngmafbog]

Yes, I know QM.

I'm still holding Treason and the other anti democratic MP's fully responsible.

[naomi24]

Oh dear. What a disappointment. :o)