Quote:Obama, The IMF both backtracked aftwerwards, the others want to deals with us. Gove was bang on about the Eurocrats wanting to play an independent UK down, as a net contributor they were desperate to paint our exit as a doom and gloom story - disgusting behaviour. A degree in PPE does not an expert make and the more of these career-politicos sent to pasture the better.
Backtracked on what? Nor has anything happened. We are today still fully paid up members of the EU. The fact that the pound has dropped significantly suggests that the experts predations may well come true should we leave the EU. Frankly nobody knows what is happening right now, anybody wanting to do business in the UK will take that into consideration, investment in the UK will inevitably be slow until we at least know what is going to happen.
And what Gove said is quite clear “we’ve had enough of experts” and no he wasn’t talking about politicians, he was talking about economic experts. He then said people should ignore the experts and people should “trust themselves”
It’s breath-taking.
Quote:For me it comes back to a simple fact that the EU is never going to reform
The EU has been slow to listen, but it will have to reform. If it is to survive it has to, and it has to get better.
And yes there is the possibility of the EU crumbling. Do we really want to go back to 28 separate countries, 28 separate currencies, 28 separate economies all with their own taxes and tariffs, 28 different legal systems to deal with, 28 different standards in every sector you can think of.
Not to mention what was the inspiration, the motivation for the EU in the first place.
If this happens, never mind the evitability of the UK economy shrinking if there is a hard Brexit but in the event of the collapse of the EU every economy within the EU will shrink.
What those who voted leave on the 23[sup]rd[/sup] of June voted for was to become poorer. You could say that this is the first time that people have been offered a recession and voted for it. Ignore the experts indeed!
But to be honest one of two things will happen;
We will remain full members of the EU as we are today. (it just takes time for people to understand that there is no advantage in leaving – not to mention it’s a nightmare getting out.)
Or
We Brexit but pay to access the single market and accept free movement (which will pretty much mean paying what we pay now – no discount on a new deal – but having no say in how the EU reforms.