I’ve got news for those who say Brexit is a disaster: it isn’t.

Oh, what a surprise, a guy who supported Brexit thinks it’s not a disaster, although a majority of people regret Brexit.
https://www.politico.eu/article/britain-brexit-fail-new-poll-nigel-farage/

[FONT=var(--font-family)]According to a YouGov poll released Tuesday, 63 percent of Britons now consider Brexit to have been more of a failure than a success — the latest piece of research which points to anti-Brexit sentiment in the U.K. three years on from the country’s formal exit from the EU. [/FONT]
[FONT=var(--font-family)]Just 12 percent of those asked see Brexit as more of a success than a failure, while 18 percent said it was neither.[/FONT]
 
Phantasmal said:
Oh, what a surprise, a guy who supported Brexit thinks it’s not a disaster, although a majority of people regret Brexit.
https://www.politico.eu/article/britain-brexit-fail-new-poll-nigel-farage/

[FONT=var(--font-family)]According to a YouGov poll released Tuesday, 63 percent of Britons now consider Brexit to have been more of a failure than a success — the latest piece of research which points to anti-Brexit sentiment in the U.K. three years on from the country’s formal exit from the EU. [/FONT]
[FONT=var(--font-family)]Just 12 percent of those asked see Brexit as more of a success than a failure, while 18 percent said it was neither.[/FONT]
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That article you posted is nearly six months old!
 
BartenderElite said:
Yeah, the whole Brexit thing didn't work out too well, did it?
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The economics editor of the Guardian would beg to differ, but what would he know compared to a poster on JPP?

Back in the 1960s and 1970s, one of the key arguments for joining what was then called the Common Market was that members of the bloc were doing so much better than we were. While Britain was living on past glories, other western European countries powered ahead. The contrast was starkest with Germany, but unflattering comparisons were also made with France, the Netherlands and even Italy. Indisputably, the six countries that formed the original Common Market grew faster and had fewer structural problems.

That argument cannot be made today. Over a prolonged period, not just since the arrival of Covid-19, the EU’s economic performance has been woeful.

Fifteen years ago, the US and EU economies were of a similar size; today America’s is a third bigger. Fluctuations in exchange rates account for some of the difference, but the US is at the cutting edge of the fourth industrial revolution and the EU is not. All seven of the world’s leading tech companies – Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Nvidia, Meta and Tesla – are American: there is no European tech giant to match the behemoths of Silicon Valley. In 2000, the EU had a 25% share in the semiconductor market: today it is 8%. The US and China are streets ahead of Europe in the development of artificial intelligence.

A number of factors are to blame for the EU’s economic woes. The one-size-fits-all nature of the single currency is one; the lack of a federal budget to match in size that of the US is another; the adherence to neoliberal economic ideas– such as tough controls on the size of budget deficits – a third. The problems go right to the heart of the EU. Its biggest economy – Germany – is expected to contract this year and has been left with a €60bn black hole in the public finances after the country’s constitutional court ruled against the coalition government’s spending plans.

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Despite its relative decline, the EU remains prosperous. It is certainly rich enough to act as a magnet for those in poorer parts of the world seeking a better life. So at the same time as its economy has struggled, the number of migrants has increased. One result has been the rise of aggressively rightwing politics. In Germany, Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) is currently second in the opinion polls with voter support running at about 22%. In France, Marine Le Pen could be the next president. Giorgia Meloni leads the most rightwing Italian government since the second world war, while in the Netherlands the anti-immigration Freedom party led by Geert Wilders won the most seats in last month’s election. Something has gone seriously awry when politics in four of the founding members of the European project have turned so ugly.

https://www.theguardian.com/comment...xit-disaster-rejoining-channel-europe-economy
 
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serendipity said:
Who is promulgating such calumny, you may well ask? None other than the economics editor of the Guardian, no less.

[h=1]I’ve got news for those who say Brexit is a disaster: it isn’t. That’s why rejoining is just a pipe dream[/h]https://www.theguardian.com/comment...SiuAkWyPVOEn7DrJVRmhnHr9w3yO81zgrs1KmYqvHjoRE
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All of Europe is racing towards suicide, and Brexit was basically nullified by the Elites....not much of anything changed....important points to remember.
 
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