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A thank you to Brexiteers.

nope it was from this:

" it is possible to identify the constituencies which have had the most significant change of heart over the past six years. Of the top 20, all but two are Labour seats. Barking in East London for example voted to Leave in 2016 by 60% to 40%; but now 54% of voters in that constituency think Brexit was a mistake. West Ham, Birmingham Ladywood, Dagenham and Rainham, Middlesborough, Walsall — all of these fit a similar profile: poorer areas with a very high proportion of ethnic minority voters. Many of them supported Brexit at the time, and they are now the most disillusioned of all with the project."

so in my crappy shorthand that richer areas being least disillusioned => they're happier about brexit
Sounds to me like folk in more working class constituencies have reflected on the last 7 years and concluded that things, for them, have not improved to the extent that they had been led to believe from the leave campaigns.
 
Don’t think he’s entirely wrong that a Europe happily sucking up Putins money and multiple governments seemingly in his pocket gave Putin the confidence to proceed. Alongside decades of policy failures when it came to telling him to stop murdering people

Brexit is part of that
 
Don’t think he’s entirely wrong that a Europe happily sucking up Putins money and multiple governments seemingly in his pocket gave Putin the confidence to proceed. Alongside decades of policy failures when it came to telling him to stop murdering people

Brexit is part of that
tbh the way that many western european governments have let their armies decline in effectiveness likely played its part too, britain among them US general warns British Army no longer top-level fighting force, defence sources reveal. this is something i've flagged up before, about the declining ability of uk forces highlighted in this prism, the journal of complex operations, article from 2013 https://cco.ndu.edu/Portals/96/Documents/prism/prism_3-2/prism51-60_mackinlay.pdf
 
Don’t think he’s entirely wrong that a Europe happily sucking up Putins money and multiple governments seemingly in his pocket gave Putin the confidence to proceed. Alongside decades of policy failures when it came to telling him to stop murdering people

Brexit is part of that
It was always clear that the UK leaving the EU was massively in Putin's interests. His bot farms certainly worked overtime in the lead up to the Referendum vote.
 
Which tidily brings me to the article I'd come here to post: Britain performing so badly, even Russia is forecast to have a better year


Our glorious future as an independent global economic powerhouse awaits :thumbs:
Buccaneering will be the only option left to our coastal communities. The Isle of purbeck, which in centuries gone by hosted pirates like purser and Clinton will have to resort to raiding passing ships again
 
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Which tidily brings me to the article I'd come here to post: Britain performing so badly, even Russia is forecast to have a better year


Our glorious future as an independent global economic powerhouse awaits :thumbs:

*shake fist at the unbelieving remainer swines

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I now realise that the above article was already posted above. I can't delete it now, it appears.... Worth repeating anyway.
I’ve absolutely no interest in what a Tory millionaire has to say , let alone use an article by one to back up a political position I might hold . Thanks .
 
Which tidily brings me to the article I'd come here to post: Britain performing so badly, even Russia is forecast to have a better year


Our glorious future as an independent global economic powerhouse awaits :thumbs:

No amount of thrashing or flogging the Project Fear Horse is going to save it you know?

The IMF Report - on which your article is based - does indeed make clear that Britain’s economic growth would likely have been stronger had the country voted to remain but it also shows a) that Britain’s growth was mediocre before the vote and will continue to be mediocre for some time to come, and that b) between 2016 and 2024 Britain’s economy will have grown at almost exactly the same rate as Germany’s.

The reasons for the collapse in living standards, our disintegrating productivity and the current cost of living crisis are multiple and overlapping. The idea that Brexit is to blame is laughably stupid. Repeating it over and over again in shriller terms does not change the essential stupidity of the statement.
 
No amount of thrashing or flogging the Project Fear Horse is going to save it you know?

The IMF Report - on which your article is based - does indeed make clear that Britain’s economic growth would likely have been stronger had the country voted to remain but it also shows a) that Britain’s growth was mediocre before the vote and will continue to be mediocre for some time to come, and that b) between 2016 and 2024 Britain’s economy will have grown at almost exactly the same rate as Germany’s.

The reasons for the collapse in living standards, our disintegrating productivity and the current cost of living crisis are multiple and overlapping. The idea that Brexit is to blame is laughably stupid. Repeating it over and over again in shriller terms does not change the essential stupidity of the statement.

The mythical magic fix
 
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