We are not governed by opinion polls -the same polls which gave May a landslide at the general election. We had a referendum, the only poll that mattered.It was the largest vote for change in British political history. Period.
Not even multiple election winners Thatcher and Blair got more than 50% of the vote.
I predict that afer a few years in purgatory (transition) the EU will itself be re-structured into "core" plus "associate members" with a painful withdrawal from the Euro by Med countries, possibly Ireland and a few others. We will then rejoin as members of the looser group.
I was looking at a poll the other day - I can't remember which one. A curious fact fell out of the figures. A net two percentage points of Leave voters now say they voted Remain. Not massive, but curious.
Iraq war syndrome. It's hard to find anyone who will admit to being an enthusiastic proponent of it. So it will be with Brexit 15 years hence.
I think that will depend on how Brexit is overturned. If there is a second referendum and remain wins convincingly, then most people will just shrug their shoulders and get on with life. If it's a fudge with the likes of Blair, Clegg, Osborne and the rest throwing spanners in the works and it grinds to a halt, i can see it being worse for the country than actually Brexiting.
It won't be via a second referendum, if we rejoin, I think this is the most plausible route if Brexit turns out to be economically sub-optimal.
One party will propose rejoining the single market and customs union and they win the general election and implement their manifesto.
After a few years they'll propose rejoining and if they win, that manifesto commitment will be honoured.
The sooner we Leave, the sooner we Rejoin.
That's a plausible scenario, except that rejoining would mean going full-fat EU, and currently, I don't think the country is up for that. Maybe after a few years of the Brexit Apocalypse we might be....
That's why I hope Brexit turns out to be a success, I really don't want to join the single currency.
It is also why I get so frustrated at berks like JRM being so absolutist.
That's what Ultras do. In the long run they don't matter.
I was looking at a poll the other day - I can't remember which one. A curious fact fell out of the figures. A net two percentage points of Leave voters now say they voted Remain. Not massive, but curious.
Iraq war syndrome. It's hard to find anyone who will admit to being an enthusiastic proponent of it. So it will be with Brexit 15 years hence.
I think that will depend on how Brexit is overturned. If there is a second referendum and remain wins convincingly, then most people will just shrug their shoulders and get on with life. If it's a fudge with the likes of Blair, Clegg, Osborne and the rest throwing spanners in the works and it grinds to a halt, i can see it being worse for the country than actually Brexiting.
It won't be via a second referendum, if we rejoin, I think this is the most plausible route if Brexit turns out to be economically sub-optimal.
One party will propose rejoining the single market and customs union and they win the general election and implement their manifesto.
After a few years they'll propose rejoining and if they win, that manifesto commitment will be honoured.
The sooner we Leave, the sooner we Rejoin.
All of which dreaming of course ignores the reality that the EU is changing and will continue to change, becoming a far closer union than it is now with far less power for national Parliaments. The idea that the British would ever seek to rejoin after we have left is simply pipe dreams. More to the point nor would the EU want us to rejoin on our current terms after all the trouble we have cause them for the last 40 years. So you are now going to be looking at persuading a majority of the population that Euro membership and paying a much lrger contribution are both going to be a cracking idea. Good luck with that Gromit.
That's why I wrote a piece a year ago pointing out Leavers were Juncker's Fifth Columnists.
And is why you were wrong then and are wrong now. You really never learn do you.
"Economists for Brexit, a forecasting group, predicted that after a leave vote growth in GDP would expand 2.7 per cent in 2017. The Treasury expected a mild recession. Neither proved correct. The 2017 growth rate appears likely to slow to 1.5 per cent at a time when the global economy is strengthening.
According to economists such as Robert Chote, chairman of the independent Office for Budget Responsibility, which produces the official government forecasts, a more pressing question is to assess the impact compared with what would have happened had the vote gone the other way. “Many PhDs are going to be written on the impact of Brexit over the years to come,” he says.
This work has started, and includes a range of estimates calculated by the Financial Times suggesting that the value of Britain’s output is now around 0.9 per cent lower than was possible if the country had voted to stay in the EU. That equates to almost exactly £350m a week lost to the British economy — an irony that will not be lost on those who may have backed Leave because of the claim made on the side of the bus."
We are not governed by opinion polls -the same polls which gave May a landslide at the general election. We had a referendum, the only poll that mattered.It was the largest vote for change in British political history. Period.
Not even multiple election winners Thatcher and Blair got more than 50% of the vote.
And your point is ?
LEAVE 52% REMAIN 48%
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I think you must be the eminent psephologist who thinks General elections are the same as referendums.
Regrettably I don’t think anyone will find this particularly convincing.
"Julian Jessop. head of the Brexit unit at the Institute of Economic Affairs, says "lots of sensible Brexiters accept there will be short term hit and it is unarguable that the economy is weaker than it would have been ... in the long term it's all to play for."
But in the long term we are all dead, as another well known economist once observed.
Regrettably I don’t think anyone will find this particularly convincing.
"Julian Jessop. head of the Brexit unit at the Institute of Economic Affairs, says "lots of sensible Brexiters accept there will be short term hit and it is unarguable that the economy is weaker than it would have been ... in the long term it's all to play for."
But in the long term we are all dead, as another well known economist once observed.
You mean you don't care about your unborn great grand children?
"Economists for Brexit, a forecasting group, predicted that after a leave vote growth in GDP would expand 2.7 per cent in 2017. The Treasury expected a mild recession. Neither proved correct. The 2017 growth rate appears likely to slow to 1.5 per cent at a time when the global economy is strengthening.
According to economists such as Robert Chote, chairman of the independent Office for Budget Responsibility, which produces the official government forecasts, a more pressing question is to assess the impact compared with what would have happened had the vote gone the other way. “Many PhDs are going to be written on the impact of Brexit over the years to come,” he says.
This work has started, and includes a range of estimates calculated by the Financial Times suggesting that the value of Britain’s output is now around 0.9 per cent lower than was possible if the country had voted to stay in the EU. That equates to almost exactly £350m a week lost to the British economy — an irony that will not be lost on those who may have backed Leave because of the claim made on the side of the bus."
But, it's almost as much speculation as the pre-June 2016 forecasts were. How do we how a stronger pound, a narrow Remain result, a precarious Cameron as PM (as he would have been by now), and an ongoing large trade deficit would have affected jobs and investment?
We never will.
I note that Economists for Brexit were far closer to the truth than HM Treasury.
I was looking at a poll the other day - I can't remember which one. A curious fact fell out of the figures. A net two percentage points of Leave voters now say they voted Remain. Not massive, but curious.
Iraq war syndrome. It's hard to find anyone who will admit to being an enthusiastic proponent of it. So it will be with Brexit 15 years hence.
I think that will depend on how Brexit is overturned. If there is a second referendum and remain wins convincingly, then most people will just shrug their shoulders and get on with life. If it's a fudge with the likes of Blair, Clegg, Osborne and the rest throwing spanners in the works and it grinds to a halt, i can see it being worse for the country than actually Brexiting.
It won't be via a second referendum, if we rejoin, I think this is the most plausible route if Brexit turns out to be economically sub-optimal.
One party will propose rejoining the single market and customs union and they win the general election and implement their manifesto.
After a few years they'll propose rejoining and if they win, that manifesto commitment will be honoured.
The sooner we Leave, the sooner we Rejoin.
That's a plausible scenario, except that rejoining would mean going full-fat EU, and currently, I don't think the country is up for that. Maybe after a few years of the Brexit Apocalypse we might be....
That's why I hope Brexit turns out to be a success, I really don't want to join the single currency.
It is also why I get so frustrated at berks like JRM being so absolutist.
It's unclear what you want.
You want us to Leave quickly, so we rejoin quickly.
Yet, you want Brexit to be a success, because you don't want the single currency.
THE broadcasting watchdog has launched an investigation into Alex Salmond’s TV show.
Ofcom is examining whether the former First Minister’s debut show on a Kremlin propaganda channel breached guidelines on accuracy and “materially misled” viewers.
The November 16 episode of the Alex Salmond Show on RT proved controversial because of a series of “tweets” Mr Salmond read out on air.
Mr Salmond claimed there had been an “avalanche” of messages from the public.
However one tweet was attributed to an account that had never posted, another to an account that had yet to post the tweet, and one was from the show’s series director.
THE broadcasting watchdog has launched an investigation into Alex Salmond’s TV show.
Ofcom is examining whether the former First Minister’s debut show on a Kremlin propaganda channel breached guidelines on accuracy and “materially misled” viewers.
The November 16 episode of the Alex Salmond Show on RT proved controversial because of a series of “tweets” Mr Salmond read out on air.
Mr Salmond claimed there had been an “avalanche” of messages from the public.
However one tweet was attributed to an account that had never posted, another to an account that had yet to post the tweet, and one was from the show’s series director.
'Red Ken' from Nottingham says he never read the 2017 Tory manifesto.
To be fair, the number of people who have read a manifesto from cover to cover can be counted on the fingers of one hand. Our own @kle4 is one of them.
And not much worth it in the end it would seem, sadly.
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Only a matter of time...
REMAIN 48%
новосунильск, россия
And I thought it was Christmas, not Easter...
https://www.ft.com/content/e3b29230-db5f-11e7-a039-c64b1c09b482
"Economists for Brexit, a forecasting group, predicted that after a leave vote growth in GDP would expand 2.7 per cent in 2017. The Treasury expected a mild recession. Neither proved correct. The 2017 growth rate appears likely to slow to 1.5 per cent at a time when the global economy is strengthening.
According to economists such as Robert Chote, chairman of the independent Office for Budget Responsibility, which produces the official government forecasts, a more pressing question is to assess the impact compared with what would have happened had the vote gone the other way. “Many PhDs are going to be written on the impact of Brexit over the years to come,” he says.
This work has started, and includes a range of estimates calculated by the Financial Times suggesting that the value of Britain’s output is now around 0.9 per cent lower than was possible if the country had voted to stay in the EU. That equates to almost exactly £350m a week lost to the British economy — an irony that will not be lost on those who may have backed Leave because of the claim made on the side of the bus."
https://twitter.com/TSEofPB/status/942717434464698368
But in the long term we are all dead, as another well known economist once observed.
NEW THREAD
We never will.
I note that Economists for Brexit were far closer to the truth than HM Treasury.
You want us to Leave quickly, so we rejoin quickly.
Yet, you want Brexit to be a success, because you don't want the single currency.
THE broadcasting watchdog has launched an investigation into Alex Salmond’s TV show.
Ofcom is examining whether the former First Minister’s debut show on a Kremlin propaganda channel breached guidelines on accuracy and “materially misled” viewers.
The November 16 episode of the Alex Salmond Show on RT proved controversial because of a series of “tweets” Mr Salmond read out on air.
Mr Salmond claimed there had been an “avalanche” of messages from the public.
However one tweet was attributed to an account that had never posted, another to an account that had yet to post the tweet, and one was from the show’s series director.
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/15779190.Watchdog_launches_probe_into_Salmond_TV_show/?ref=twtrec