I should also say thanks Gareth for the great header. I've also only just noticed how your name abbreviates to GOTV, very clever! (View Post)

Farage is typical of the kind of people who want to bring down the establishment: close enough to it to resent his exclusion all the more. Very like Trump in that respect. A chip on his shoulder you … (View Post)

Exactly. Impossible to prove because as you say economics is not an experimental science. However the bulk of evidence at the micro and macro level as well as economic theory and common sense suggest… (View Post)

Germany is the sick man of Europe faced by a devastating energy price shock. If you compare the UK to the EU as a whole we were clearly outperforming in the decades running up to Brexit and since the… (View Post)

The UK used to grow faster than the EU average both in aggregate GDP and in per capita terms, and since Brexit has grown slower than the EU average. How much of that one attributes to Brexit will alw… (View Post)