>Hah. No. I was talking explicitly about the many professors that specialized in law and economics relating to the EU
Who couldn't be more out of touch. In 2008 the Queen was at the LSE talking to exactly these kinds of people and, quite famously asked "why did none of you see the financial crisis coming?". None of them had a good answer.
Their reputation is literally "the guys who were completely blindsided by the last economic storm". In 2016 they staked their reputation on there being another storm - high unemployment and recession to follow the vote. Two years later we can look back and confirm that once again, they were wrong. We still haven't had a contractionary quarter and unemployment is slightly down.
Now they are telling us that once we finally exit that the promised spike in unemployment and recession will happen. Frankly they might be right this time, but they'll still simply be useful idiots.
>No. What I described above is the effect of Brexit.
No, you didn't. Among other things, you mentioned negotiating a trade deal. If we stay in the common market there is no need for that. That option was firmly on the table during the vote and even now it still hasn't been taken completely off.
>Eh? Teresa May has been consistent that she wants a "hard brexit"
No she hasn't. Originally when she asked what Brexit meant she famously said "Brexit means Brexit" much to the chagrin of... well, everybody.
Yeah? Try reading your article from 2016. Pay attention specifically to the bit where they promised high unemployment and recession following the cataclysmic effect of the vote and went "this is probably right, but it's too early to tell". Well, it's 2018 and it's no longer too early to tell! Unemployment went slightly down and we've yet to experience a single quarter of contraction (and it's not like those are rare, I think 2013 was the last one?).
Try comparing your economists' predictions to reality once in a while. You might be surprised.
Ironically, I find a lot of people who are pro Brexit to be less surprised about the facts I've just shared. That's not because they're smarter, it's just because they are fed a different kind of propaganda.
Who couldn't be more out of touch. In 2008 the Queen was at the LSE talking to exactly these kinds of people and, quite famously asked "why did none of you see the financial crisis coming?". None of them had a good answer.
Their reputation is literally "the guys who were completely blindsided by the last economic storm". In 2016 they staked their reputation on there being another storm - high unemployment and recession to follow the vote. Two years later we can look back and confirm that once again, they were wrong. We still haven't had a contractionary quarter and unemployment is slightly down.
Now they are telling us that once we finally exit that the promised spike in unemployment and recession will happen. Frankly they might be right this time, but they'll still simply be useful idiots.
>No. What I described above is the effect of Brexit.
No, you didn't. Among other things, you mentioned negotiating a trade deal. If we stay in the common market there is no need for that. That option was firmly on the table during the vote and even now it still hasn't been taken completely off.
>Eh? Teresa May has been consistent that she wants a "hard brexit"
No she hasn't. Originally when she asked what Brexit meant she famously said "Brexit means Brexit" much to the chagrin of... well, everybody.
She's flip flopped all over the place since then.
>You seem to be at a severe information deficit concerning the information available to the public about brexit. Please read https://voxeu.org/article/economics-brexit-pre-referendum-vi....
Yeah? Try reading your article from 2016. Pay attention specifically to the bit where they promised high unemployment and recession following the cataclysmic effect of the vote and went "this is probably right, but it's too early to tell". Well, it's 2018 and it's no longer too early to tell! Unemployment went slightly down and we've yet to experience a single quarter of contraction (and it's not like those are rare, I think 2013 was the last one?).
Try comparing your economists' predictions to reality once in a while. You might be surprised.
Ironically, I find a lot of people who are pro Brexit to be less surprised about the facts I've just shared. That's not because they're smarter, it's just because they are fed a different kind of propaganda.