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[flagged] The damning statistics that reveal the true cost of Brexit, five years on (independent.co.uk)
14 points by SirLJ 6 hours ago | hide | past | favorite | 14 comments





We all heard the bad.

Can't be all bad.

I wonder if there was a sector that had seen a big boost since brexit and not just due to less competition but due to genuine improved efficiency.


Customs paperwork facilitators, consultants and similar service providers.

> Can't be all bad.

Why not?



Just had to wait for all the old British voters who supported it to age out.

Will it be be called Breentry?

Very nice way of saying that you can't wait for all those pesky indigenous people to die.

Not a lot of Twue Celtic Britons left these days, waves of Anglo-Saxon settlement, along with Danes and Gaelic-speaking tribes to the north pushed the RealBritons™ back to the tin mines and sea tunnels of Wales and Cornwall.

Organic war and intermixing between neighbouring related tribes over the ages is a hell of a lot different to actively importing racial aliens en masse from distant places ASAP to displace the domestic population and, as even GP concedes, alter the culture and politics in such a way that they are disempowered from even defending their homeland in a democratic manner. Even if we exclude the genocidal nature of the process, there ought to be deep concern over the government's apparent deliberate importation of voters who are statistically highly likely to support a big, powerful, censorious, dare-I-say Orwellian state over personal liberty and long-term prosperity.

Sure .. but we're not talking about the UK's colonisation of Australia.

Isn't this missing the forest for the trees? EU as a whole has been crushed by US post 2009, to zoom in and say "recent trend bad!" is really missing the meta issue.

How does it miss the issue? Sure US is doing better than all of Europe, but UK doing worse than EU.

can you explain this a bit more? how it's relevant for the topic?

TFA elides context that poor economic metrics started long before Brexit.

I don't have a horse in the race, mind. Just interesting to see 'damning statistics' that don't really hold up to scrutiny imo.




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