Adam, you suggest “there will be problems and screw ups, but the UK will move forward and adapt and prosper.” Do you not put any credence in the many warnings of industries such as the road hauliers, the pharma companies, the UK-based auto manufacturers, academia, research scientists, most farmers, the Bank of England and many more? Do you think the Project Yellowhammer reports are complete fiction? Do you not see how the currency markets react to every bit of news that brings us closer to a no deal exit? As the £ falls we all get poorer (unless your assets are offshore of course). And what about the effects on Ireland? Why would you wish to see a return of a hard border in Ireland, see Ireland’s economy take a bigger hit even than our own? And the projected 40,000 job losses in Northern Ireland alone from a no deal exit, a figure that is causing even the intransigent DUP to seek another way out of this?The “clean break” argument appeals only to those seeking simple solutions where none exist. The government and of course the likes of Norway-solution-is-good-enough-for-me-Farage downplay the costs of a no deal or clean break exit but offer no concrete scenarios beyond “a few bumps in the road”. Ideology has long since trumped common sense here. Did any Brexiteers really vote to make themselves, indeed all of us, poorer?
Jonathan Callaway ● 2625d