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According to Dominic Frisby, remoaners said there would be "riots, food shortages, 4 million jobs lost, no sandwiches, an outbreak of super gonorrhea, house price crash, cost of 4650 to every household, stock market crash and recession would last for years..."Not really, there's nothing stopping any national government putting whatever employment and wage laws into effect they want, in or out of the EU. Zero hours contracts and a minimum wage that is far too low, for example, have a lot to answer for. (I'd like to see the former outlawed and the latter be a lot higher.)
Also, there's not a great deal of evidence to back up the pay suppression argument, it definitely did happen to a limited degree in certain sectors, but the overall impact was a lot less than many people imagine. I'll see if I can find the studies/research into it, I was reading over some of it a few weeks ago.
Project Fear (now rebranded as Project Reality) cited labour shortages in many areas as a near certain consequence of a hard Brexit, and that's exactly what's happened.
Right let's see:
Food Shortages - nope, never seen any apart from Haywards Strong and Zingy Pickled Onions.
Riots - nope unless the 'Free Britney' campaign arrives here soon.
No sandwiches - just made one, and there's plenty in the supermarket and petrol station.
4 million jobs lost - nope, the opposite, labour in high demand as predicted by leavers.
Super Gonorrhea - not as far as I'm aware although I never get any so wouldn't notice.
House price crash - just the opposite, boom.
Cost of £4650 to each household - nope, all the same as before.
Stock market crash - nope, just the oposite.
Recession lasting for years - can't see no recession, growing economy right now although COVID's input is hard to gauge for the future.
So remoaner project fear was, well, just that.
Polexit - interesting stuff. Seems they're sick to the back teeth with EU bullshit too.
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