Not even Farage is arguing with Brexit costing the UK around 4% of its GDP now, and openly conceding that for small and medium sized businesses in the UK, the Brexit 'benefits' are in fact, 'nothing'.
It's not a great article TBH, repeating the absolute falsehood that the UK couldn't have done its vaccine rollout whilst an EU member (which it was when it came to the rules anyway, as we were still in transition, and could have done as a full EU member regardless), along with the usual bland platitudes about the 'opportunities' we're still missing.
But still, direct quotations and stats are always informative.
So we have the numbers here, but the reasoning is bollocks, the biggest thing that's hurt us on the small boats is losing the Dublin Regulation which we had as an EU member, the ECHR is a red herring and the latest European bogeyman.
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Farage has crawled out from under his rock to blame the EU for the consequences of the UK choosing to leave the EU (LOOK AT WHAT YOU MADE ME DO!), but he is correct that you can't argue with the figures on the hit to GDP and the fact that for UK businesses Brexit has just been a big kick in the face.
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So yeah it's not a great article, as you'd expect from The Torygraph (one of the major champions of Brexit) they can't possibly accept that the whole thing was a terrible mistake, so they simply dance around it by saying it hasn't been done properly. (Which amusingly, is what right-wingers always accuse lefties of doing when they say Socialism never works and lefties respond by saying it's never been done properly.)
Anyway, it looks like the public have increasingly made up their mind.
Brexit has destroyed multiple Tory Prime Ministers, and now it's going to be part of the reason they lose a general election. Foot, blown off.
It'll be interesting to see what Reform UK does here, they only need to be taking around 10% of the vote, which they will almost exclusively cannibalise off the Tories, to further sink them. Last time Farage started properly snapping at the Tories' heels Cameron shit himself and ultimately gave us Brexit (cheers, Dave), but there is nowhere left for them to go on the right now, we can't leave the EU again and we're already trying to launch refugees at Rwanda in big cannons, so short of declaring a Fourth Reich, I'm not really sure what they can do to head him off.
(This isn't even the worst I've seen recently, one had Labour on 50% and the Tories at 23%.)
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