Quote Originally Posted by 9goals2hattricks3pen View Post
We would have to have paid the same ?39 billion had we remained So if that is part of the ?100 billion that's a nonsense.

Remain supporting Bloomberg put forward the ?100 billion. They simply extrapolated figures from 2016 and made no allowance for

Covid

War in Ukraine

Rising fuel prices

Countries that were used as a model for how the UK should perform included the US. Good comparison? No mention of German economy doing fractionally better than the UK since 2016 and the French economy slightly worse.

No wonder they got to such a silly figure.

Now if you'd have said to me the Brexit deal was a bad one I'd agree whole heartedly. Biggest change for 50 years and we'd got in charge a leader who didn't believe in Brexit. You couldn't make it up! That was followed by a leader with a one trick pony of a PM 'Just Get Brexit Done' No wonder the EU were able to 'pull our pants down'

Is Brexit working? Dunno we have tried it yet!
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I think the OBR are the best source of information and they have done post brexit analysis that has found it has cost us £32b a year since on top of divorce payments. It is likely to impact for 15 years. And yes they take into account the money paid in that we no longer are and no they dont just analyse other countries performance and make a bogus conclusion.

They measured the fact that the year after brexit we had an 18% reduction in investment, because why would you invest in a country that has restrictions on trade with its next door neighbours?

Its been 10 years and several different leaders. The cards are not in our hands to get a better deal from the EU.

The facts have to be faced up, we got nothing and we paid dearly. Totally and utterly conned by a polite rich man. Happy to take any facts on the subject of what we got vs what it cost, but I doubt anyone will locate anything of substance that changes my perspective.