There is passion and emotion in the Leave campaign but very little else. The economics are\u00a0a fantasy and I think they know this. They hope a few catchy promises like bottles of watery\u00a0Elixir sold by con men from the backs of wagons in the Wild West will be enough to convince the level headed.\u00a0Probably not. Which is why they major on immigration. Fear and prejudice are the best friends of empty politics.<\/p>\n
Now that the line up of economists, financial institutions, friendly nations, economic think tanks, international economic bodies of all kinds and almost everything with some capacity to think in numbers from the kindergarten upwards, warn\u00a0of the costs of\u00a0Brexit, the absence of any planning or ideas of how to take advantage of the new freedom if it is chosen, may well be the determining factor if it isn’t.\u00a0The fallback cries of Leave are that it is the elite who want to stay and that they were wrong about the Euro.<\/p>\n
First I had not previously recognised Gove, Boris and their friends as underclass, but this referendum experience is a learning curve. Second if we had gone into the Euro we would have enjoyed an economic rejuvenation like Germany, we would have trade \u00a0and budget surpluses, \u00a0we would be saving the equivalent of \u00a330 billion per year\u00a0now spent on housing and low wage benefits, we would not have excessive housing costs or\u00a0house price inflation and, like Germany, we would be a considerably healthier economic power than is now the case. So it depends what you mean by wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
There is passion and emotion in the Leave campaign but very little else. The economics are\u00a0a fantasy and I think they know this. They hope a few catchy promises like bottles of watery\u00a0Elixir sold by con men from the backs of wagons in the Wild West will be enough to convince the level headed.\u00a0Probably not. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malcolm-blair-robinson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10305"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10308,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10305\/revisions\/10308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}