When invoking experts (thought you Brexiteers had enough of experts), you should reference you sources. But that map doesn’t have Britain standing out from Europe. Brexit has damaged the EU and Britain. It hurt us worse, but has hurt them too.
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bernieecclestoned@sh.itjust.works 11 months agoSure, you’re right and the experts are wrong.
jabjoe@feddit.uk 11 months ago
bernieecclestoned@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Lexiter.
If everywhere is fucked, nowhere is fucked
Capiche?
jabjoe@feddit.uk 11 months ago
There is no Lexit. It’s part of the ill defined Brexit blob that was all things to all people, but really, was a play for deep deregulation and racism. Though even the racism, was really just part of the play for deregulation.
Your map shows some places are improving. Though I don’t trust unlabeled sources. It is also a relative measurement not absolute. If your country is massively rich but is slightly contracting, you life will probably be better, than in a massively poor country that is strongly improving.
EU countries also struggling doesn’t help us at all. Less demand for our goods. It’s one of lies of Brexit, that economic gravity doesn’t exist. Our neighbors’ fate is always going to be part of our fate.
bernieecclestoned@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
There is lexit. A third of left wing voters votes for it. Labour are about to get into power.
Only an idiot would expect the Tories to deliver it. It’s a long term process. Undoing the environmental damage that the CAP has wrought will take decades.
Trade is at an all time high. The facts are facts, the economic effects are minimal. If you don’t change your opinion based on facts, then you’re left with beliefs. Good luck with that.
Syldon@feddit.uk 11 months ago
PMI is a comparison to YOUR previous month.. When your data point is your own economy then that has no relation to anyone else’s. The EU is in contraction because of the massive upheaval that has taken place in recent years. The EU was massively weakened by Brexit, and compounded with a pandemic. This was further exacerbated by the energy supply disruption, which in turn affect mainland EU countries more than the UK.
You are using one short term internal data point to prove an argument for something that happened in 2020 across many countries. It shows nothing but your ignorance on the subject.
bernieecclestoned@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Are you really this dense? Plus 50 is expansionary, below contractionary. It’s a prediction of economic activity. Can you seriously not see a reason why this data would be factored into investment decisions?
Syldon@feddit.uk 11 months ago
It is based on the previous month. You can have 20 months at +50 and then contract. You are using a single stat from one month to justify something that happened 3 years ago. Typical Brexiteer gaslighting. Latching onto individual stats and bellowing the “see, see, see!”. It is a fact people are much worse off since Brexit. Trying to say we are doing better than France or Germany is just ludicrous and very weak.
bernieecclestoned@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
No shit, it’s called a trend. I think you’re just being obtuse or a troll
Whatever. How about looking at all the stories of when the UK was assumed to be the worst performer in the G7.
Now it isn’t, so all that was wrong.
I don’t expect you to get this, and I’m bored
Cya