Honestly, it's so so good and so unrecognised.
Mainly because they'll find new role models and people that give a brick.
We had a chap in at my daughter's school giving assemblies/talks to the various age groups....hard hitting stuff, the kids were visibly effected. And that was because the chap speaking had lost his own son to a knife attack. Heartbreaking, but you could see his mission was to make everyone fully aware of outcomes and consequences.
Honestly mate, so many good people out there that are lost in the noise.
Brexit. I find that everyone's still got an opinion on it. And very few people can remove emotive bias from their opinion. Even the governor of the Bank of England:
Brexit impact on UK economy 'negative for foreseeable future', Bank of England chief says
The bank's governor, Andrew Bailey, said for nearly a decade he had been careful to "take no position on Brexit" but when asked directly about its impact on economic growth he "had to answer that question".news.sky.com
"Brexit will have a negative impact on the UK's economic growth "for the foreseeable future", the UK's most senior banker has warned."
The clear negative impact of Brexit on economic growth evidenced on an IMF chart with my scibble showing the end of the transition period:View attachment 20639
Source is the IMF. The point is that the governor of the Bank of England is publically telling people that Brexit has negatively impacted on UK economic growth. But the "facts", if anything, point to the opposite.
I don't understand, economic growth refers to one thing, GDP, which is illustrated in the gif. Economic growth is what the governor of the BoE was referring to. Although i am not actually a fan of using it as the primary measure of economic health. For example, companies like Starbucks operate a franchise model where an individual starbucks in the UK is a small business operating under a franchise agreement with Starbucks. Starbucks are domiciled in the Netherlands. When you tap your card in a UK starbucks your money credits an account in the Netherlands. Starbucks on paper make no money in the UK. The millions of £ of economic activity every day is reported in the Netherlands.
Brexit. I find that everyone's still got an opinion on it. And very few people can remove emotive bias from their opinion. Even the governor of the Bank of England:
Brexit impact on UK economy 'negative for foreseeable future', Bank of England chief says
The bank's governor, Andrew Bailey, said for nearly a decade he had been careful to "take no position on Brexit" but when asked directly about its impact on economic growth he "had to answer that question".
"Brexit will have a negative impact on the UK's economic growth "for the foreseeable future", the UK's most senior banker has warned."
The clear negative impact of Brexit on economic growth evidenced on an IMF chart with my scibble showing the end of the transition period:View attachment 20639
The OBR nor Goldman Sachs can really tell what impact Brexit has or hasn't had. All of these studies refer back to projections of UK economic growth before we left the EU. And indeed, we are significantly undsr where we were predicted to be. That however, doesn't take into account that the data this is based on is woefully out of date (admittedly, its all they have to go on) and that pretty much every other comparable country is way under where they were projected to be in e.g. 2016 due to a number of things. If i stick with the OBR analysis - they're saying we'd be 4% better off if we hadn't left the EU in terms of GDP. But that means we'd have completely bucked global trends and be sitting right on top of performers in the G7 (we are already one of the fastest growing large advanced economies). It is frankly, counterintuitive and there hasnt been any measureable negative impact from Brexit in GDP figures. The line has continued without spike or dip through 2016 to covid where there is a significant dip then spike and the trend has very acturately followed peer states such as Germany and France. Dipping and spiking at almost exactly the same time.And I am asking for examples as to how Brexit has not affected the UK's economic growth (beyond that image, which again carries little detail ort context as to how the information was collected, what the sample size it came from was, and what it specifically refers to)? An example. The Office For Budget Responsibility 'estimates that since 2020, Brexit has led to a 4% reduction in long-run productivity, which translates to a smaller gross domestic product (GDP). Analysis by Goldman Sachs similarly found that the UK economy has grown 5% less over the past eight years than other comparable advanced economies' (full disclosure, I cannot claim any held knowledge here, this is the result of an ai-driven google search LOL).
It just felt to me that your post was designed to largely denigrate people critical of Brexit, and I was interested to see some facts supporting your comment beyond that one gif. Again, please don't mistake me for a financial wizard of knowledge LOL
What is the alternative? Keep hammering the £30-40k-ers? The ones whose security has been completely destroyed by the last 15 years of Tory and now Pink Tory governments. The ones whose take homes are now the same as minimum wage. The ones who are having to use foodbanks and sleep in cars.
Inflation, lower economic growth etc. - that is a global phenomenon. These things would have happened here regardless. The EU are not a trading bloc. If that is what it was, nobody would have wanted to leave.