Keir Starmer Announces Resignation

[Brad Sallows]

Sure thing. But when it comes to governance, the population isnt giving UK PMs grace to deal with those economic costs.

Now that the UK has full control over itself, UK PMs are in part not being given grace because they're moving too slowly making changes voters want made on matters other than purely economic/fiscal. All the recent headlines were about censorship, highly unsatisfying choices about which people are permitted room to misbehave and which are in trouble if they express a contrary opinion, and the specific behaviour of a few immigrants and the people who, apparently, enabled them because they were cowed by some variation of identity politics. Economy wasn't mentioned much.

They want their services, they dont want higher taxes, the UK economy cannot function because the financial sector doesnt have the seamless access to the continent.

Pretty much every country and many of their lower level governments have revenue-expense imbalances on the adverse side right now. Not really much point singling out the UK. Maybe people who favoured Remain are having trouble letting go.

Talk sovereignty all you want, brexit broke the UK. And now nobody can run it.

Brexit was effect, not cause. The UK was already "broken", if "broken" just means there's a ruling class that persists in trying to govern the country at odds with a majority of the governed. Governments all over Europe are having that problem. In each case, something is going to give. The governing classes are remarkably obtuse and determined to have their way, so my money is on the people eventually overturning all the card tables.

 

[Colin Parkinson]

The revolving door at 10 Downing is unsurprising given the economic issues prevailing over the past decade or so...

How Brexit has made Britain poorer – in charts​

Forecasters were wrong about an immediate recession but right that we would be worse off outside the EU

But experts agree the long-term forecasters were on the money: the economy is significantly smaller than it would otherwise have been, trade has suffered, business investment and productivity growth have stalled, and families are on average thousands of pounds a year worse off.

How Brexit has made Britain poorer – in charts

Forecasters were wrong about an immediate recession but right that we would be worse off outside the EU

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Keeping in mind the leaders of the EU need to punish the UK, to keep the lesser nations inline, otherwise they might up and go as well. We are still in "punishment" stage, adding in Covid as well. I will argue that it is far to early to tell whether it is a success or failure.