The wreckage of Brexit

Jan 1 2023 The Guardian

The wreckage of Brexit is all around us. How long can our politicians indulge in denial?

“I don’t deny there are costs to a decision like Brexit, but there are also opportunities, and you have to see it in the round.” - Jeremy Hunt (voted Remain in 2016)

-reduced trade,
-diminished investment,
-the UK being the only major economy not to have returned to its pre-pandemic size,
-a hit to tax revenues estimated at an annual £40bn,
-impossible passport queues,
-the queues in Dover,
-howls of pain from businesses tied up in red tape,
-the Metropolitan police buying armoured ministerial cars from the German Audi because no UK firm was “able to meet the requirements of the tender”
-annual UK car production fallen by more than half since 2016.

If ever, this is the time to use the saying:
“Never underestimate the power of denial.”