Of course the forecasts are bad: no one has a plan for Brexit
by William Keegan from on (#233FM)
The Leavers somehow managed to deflect the blame for austerity on to 'Europe'. But they are far less convincing about our economic future now
The European Union did not cause the 2007-08 financial crisis. The European Union did not instruct George Osborne to introduce an austerity policy which magnified the deleterious effects of that crisis. The European Union did not impose neoliberal and excessively deregulatory policies which contributed to a situation where the "fruits of globalisation" were concentrated in the top 5% of the population.
However, in a propaganda feat which will go down in history, the Leave campaigners managed to persuade enough British voters that the EU was the source of many of our problems, and, just as bizarrely, that leaving the EU would be the answer.
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