Brexit will make all the election spending promises hard to keep
by William Keegan from Economics | The Guardian on (#4V85P)
In contrast with the mood of largesse, economists say Johnson's deal will lower state revenues by 26bn a year
If the president of the United States, a non-European, feels entitled to air his views about Brexit, I see no reason why the outgoing president of the European council, Donald Tusk - a much more agreeable Donald - should not air his.
Quoting Hannah Arendt, Tusk said: "Things only become irreversible when people start to think so." Tusk, who rightly thinks the very idea of Brexit is, to quote another US observer, Michael Bloomberg, "a mistake", says: "Don't give up."
It would be better to tell those Brexiters who say 'the people have spoken' that, with a lot more knowledge about the implications, the people should be allowed to speak again
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