And More Bad News For The Bremainers.

[youngmafbog]

I'm sure they will fond some way of twisting the figures whilst they compl their way through yet another pummet.

But Project Fear said all doom would hit us after a vote out.

http://news.sky.com/story/uk-economy-grows-05-in-three-months-after-brexit-vote-10633887

[fiction-factory]

Hopefully the good news continues (although there are negative indicators too so the picture isn't too clear yet- but it's still very early days as it's 2-3 years before we leave and a lot of businesses/people will be waiting to see the shape of the post-Brexit arrangements for the UK

[jno]

economic growth is falling, but that's good news? Callooh callay!

[vulcan42]

The good news continues.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-37787890

[youngmafbog]

jno, the good news is all the dire predictions from the Bremoaners has not come to fruition.

Whilst i appreciate you are not too keen on the British please don't try to dampen something positive.

[jno]

economic growth is falling and that's "something positive"? You're spinning it rather hard. Most countries like their economies to grow faster, not to slow down.

As for the predictions, Brexit hasn't even begun yet, so let's see, shall we?

[youngmafbog]

Now you are spinning it.

The dire predictions were predicted to occur the minute we voted out. That has not happened so would you not agree that is positive?

No we are not out of it, but how much can we trust the new wave of dire predictions/project Fear Phase II?

[jno]

whose dire predictions were predicted to occur the minute the votes were counted? Not mine. But the financial services sector dominates the economy, thd its future hasn't even begun to be worked out.

[fiction-factory]

Maybe we should forget the arguments of both sides in the debate since both sides made misleading statements and the Brexiters also offered things that that they weren't in a position to deliver . Surely it's best just to put the past behind us and help make the best of the post-Brexit world

[jno]

that's the government's job, f-f. So far those given the task of doing it seem to be squabbling and leaking, so I haven't exactly got full confidence in them. The rest of us can just cross our fingers and move our money abroad.

[youngmafbog]

Yes jno, you do that. Perhaps you would like to move yourself with it if you hate us British so much and you think it will be so dire. Why stay if it is so much better in the EU?

[ToraToraTora]

I do hope you've paid your taxes jno.

[fiction-factory]

The process is certainly complex and maybe the complexity should have been made clearer but we are where we are now. I don't see how the issue can be resolved without some squabbling since there are some very fundamental issues to debate and no clear workable way forward that can satisfy the expectations of those who may ultimately be disappointed at some of the realities of the world, but the government knows that its chances of reelection depend on making this work so let's hope they succeed.

[ToraToraTora]

YMB, do you think the EU could refurb the Calais jungle to accommodate the anti British, so they can apply for asylum in the EU? Obviously they'd have to build a few Tibetan Tea shops and set up some community centres so they can pray to the might Junckers but I reckon they could manage it.

[fiction-factory]

Ah, a dig at Gromit and he hasn't even posted

[jno]

taxes are for little people, TTT. You wouldn't expect Trump to pay them, now would you?

[RandyMarsh]

Bremainers, remainiacs. Can we stop this now pls?

[ToraToraTora]

there's a book out now: http://tinyurl.com/hxyfz53

[RandyMarsh]

you may have run that joke into the ground now. :)

[Gromit]

Er, dod you read your own link, growth is DOWN on the previous quarter.

[New Judge]

“whose dire predictions were predicted to occur the minute the votes were counted?”

Leaving aside your predictions, jno, here’s mention of a few:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/aug/20/brexit-eu-referendum-economy-project-fear


“It put the wind up businesses, making them warier about investing in new kit. And at least some of the people who voted remain did so because they were worried about the economic consequences of leaving. That was hardly surprising, given the regular and lurid warnings – from the Treasury, the Bank of England, the International Monetary Fund and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development – about the dire consequences that would inevitably flow from Brexit.”

“By now, Britain was supposed to be reeling from the emergency budget George Osborne said would be necessary to fill a £30bn black hole in the public finances caused by a plunging economy. The emergency budget is history, as is Osborne.”

“City economists had predicted an immediate rise in the claimant count measure of unemployment in July. That hasn’t happened either. This week’s figures show that instead of a 9,000 rise, there was an 8,600 drop.”

There’s plenty more where those came from. I accept that Brexit has not yet happened. However, many of the consequences forecast by “Project Fear” were to be immediate and profound. One more, which I cannot immediately find a link to, was that interest rates would have to rise immediately after the vote. Well, they didn’t did they?