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// even I as a rabid remainiac would draw the line at saying one effect of Brexit is that it wrecked the French economy .... //
No indeed, but it would not dissuade you from implying that someone else had, even though manifestly untrue, and only invented by yourself. Some tried however to point out that the French "economy was indeed a basket case well before the famous Brexit result. None of them were Remainiacs.