Originally Posted by
Eric the Half a Bee
Another reply to your second point.
During Brexit there were wild claims from Prof Patrick Minford, professor of economics at Cardiff Uni about how much better off we were going to be after Brexit. He was one of the few predicting such things. He was also an adviser to the Thatcher government, a right wing economist, another totally opposed to immigration. His Brexit predictions have mainly been utter bollocks, as they were always likely to be if you have a set agenda.