Quote Originally Posted by Elwood Blues View Post
Roger Bootle is the founder of Capital Economics He is also currently its chairman.

In May 2020 he said

"All along, the costs and delays to be incurred by business once we have fully left the EU were grossly exaggerated – even if we leave without a trade deal and trade with the EU under WTO terms. Most of our non-EU trade, including with our largest single trading partner, the US, is currently done on WTO terms."

Note the words in bold.

He also said in June 2020

"Turning to Brexit, Mr Bootle argued it was unsurprising that the transition negotiations have gone badly – this will not be for economic reasons, but rather because of political considerations on the EU side. He said the EU tends to do deals at the last minute. Mr Bootle said there was no risk if the UK left the single market and customs union on WTO terms. He argued that whatever difficulties there would be, these would now be easier to absorb because volume of trade will be much lower thanks to Coronavirus. Mr Bootle maintained that the case for exiting transition on time remains very strong."

So from his comments in bold he couldn't see any problems with no deal so presumably didn't see any with the deal we got.


You obviously didn't follow the work of the chairman of the company Sludge. To be fair, I will note that he is a known Eurosceptic
You are right, I didn't, I had a feed from his analysts who were certainly not saying what he was . I will get on to them straight away . Capital Economics are used by many investment banks due to their forecasting . I shall follow my nose .