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So.. did anyone watch the video?
I'm not dodging anything. I'm just not willing to engage in bogus debate.
I'll explain what is wrong with your method. If you look around at the studies of the effect of Brexit on the UK economy, what you'll find is that all the serious ones don't do cross sectional comparisons as is your want. The reason is such comparisons would be fatuous and misleading in the extreme. No two countries are sufficiently aligned socio-economically to be able to do outcome comparisons with the only difference as being Brexit/non-Brexit.
What is far more common (and accepted by all leading researchers) is to compare the UK with and without Brexit, examining its actual time path with that of the counterfactual that Brexit did not happen. One such study was done and produced the permanent 4% reduction in UK GDP. You know who did the study? The OBR.
Pretty much every study bar one that I'm aware of finds the effects of Brexit on the UK economy to be firmly negative. the one study that (before Brexit) prophesied a positive impact was done by Patrick Minford (Thatcher's and apparently Truss' economic adviser on the recent trickle down episode). Minford got absolutely slaughtered for it by some very heavy-weight and reputable guys at the LSE because he cherry-picked assumptions and scenarios, used old data and an outdated model to astound the orthodoxy (for orthodoxy, read people who know what they're talking about).
You'll probably want to fight me next. That's apparently what you Tory boys do now when you lose an argument. Cheery bye.
Do you believe in gravity? what experience do you have in physics, and have you studied it?
You come across as a bit of a berk at times - you can read too many books. Economics is a set of theories and its at best a pseudo science. So many competing theories none of which accurately predict what is going on. Perhaps you can tell us what all the wonderful economists were doing in 2007-8 when the city traders were making a killing on the back of a falling market that was completely missed by the economists.
So you cannot cite a single comparable European country to point to who we should be emulating?
You know you can't because they don't exist.
Instead, you want to compare theories, something that has never happened. That's what academics do I guess. You also only look at what you want to; no looking at unemployment, the FTSE, wage growth vs the EU etc..
The invite remains open for you to highlight a country. If Brexit is such a disaster, then patterns should be emerging pretty sharpish. They aren't because Europe as a whole is in an almighty mess that also makes any proper analysis, let alone theoretical ones largely futile.
Of course I don't want to fight you, I don't fight anyone, and I've already said I would likely vote Labour at the next election. Now if you had a dollar for every time you said something false about me..that would be a positive looking graph!
Actually, Germans do elect their governments who determine energy policies, and they have known for a long time they were too reliant on Russia.
Here's an article from 2014 which makes for quite interesting reading through 2022 eyes
https://www.reuters.com/article/pola...0M71JA20140310
There are discrepancies between the figures shown in these two sources.
The government one (for 2018) says the deficit was down compared to the 2017 figure.
You'd need the import figures to complete the picture.
Would there be a way of normalising the figures against the value of the post-Brexit pound?
I guess the government has been bending over backwards to help big companies to get big orders out. A lot of smaller businesses have been affected by this. Do they take into consideration that some distribution centres have been moved to the EU?
Glad to see you've woken up from your nap.
The video I posted in the first post of this thread.
https://youtu.be/wO2lWmgEK1Y
How the UK became one of the poorest countries in the world.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/mark...pe/ar-AA13luEL