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Thread #162855   Message #3896406
Posted By: DMcG
30-Dec-17 - 03:51 AM
Thread Name: BS: Post Brexit life in the UK
Subject: RE: BS: Post Brexit life in the UK

Probably worse off. I know that I am.
But I cannot say that it is attributable to the Brexit vote.


That's playing the same game as Keith, Nigel. No-one is claiming it is *entirely* due to the Brexit vote. We are claiming the Brexit vote *is a contributory factor*.

And while neither I or anyone else as far as I know has done the formal analysis, it is possible to isolate the effects of Brexit by comparisons with other economies, so implying we can never know is untrue. The informal comparison with other economies such as our position in the G7 league is a good indicator of what we might expect such a formal analysis to show.

A formal analysis would certainly take days or weeks of effort, so I am not about to do so, but it is the sort of thing you might hope DexEU would have done. It joins all the other things you would have expected them to do which they haven't.