I have always said I would be more than happy to be proved wrong about brexit. This thread has always offered the opportunity for the leavers (or in Iains's parlance, rightards) to offer a glimmer of hope for a bright future. To date any forecast providing such assurances has been spectacularly absent. The only reliable forecasts, including by every major financial organisation, every school of economics and every notable economist has told us it will be an unmitigated disaster. Who should I believe? Everyone who has seriously studied business and economics or the mudcatters who are full of optimism but cannot explain why?