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Thread #167409   Message #4040482
Posted By: DMcG
18-Mar-20 - 10:25 AM
Thread Name: BS: UK Politics - Another Try
Subject: RE: BS: UK Politics - Another Try
No one knows how long the impact of coronavirus might last, but several years to get back to where we were at the start of 2020 is by no means unlikely.
I hope you are correct but I suspect a very changed landscape at the other end of this crisis. Post WW2 rationing lasted in the uk until midnight on 4 July 1954


I agree - I just didn't want to say we could be stuck in BRINO for a decade, because I thought people might say I was wildly "project fear-ing"! So I gave what I thought was the shortest plausible time we could start the 'second dip' due to any Brexit effects without risking compounding the two sources of a lowered GDP (or whatever economic measure you want)

In truth, that time is only plausible if they is an unexpected turn-around in the progress of the coronavirus, such as finding an existing, already tested drug is an effective cure and/or vaccine.