It’s a pity to see Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, someone who often has insight to offer, shredding his credibility in @Telegraph with near hysterical claims of a Brexit miracle.
One can only imagine the ... input received from on high which persuaded him to write it.
A short 🧵/1.
One can only imagine the ... input received from on high which persuaded him to write it.
A short 🧵/1.
https://twitter.com/telegraph/status/1382680340557336578
It’s notable that Mr Evans-Pritchard’s positive predictions for relatively higher UK than EU growth depend on the UK vaccination effort being more effective, sooner than the EU’s. And on large numbers of Hong Kong migrants settling in the UK. /2.
The former remains to be seen. There’s a lot of excitable betting on the UK hare beating the EU tortoise. Let’s wait a short while to find out. (Germany vaccinated 740,000 people yesterday).
The latter is, of course, every Brexit voter’s dream. /3.
The latter is, of course, every Brexit voter’s dream. /3.
Mr Evans-Pritchard doesn’t believe his own rhetoric. Or, if he does, he has a strange way of showing it. The article claims, by sleight of journalistic hand & attacking a straw man of “excessive negativity”, that Brexit has created a Wirtschaftswunder. /4.
Yet it quickly becomes clear the basis for this (purported) miraculous deliverance is vaccination, nothing to do with Brexit, & immigration, the antithesis of Brexit (unless Mr Evans-Pritchard knows something the rest of us don’t). /5.
And, channeling Mr Rees-Mogg, he finally reveals he hasn’t any notion whether Brexit is or isn’t a good idea & wants us all to wait a generation before deciding.
As a way of running his personal life: crazy, but fine if that floats his boat. Running a country? No thanks. /6. End
As a way of running his personal life: crazy, but fine if that floats his boat. Running a country? No thanks. /6. End
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