Thread by @OriginalWhig

Wow. The @Telegraph recants:
"Predictions on economic consequences of #Brexit, dismissed as "Project Fear", have been on a long fuse but turned out to be overwhelmingly correct & if anything underestimated both the calamitous loss of international standing & scale of damage."

"Perhaps I exaggerate, but not since the humiliation of the International Monetary Fund bailout in 1976 have we seen an unravelling quite as spectacular. This too from a Tory Government with a substantial overall majority. It is scarcely believable."

telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/…

"If it had been done differently it might have succeeded, but it was not. We'll be paying the consequences in reduced standing and prosperity for years, if not decades, to come."

Yes, you read it right: The @Telegraph is now recanting on #Brexit.

Read that again.

First conclusion: Messrs. Boris "Mr Brexit" Johnson, Michael Gove & other #Brexit cheerleaders must never be forgiven for wreaking this monumental act of national self-harm upon their own country - and persuading its people to do so.

Second conclusion: former #Remain MPs who opportunistically claimed a Damascene conversion to #Brexit must explain why we must ever listen to anything they say ever again.

Third conclusion: @JeremyWarner and his fellow #Leave supporters must apologise, profoundly & deeply, for the years of abuse, insults, name-calling & vitriol directed at utterly sincere & now proven correct advice that #Brexit would be this kind of disaster.

Fourth conclusion: we must, as a nation, pause to understand how on earth we collectively lost our heads over #Brexit - not least, how we allowed social media to cause tribal warfare that obliterated reasonable & respectful debate in all areas of life & normalised toxicity.

Fifth conclusion - and most important of all: those on the #Leave side who recant must join with the #Remain side and work out, together, how the hell we get out of this mess. Is it Rejoin? Is it something else?
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@Telegraph And so it goes on: now another big-name columnist says Brexit has torpedoed Britain:
telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/…