We've all been debating the role Brexit is playing in GDP & trade figures for 2 years now.
But while *we* can PHYSICALLY point to the ways Brexit has made trade more expensive👉🏿paperwork, border checks...
What can Brexiters point to, to say this is HOW Brexit has helped?
It's why they accuse us of being biased with positive data. "#DespiteBrexit"
When we see a positive change in trade and don't accept that it's a Brexit success... That's because it would be nonsense to conclude that having more barriers to trade can ever be a positive for trade.
The most common example will be some big business that sees a positive trend in their EU trade.
Congrats!
Do you know WHY the larger businesses might be seeing a windfall?
Because the additional trade costs have choked smaller ones to death!
Some people are sharing a story of the 4 MEPs charged with corruption, as if it justifies Brexit. 🙄😬
A) They were ACTUALLY arrested over €600,000. Tory Lord Michelle Mone pocketed £29 million and is still at large!
B) None of it cancels out the £100 billion Brexit has cost.
Every time you interpret any flaw in the EU as automatically justifying Brexit, you make it that much harder to not call you stupid.
And I mean that literally... Because that kind of binary thinking means you literally can't process complex concepts.
In 2020 the government admitted the customs docs ALONE would cost businesses £7billion/year.
Imagine seeing €600K was lost on fraud (≈ €100K from UK) and all of it was recovered, and thinking "Yeah, that's worth billions a year. I'm a smart person!"😬 ft.com/content/fbc6f1…