Thread by @JolyonMaugham

Quick! Sell food and drink; agriculture; and retail.

Remind me who'll be hit if food prices rise and the retail sector suffers?

Automotive, chemicals and pharma to "see the biggest effect on economic activity."

Starter for ten: good effect or bad effect?

Bam! That's not gonna help UK farmers.

Slight consolation for us city dwelling remainers is that it also won't help James Dyson who owns - likely for its inheritance tax advantages - circa 33,000 acres (whoownsengland.org/2017/09/19/why…) of farmland.

Still. We'll have won the splendid prize of sorting out immigration. It will fall about 10% of its pre-Ref figure.

As for those free trade agreements? Congratulations! You've won a set of steak knives! (Long term).

If we start sending our own children (there will be no migrant children, remember?) up industrial smoke stacks without protective clothing we might eke out another modest long term gain in GDP.

Overall? Let's put it this way. The EU will be pleased it's not shackled to a corpse.

If you have a job, open your eyes slowly. Because here's what it means for you.

Business services, financial services not so bad! Perhaps the Establishment won't get it after all? Other sectors... umm...

I love the North East. My family are from there. Warm, funny, hardy folk.

Don't do this to yourself.

Ze German car makers may just not care that much?

Oh, Jeremy Corbyn? ~£82bn a year less to spend on public services? That's more in cash terms than even you hoped you'd raise from *all the tax measures in your Manifesto* (£49bn).

(Perhaps roughly the same if you discount to present value)

But more than money? Think of all that is lost.

Our reduced ability to tackle the big issues - pollution, tax dodging, the power of global capital, terrorism - that don't respect national borders.

And the casting aside for our children of the privileges that were ours. /ENDS