Comments on: Leaving the single market would be madness and the government know it

By: Will

Will — Mon, 13 Nov 2017 22:34:58 +0000

Jonathan Bagley.
No one should pay any attention to what those two duplicitous Tories said during the referendum campaign which plumbed new depths of misinformation and lies on both sides.
The fact is that pretty well all the economic modeling carried out by both academic economists and business has concluded that Brexit will be damaging to the economy and any deal resulting in barriers to the Single Market ( Hard Brexit) will be very damaging, causing a recession in the short term and an incremental loss of growth over the long term.
The Pro Brexit politicians know this but are now stuck riding the brexit tiger and can not admit to Leave voters that living standards and public services will be cut if we can’t come up with a deal.

By: NMac

NMac — Mon, 13 Nov 2017 16:02:11 +0000

The nasty Tory Brexiteers who appear to dominate the minority government are a thoroughly dishonest and corrupt crowd.

By: Jonathan Bagley

Jonathan Bagley — Mon, 13 Nov 2017 15:46:53 +0000

In the run-up to the referendum, both Cameron and Osborne stated clearly, on national TV, that leaving the EU meant leaving both the Customs Union and the Single Market. You can find these speeches on YouTube. The House of Commons voted 6 to 1 to hold the referendum. The population generally votes for a party, not an MP. The Conservative Government told us we are leaving the single market and the Customs Union.