'Remainers' - either dim, dumb or lying liars!

Do you remember the deluge of panic-stricken warnings the 'Remainers' trumpeted, non-stop, from the minute we Brexiteers won the referendum?  It was worse than mere doom and gloom, it was full-on 'Apocalypse Now'!  Yesterday the government figures showed a 0.3% quarterly growth!  According to the redoubtable, 'A E-P' at The Telegraph, we have now enjoyed "13 quarters of economic growth since the Brexit referendum."  Sorry Phil Hammond but alas and alack you are as stupid as you look!  And so too are you, Dominic Grieve QC, the ultra-snooty, half-French 'Remainer-in-Chief' in the last parliament.  

'A E-P' takes the equivalent of a base-ball bat to Grieve and the rest of those 'lying-liars:

Totting up the exact numbers, it is no longer excusable for the Remainer establishment, the Liberal Democrats, and allied think tanks, to keep claiming that the UK economy is 3pc smaller than it would have been without Brexit, or that we are “3pc poorer” in Westminster parlance.

The total accumulated growth for the UK is 4.9pc. This compares with Belgium (4.7pc), or Germany (4.7pc) if we generously assume that there is no German contraction in the third quarter when the final result comes out later this week, not to mention Italy (3.2pc).

I will not attempt to paraphrase A E-P's learn-ed discourse, just read it, with my emphasis, and cheer if you are a Brexiteer - or weep if you are a Remainer:

The overall picture of the last three years is taking clear shape. The UK had a relatively bad year in 2017 when it was still carrying out fiscal tightening. The eurozone had a stellar year because the stars were briefly aligned: the end of austerity, the delayed effects of QE, and a Chinese mini-boom that lifted Germany, all at a time when there was still a large output gap and therefore plenty of low-hanging fruit.

That one year of 2017 distorted perceptions and allowed anti-Brexit agitators - including at times the Bank of England and the International Monetary Fund, and above all lobby groups funded by EU vested interests to foster a narrative of lost growth, which has since become an article of faith in the European and global media.

That narrative has been invalidated by the last seven quarters. The UK has grown faster (2.2pc) than the eurozone as a whole (2pc) over that period, yet there has been no acknowledgement of this levelling effect.

Of course, past statistics do not forecast the future and I, personally, suspect that there will be rocky economic times ahead much of which will be fostered by our former chers collègues who will be using every trick in the book, and some outside the book, to make life as difficult as possible for the UK.

 

 

 

Comments

[JK]

https://theferalirishman.blogspot.com/2019/11/a-video-im-trying-to-find-to-educate.html

Somehow it just seems appropriate.

[Whitewall]

“The ferocious pro-EU rearguard action does not just represent the anger of an incumbent ruling class defending its perks. It also expresses the class anxieties of the lower echelons of th[e] supposedly elite ‘open’ classes.” AV

[JK]

https://legalinsurrection.com/2019/11/uk-election-nigel-farage-withdraws-hundreds-of-candidates-move-to-boost-pm-johnsons-conservatives/#more

That what I think it is David?

[JK]

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/brexit-party-gives-boris-johnson-a-big-british-election-boost

And that one David's from a countryman of yours living here.

(Get yourself another bottle of Rebel Yell SoD, it'll be okay.)

[Whitewall]

This one too:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-11/farage-won-t-fight-tories-in-election-boost-for-u-k-s-johnson

Maneuvering under way?

[Loz]

We were growing at 3.2% per annum and at the top of the G7 or whatever G number 3 years ago before you lot rubber-ducked it up.

What a gormless attempt at a statistical justification of Brexit - even for you, Gaffer.

SoD

[Glesga]

Hillary was given space to sell her book on the BBC One Show last night and also given the opportunity to have a go at Trump. Today she is having a go at the Brit Gov for not publishing the Russia Gate.

[Bob]

Dim, dumb, lying liars or just not fooled by Russian psyops:

"Boris Johnson's Conservative party has received cash from 9 Russian donors named in a suppressed intelligence report":

https://www.businessinsider.com/boris-johnson-blocked-report-naming-tory-donors-linked-to-kremlin-2019-11?r=US&IR=T

[Whitewall]

Jimmy, your timbers should be shivering about now. Hillary has spoken of Her concern about Britain's future! Try to read without smirking! It's a short article.

https://pjmedia.com/trending/hillary-clinton-warns-the-uk-she-is-concerned-about-its-future-because-of-brexit/

[Loz]

"Let's stop fooling ourselves, the economy is in bad shape, period" ...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2019/11/12/stop-fooling-economy-bad-shape-period/

SoD

[Hank]

David

A little something to cheer you up.

https://pungenerator.org/puns?q=duff

[Glesga]

Whitewall, her boss Obama said the UK would go to the back of the queue for a trade deal with the USA. So much for our historical alliance with our friend. I just hope Trump will deliver the goods before the Democrats get him!

[Whitewall]

Jimmy, Hillary and Obama are globalist central planners thus their negative reaction to the peasants revolt that is Brexit.

As far as Democrats go...right now they couldn't "get" their naked arses in the shower. No matter how the media muckrakers frame things, the Dems have nothing but hate and sedition going for them.

[Glesga]

Whitewall, I am sure the Marines with the help of real Americans can handle a wee bit of sedition.