ExpIt!
By Mitch Berg
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
So – did British unemployment “really” fall following Brexit? That was entirely contrary to expert predictions.
Or did the government massage the figures to hide the decline, as we do in the United States?
Joe Doakes
Weird.
I’m sure there must be some mistake.
August 24th, 2016 at 8:52 am
What shall eTASS do now that just about every major brexit doomsday prediction has – so far – not materialize? My, my, my. The handwringing, the walk backs, the painful moving of the goal posts. It will be very entertaining to watch. In 3… 2… 1…
August 24th, 2016 at 9:27 am
It is as if the people actually making the decisions about things like trade agreements and so on are not complete blithering idiots, and companies have clued in to this. Good for them!
Now if only the pundits can get the same clue….
August 24th, 2016 at 11:22 am
“Facts are meaningless! They can be used to prove anything.” Homer Simpson
A very British arrangement: the worst of all possible worlds. ‘We’re not going to stay but we’re not going to start going either’. In all probability a re-run would result in a huge majority for Remain. When you’ve made a huge mistake it’s always better to own up promptly and try to rectify it than to pretend that it’s all going to turn out OK in the end.
August 24th, 2016 at 12:14 pm
Emery mewled:
“When you’ve made a huge mistake it’s always better to own up promptly and try to rectify it than to pretend that it’s all going to turn out OK in the end.”
Brings back painful reminders of the gerbil disaster, doesn’t it cowboy? How long did you leave that poor thing stuck up there before you went to the free clinic?
August 24th, 2016 at 12:43 pm
“Facts are meaningless! They can be used to prove anything.” Homer Simpson
So eTASS himself says that he is dumber than Homer since he refuses to accept facts. Such humility.
August 24th, 2016 at 1:09 pm
Theresa May she has said she will not invoke Article 50 this year. The more you look into it, the more this whole thing is unravelling.
August 24th, 2016 at 1:34 pm
And there go the goal posts! Right on cue.
August 24th, 2016 at 1:42 pm
Aside from the vote, to leave; what has changed in Britain?
The Leave campaign was based on a simple argument seen in their TV broadcast – pictures of a better-funded NHS, promises to keep out “gun-toting Turks”, and simply to “take back control”.
Well, “take back control” is all very well. But it’s what you do with “control” that matters in the end. Nobody, and certainly not the Brexiteers is at all certain what “control” means.
I don’t see any clarity emerging any time soon, as all possible scenarios have serious drawbacks.
August 24th, 2016 at 2:05 pm
Emery, the simple fact of the matter is that a large portion of what is needed is coming into place. Nations interested in the British market have approached London to negotiate trade deals, for example–and that was the biggest objection to the end of the EU in Britian–that trade deals could not have been concluded.
Now perhaps the PM is not signing article 50 or whatever, but the fact of the matter is that the vote is the law of the land until it is repealed by another vote, and London has not slid down the Thames into the Channel, but is rather implementing it. Deal with it.
August 24th, 2016 at 2:20 pm
Where on earth does the notion that this referendum is mandatory come from? Sure, it is a valid opinion poll based on a big sample and politicians should take due note of public opinion, but binding on the legislative? Clearly not. The briefing paper for the Referendum Bill states that the referendum is pre-legislative and not binding.
August 24th, 2016 at 3:41 pm
You obviously aren’t cluing in on the nature of a “referendum”, aren’t you? Here, let me help:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Referendum
Yes, it is legally binding.
August 24th, 2016 at 3:49 pm
Emery vomited:
Where on earth does the notion that this referendum is mandatory come from? Sure, it is a valid opinion poll based on a big sample and politicians should take due note of public opinion, but binding on the legislative?
Take that you unwashed, would-be masters of your own destiny. Vox civilibus, vox dei! Make way for your betters!
August 24th, 2016 at 4:39 pm
OK, I did find that Brexit is not technically legally binding, but for all practical purposes, God help the party that ignores it.
And if someone says that the guys regulating the curvature of bananas are anyone’s “Betters”, let me be the first to greet you with derisive laughter..
August 24th, 2016 at 4:53 pm
Is the EU referendum legally binding?/Can the law stop Brexit?
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-uk-leaves-the-eu-36671629
August 25th, 2016 at 8:13 am
I seem to recall certain doomsayers predicting imminent catastrophe if Brexit passed. Hasn’t happened, just the opposite.
“When you’ve made a huge mistake it’s always better to own up promptly and try to rectify it than to pretend that it’s all going to turn out OK in the end.” Quite.
August 25th, 2016 at 8:29 am
JD, facts are for little people. Especially those that do not fit the narrative. But you, unlike eTASS, can see that.