Emeritus Prof Christopher MayMar 17

For some reason I think its necessary to say this:

Anyone who's saying that we should stop blaming Brexit for the UK's economic travails knows little about economics.

Certainly, the UK's economic problems pre-date Brexit, but the departure from the European Union has compounded & worsened pretty much every negative trend that the UK suffers from....

To deny this is world-class bulls*t.

#Brexit #news #UK

[apologies, spotted this headline in the supermarket earlier & it pissed me right off!]

Show threadNexusMar 17
@ChrisMayLA6 What do you think of the proposal by Josep Borrell, the former High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs, that the European Union needs to be reformed with fewer but more integrated countries? Do you think the UK would reconsider something like that?
Show threadEmeritus Prof Christopher MayMar 17

@Lubnadecordoba

In a word, no.... the UK's political class has always favoured a wider shallower EU, not a more focussed, deeper one

Show threadNexusMar 18
@ChrisMayLA6 But what about people? Especially young people? Have you changed your view after Brexit? In Spain, there is more and more nationalisms and even LOCALISMS and I would like to know how it is evolving there.
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@Lubnadecordoba

I've not changed my view, I was always a Remainer, but our political class has a view of the UK's 'specialness' that makes the acquiescence to perfectly reasonable conditions set by the EU as unacceptable, meaning without a major shift in political culture there is unlikely to be any successful move to rejoin, in the next decade (in my assessment)

Mar 18 at 6:26amWeb