> So when Brexit happened, and all those predictions happened
None of them happened. There weren't rampant food, fuel, and medicine shortages and mass deportations, and Britain didn't become a Mad Max wasteland.
The pound lost a few cents, and then a couple of years later, when everything was dropping against the dollar (because of US interest rate decisions) and all of Europe is having fuel problems for obvious reasons, these things also happened to Britain. What part of not doing Brexit would have prevented this, and how did Brexit also cause these problems in the EU?
This doesn't make all of the Tory/UKIP lies about the benefits of Brexit more truthful, but time shows Remoaner statements about the consequences of Brexit were at least wild exaggerations, if not outright lies themselves.
I would say that Corbyn's 70/30 Remain/Brexit evaluation turned out to be the most realistic assessment, but he was hated and destroyed for it by both the Remoaners and Brexiteers.
Some of the bad stuff predicted for Brexit happened - lower economic growth, businesses exporting to Europe having problems, queues down the M20, extra paperwork, difficulty getting fruit and veg picked for example. On the other hand some didn't like a house price crash (yet).
An odd side effect I didn't expect is that we got a worse class of politicians as the smart honest ones who were prepared to admit it was a mess didn't get in power and instead we got Boris and Liz who were quite prepared to say any old nonsense to get the job.
None of them happened. There weren't rampant food, fuel, and medicine shortages and mass deportations, and Britain didn't become a Mad Max wasteland.
The pound lost a few cents, and then a couple of years later, when everything was dropping against the dollar (because of US interest rate decisions) and all of Europe is having fuel problems for obvious reasons, these things also happened to Britain. What part of not doing Brexit would have prevented this, and how did Brexit also cause these problems in the EU?
This doesn't make all of the Tory/UKIP lies about the benefits of Brexit more truthful, but time shows Remoaner statements about the consequences of Brexit were at least wild exaggerations, if not outright lies themselves.
I would say that Corbyn's 70/30 Remain/Brexit evaluation turned out to be the most realistic assessment, but he was hated and destroyed for it by both the Remoaners and Brexiteers.