Emmanuel Igwe has an interesting Critic piece on the gap between the Starmer/Blob narrative on UK-EU trade and ONS data.
Brexit was not an act of economic self-harm
Whatever you have heard, UK-EU trade is doing just fine
Some circles of the British commentariat have perfected a peculiar ritual: that of prodding through good economic news, only to declare such news as bad. A major target for such investigation is Britain’s post-Brexit data. The latest data released by the Office for National Statistics quietly refutes the established narrative that “Brexit did deep damage to our economy”, as our Prime Minister said on 1st April. I promise you, it was not an April Fool’s joke.
When measured in real terms, after Brexit total exports rose by more than 23 percent, from £735 billion in 2015 to £905 billion in 2025. Meanwhile, the fact that Britain’s trade has grown faster than GDP in the same period is an even sharper rebuttal of assertion by erstwhile Remainers that Brexit was an act of economic self-harm. These numbers are empirically robust, unarguable, and yet noticeably avoided in mainstream political discourse.
The whole piece is well worth reading as yet another indicator that Starmer/Bob has yet to get over their hatred of Brexit and those who voted for it.
Despite the growing prevalence of non-EU trade for Britain, our current Labour government continues to insist on the importance of “dynamic alignment” with various EU standards and regimes — that is, mirroring EU regulations onto British statute books whenever the EU changes them. Under dynamic alignment, Britain’s regulatory scope would be defined in offices it cannot enter and decided by parliamentarians not elected by the British people.
5 comments:
Of all the ways that you can split people into two there is one that uses politics and the economy.
One group believes that the economy should follow political decision making, and the other group believes that political decision making should follow the economy.
From which it follows that one group values closer integration with the EU as a means of increasing economic direction through political decisions. The other group wishes to distance our economy from other people's political decisions - since 'the economy' is no simple single entity that anyone can reliably predict.
From what I read not even the elected representatives of the EU citizens have any influence on what the EU Commission does.
The reverse is true. The unelected EU Commission tries to influence who the EU citizens are allowed to elect. And how much money to throw around the world and what cheap fuel to reject. And who is not allowed to say hurty things. The
No wonder Surkier is envious.
DJ - yes that's a sound way of looking at it. There is a mix of course, but there seems to be a drift towards politically directed economics making the balance difficult. Especially so in prosperous times when too many people don't take the trouble to work out where the prosperity came from.
Doonhamer - yes it's a power play by bureaucrats without enough restraints apart from embarrassing failure. Often not even then. Starmer is one of them.
I was not so much voting for Brexit as for the dissolution of that socialist toad the EU. From day one of my blogging life.
James - dissolution needs to happen before it's too late, but it isn't easy to tell when that may be. About now would be my guess.
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