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    Starmer says Brexit has ‘significantly hurt’ UK economy, calls for closer EU ties


    Starmer says Brexit has ‘significantly hurt’ UK economy, calls for closer EU ties

    https://www.firstpost.com/world/starmer-says-brexit-has-significantly-hurt-uk-economy-calls-for-closer-eu-ties-13955686.html

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    1. WeRegretToInform on

      2016-2020: If you mention negatives of brexit you’re a doom and gloomer. Remoaner.

      2020-2024: Don’t mention the ‘B word’.

      2025: Okay yes, Brexit did damage.

      Slowly, slowly the window of acceptable discourse in government is shifting.

    2. Agreeable_Falcon1044 on

      If only this starmer chap was in a position where he could make some changes to reverse the damage?

      We have spent two weeks and counting arguing over chicken feed small amounts in a budget…whilst ignoring the infinity bigger “black hole” caused by brexit.

    3. steepleton on

      He won’t like how the EU points out his authoritarianism is incompatible with their utopian ideals.

      Let Scotland get it’s independence, rejoin the EU, and let migration decide who the folk prefer.

      Personally, I’ll be breaking out the andy stewart vinyl

    5. Impressive-Bird-6085 on

      This is welcome news.

      However, I will say, the fact excruciatingly painful glacial acceptance of the damage Brexit is doing to the U.K., the need for closer commercial ties with the EU and the necessary shift in policy and discourse by Starmer and the Labour government is extremely embarrassing to witness. I don’t think it’s doing them many favours either…..

    6. B0797S458W on

      I’ll bet that by the next election Starmer and Reeves will have done more economic damage than Brexit.

    7. Banana-train2131 on

      If we can move past talking about Brexit benefits – there aren’t any – and towards reversing at least some of our national self harm, then that is positive.

      Maybe Starmer is not a lost cause after all.

    8. Mobile_Falcon8639 on

      That’s good very good if the Prime Minister and the government are finally admitting that Brexit was a disaster.

    9. Sindy51 on

      The Brexit denial is finally dwindling. The next election will be all about Farage versus returning to the single market and the EU customs union.

      Even if Farage wins, he’ll likely tank the economy further simply because of who he is and the ideology he represents. Nobody will want to do business with him or take him seriously. It would be similar to the end of Boris’s tenure, when every time he opened his mouth it had a negative effect on the markets.

      So either way, the UK will end up learning the hard way (again), or it will finally hold its hand up and admit the Brexit was most historic political error made in peacetime by any modern nation.and it needs fixed for the sake of prosperity.

    11. raquetracket on

      Scrapping the £ isn’t going to happen full stop, that’s just a convenient red herring.
      Poland joined the EU 21 years ago and they still use the Zloty. They won’t be giving it up anytime soon either.