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Points: - "unrestricted free trade will be awesome" - peace is not at stake, au contraire - decentralization is awesome. And small is beautiful! - it doesn'
by pi-err 10y ago
Points:
- "unrestricted free trade will be awesome"
- peace is not at stake, au contraire
- decentralization is awesome. And small is beautiful!
- it doesn't matter that it's a little about xenophobia
It sounds more like a prayer to Ricardo and the Seven because there really are no arguments given. "Let's try this awesome experiment because we're awesome!"
We'll hear this a lot - especially from the Boris Johnson side of the equation.
And the UK may well get the best out of this. It could become the mythical european Dubai, half fiscal paradise and half tech/creative/trade hub. This would also mean that the biggest losers would be the exact same people would voted for Brexit: white, older, English middle class. Politically, this will be interesting.
- gonvaled 10y ago> This would also mean that the biggest losers would be the exact same people would voted for Brexit: white, older, English middle class. You will always have trickle down economics to make the middle class much richer. Oh, wait, this does not seem be to be working as expected [1] [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_are_the_99%25 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_are_the_99%25