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> 33 billion pounds is a statistical error. 5.5% > the unknowns of covid and current ukraine situation thrown in... From the article: "The CER modelled the p

> 33 billion pounds is a statistical error. 5.5% > the unknowns of covid and current ukraine situation thrown in... From the article: "The CER modelled the performance of a “doppelganger” UK – if the nation had remained inside the EU – using data from other advanced economies similar to Britain prior to Brexit, including US, Germany, Norway and Australia." Comparing against similar countries is not much affected by situations that affect those other countries.

coldtea 4y ago
>From the article: "The CER modelled the performance of a “doppelganger” UK – if the nation had remained inside the EU – using data from other advanced economies similar to Britain prior to Brexit, including US, Germany, Norway and Australia." Which borders on the comical. The US e.g. being the top dog bossing other countries around to buy their own gas and profiteering from the war, Norway being an energy producer (and the top 3rd largest gas exporter in the world), Australia being a totally unrelated economy in a whole other region with whole other factors, and Germany controlling European policy (with or without the UK in it). The "study" is trully an art of interpreting data to taste!