> The idea of actually stimulating wealth creation, and then taxing it The problem is, the UK has not actually been responsible for a lot of the minutia of run

> The idea of actually stimulating wealth creation, and then taxing it The problem is, the UK has not actually been responsible for a lot of the minutia of running it's self, as it imported a bunch of regulation from the EU, which touched everything. Now, whilst we were in the single market, that worked reasonably well for us. Cheap skilled labour to plug our massive skills gap, lots of low tarrif countries to export to (although a lot of our exports are/were services which had higher barriers.) Now, 2007 came and that gave everyone an austerity fetish. The problem is that all of that reform and infrastructure that requires maintenance is now reaching end of life, but as its not been carried out for >10 years its all breaking at once. > What could we do to stimulate the economy? negotiate a real trade deal with the EU, our closest and biggest partner. However that means admitting that the _way_ brexit was handled was wrong, buy all sides. The remainers were against _any_ change, which meant that the first deal was voted down, causing us to leave the customs union and sort of single market. the brexiters couldn't handle any kind of compromise on "hard" brexit, and the backstop was the antichrist, because sovereignty, teaming up with the hardcore remainers to block the aforementioned deal (all be it for very different reasons) Thus we were left with the shit that johnson cooked up in the brief moments between naps, fucking his mistress, and selling access/assets/secrets to renovate his apartment (amongst other things) So we are now left with the odd situation where everyone knows, and largely agrees that brexit has fucked the UK. However we _cannot_ admit that, because that means we were wrong, and therefore like vegetables to a three year old, we must blend, disguise and generally hide any kind of closer cooperation with the EU lest the press, gammons/FBPE(pro/anti brexit nutters on twitter) realise whats going on.