I agree that the UK has had a paper economy for a long time now, but to a lesser extent, so do other EU countries. Not that I don't think this is a mistake, onl

I agree that the UK has had a paper economy for a long time now, but to a lesser extent, so do other EU countries. Not that I don't think this is a mistake, only that it should show that this is not the issue. The issue is pessimism, something the British excel at. Economic investment and stock markets obviously don't do well with that. Unpopular opinion, but Brexit didn't _need_ to be a disaster. It was made so by the negativity surrounding it. A large part of the shit-show was investors getting spooked and moving abroad, because of all the doom-and-gloom it became a self fulfilling prophecy.