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"we'd be wealthier if we'd remained" Briton would be even wealthier still if they had never joined the EU in the first place. https://commonslibrary.parliamen

• tim333 4mo ago
  Debatable. Britain used to be a bit of a mess around joining in 1973. Check out British disease https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_British_disease https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_British_disease Sick man of Europe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sick_man_of_Europe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sick_man_of_Europe Things then picked up, especially in finance when in 2014: London overtakes New York to be named world's finance capital https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/london-overtakes-new-york-to-be-named-worlds-finance-capital-9394994.html https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/london-overtakes-new-... then Brexit screwed that up. The charges in your link are nothing compared to that lot really. Headline today: Britain’s debt rising at fastest rate in the world – bar Botswana I mean you can't really say how it would have gone but tearing up the trade deals with your main trading partners is seldom great for business.