It's brilliant in Brexit Britain and Project Fear's lies are being exposed...
DANIEL HANNAN Tory MEP on why it’s brilliant in Brexit Britain and how ‘Project Fear’s’ lies were exposed
Despite everything we’ve been hearing about failing economies, it will be Britain nudging in front of Germany and well ahead of France and Italy
BY DANIEL HANNAN, CONSERVATIVE MEP FOR SOUTH EAST ENGLAND
22nd September 2016
The Sun
GUESS which of the world’s major economies will grow fastest this year.
Japan? America? Nope.
Despite everything we’ve been hearing on TV, it will be Britain, nudging in front of Germany and well ahead of France and Italy.
Celebration… the lies of ‘Project Fear’ have been exposed for happy post-Brexit vote Brits
How can that be?
Weren’t we told that voting to leave the EU would crash the economy?
Didn’t George Osborne assure us that house prices would tumble by 18 per cent? Didn’t Mark Carney, the Governor of the Bank of England, warn about “a technical recession” this year?
They’re not alone in having got it wrong.
The fact that Britain will outgrow the other big economies comes from an economic think-tank, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development (OECD), a partly EU-funded international body.
Wrong… Mark Carney, the Governor of the Bank of England, warned about ‘a technical recession’
Before the referendum, the OECD tried to claim that a Leave vote would cause “global turmoil”.
Now, like so many Europhile institutions, it is eating its words.
Indeed, words are being gobbled and guzzled everywhere.
Merrill Lynch, Barclays, Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, JP Morgan — all have uprated their growth forecasts since the referendum.
Today, exactly three months on from the vote, it is clear that Remain’s Project Fear merchants were talking hogwash.
So, more seriously, were the Treasury, the Bank of England and many Europhile financial institutions.
“Ah, but we haven’t actually left yet,” say Remainers.
Sorry, guys, but that wasn’t what you said at the time.
Wrong… we were told France would expel our immigration officers from Calais – now it says they can stay
During the campaign, you told us that the possibility of Brexit was causing a downturn.
Now Brexit is certain, but the only downturn we see is in parts of the eurozone.
Just after the vote, the Office for National Statistics was forecasting that unemployment would rise by 9,500 in July. Instead it fell by 8,600.
The only people who will lose their jobs from Brexit are Eurocrats like me.
Though, given their record, one or two analysts should be sacked, too.
A poll of City economists in July found 71 per cent predicting a recession this year.
Now, almost no one expects that to happen.
Have Remainers owned up to their mistake?
Have they said, “OK, we got this wrong”? No.
The same people who in June were saying “Brexit has trashed our economy” are now, without a blush, saying: “Brexit hasn’t happened yet.”
When it does happen, they’ll say: “Just wait for the effects to sink in.”
And, if they wait long enough, they’ll eventually get the recession they want, because economies naturally rise and fall.
And then they’ll say: “You see? We told you so!”
Sorry, guys, but it won’t wash.
The only thing you got right was that the Pound would fall — and, frankly, not before time, since the euro crisis was giving us too high an exchange rate.
Every other prediction you made was bunkum.
You told us there would be emergency tax rises.
Now the talk is of tax cuts.
You said France would expel our immigration officers from Calais.
Now France says they can stay.
Germany’s finance minister warned us that “out means out” and that we’d be treated like a non-European country.
Now he says George Osborne asked him to use those words and speaks warmly of a special relationship with Britain.
You brought Barack Obama over to tell us we’d be at the back of the queue for a trade deal.
Now it’s clear that a UK-US deal will happen long before an EU-US one, and 26 countries from Australia to Uruguay are lining up to sign agreements with us.
You told us Brexit would cost each of us £4,300 a year — a figure no one any longer defends.
You told us our Stock Exchange would collapse.
British stocks are the best-performing in Europe.
Wrong… Barack Obama was brought over to tell us we’d be at the back of the queue for a trade deal – now it’s clear that a UK-US deal will happen long before an EU-US one
You told us no one would invest here.
Since the vote, we have seen massive investments by, among others, the pharma giants AstraZeneca and GSK, both of whom had warned against Brexit.
The American megabank Wells Fargo has just spent £300million on its new European HQ — in London.
Tata Steel, which had announced that it was pulling out of South Wales, is now reconsidering.
More start-ups have been launched since the vote than before it, retail sales are rising and manufacturing output is up.
Yet Remoaners cling to their grievances.
On Wednesday night, the economics editor of the Financial Times, which has been especially mopey since the vote, said that good news “is, paradoxically, bad news” because it will make us more arrogant, less prepared to think we depend on Europe, blah blah.
For heaven’s sake, you gloomsters, pull yourselves together.
It’s fair enough that you got it wrong — we all get things wrong.
It’s fair enough that you tried to justify yourselves for a while — we all sometimes do that, too.
But actively hoping for Britain to fail so that you can say “I told you so”?
That must feel pretty miserable inside.
It certainly looks miserable from the outside.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/18353...tain-and-how-project-fears-lies-were-exposed/
DANIEL HANNAN Tory MEP on why it’s brilliant in Brexit Britain and how ‘Project Fear’s’ lies were exposed
Despite everything we’ve been hearing about failing economies, it will be Britain nudging in front of Germany and well ahead of France and Italy
BY DANIEL HANNAN, CONSERVATIVE MEP FOR SOUTH EAST ENGLAND
22nd September 2016
The Sun
GUESS which of the world’s major economies will grow fastest this year.
Japan? America? Nope.
Despite everything we’ve been hearing on TV, it will be Britain, nudging in front of Germany and well ahead of France and Italy.
Celebration… the lies of ‘Project Fear’ have been exposed for happy post-Brexit vote Brits
How can that be?
Weren’t we told that voting to leave the EU would crash the economy?
Didn’t George Osborne assure us that house prices would tumble by 18 per cent? Didn’t Mark Carney, the Governor of the Bank of England, warn about “a technical recession” this year?
They’re not alone in having got it wrong.
The fact that Britain will outgrow the other big economies comes from an economic think-tank, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development (OECD), a partly EU-funded international body.
Wrong… Mark Carney, the Governor of the Bank of England, warned about ‘a technical recession’
Before the referendum, the OECD tried to claim that a Leave vote would cause “global turmoil”.
Now, like so many Europhile institutions, it is eating its words.
Indeed, words are being gobbled and guzzled everywhere.
Merrill Lynch, Barclays, Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, JP Morgan — all have uprated their growth forecasts since the referendum.
Today, exactly three months on from the vote, it is clear that Remain’s Project Fear merchants were talking hogwash.
So, more seriously, were the Treasury, the Bank of England and many Europhile financial institutions.
“Ah, but we haven’t actually left yet,” say Remainers.
Sorry, guys, but that wasn’t what you said at the time.
Wrong… we were told France would expel our immigration officers from Calais – now it says they can stay
During the campaign, you told us that the possibility of Brexit was causing a downturn.
Now Brexit is certain, but the only downturn we see is in parts of the eurozone.
Just after the vote, the Office for National Statistics was forecasting that unemployment would rise by 9,500 in July. Instead it fell by 8,600.
The only people who will lose their jobs from Brexit are Eurocrats like me.
Though, given their record, one or two analysts should be sacked, too.
A poll of City economists in July found 71 per cent predicting a recession this year.
Now, almost no one expects that to happen.
Have Remainers owned up to their mistake?
Have they said, “OK, we got this wrong”? No.
The same people who in June were saying “Brexit has trashed our economy” are now, without a blush, saying: “Brexit hasn’t happened yet.”
When it does happen, they’ll say: “Just wait for the effects to sink in.”
And, if they wait long enough, they’ll eventually get the recession they want, because economies naturally rise and fall.
And then they’ll say: “You see? We told you so!”
Sorry, guys, but it won’t wash.
The only thing you got right was that the Pound would fall — and, frankly, not before time, since the euro crisis was giving us too high an exchange rate.
Every other prediction you made was bunkum.
You told us there would be emergency tax rises.
Now the talk is of tax cuts.
You said France would expel our immigration officers from Calais.
Now France says they can stay.
Germany’s finance minister warned us that “out means out” and that we’d be treated like a non-European country.
Now he says George Osborne asked him to use those words and speaks warmly of a special relationship with Britain.
You brought Barack Obama over to tell us we’d be at the back of the queue for a trade deal.
Now it’s clear that a UK-US deal will happen long before an EU-US one, and 26 countries from Australia to Uruguay are lining up to sign agreements with us.
You told us Brexit would cost each of us £4,300 a year — a figure no one any longer defends.
You told us our Stock Exchange would collapse.
British stocks are the best-performing in Europe.
Wrong… Barack Obama was brought over to tell us we’d be at the back of the queue for a trade deal – now it’s clear that a UK-US deal will happen long before an EU-US one
You told us no one would invest here.
Since the vote, we have seen massive investments by, among others, the pharma giants AstraZeneca and GSK, both of whom had warned against Brexit.
The American megabank Wells Fargo has just spent £300million on its new European HQ — in London.
Tata Steel, which had announced that it was pulling out of South Wales, is now reconsidering.
More start-ups have been launched since the vote than before it, retail sales are rising and manufacturing output is up.
Yet Remoaners cling to their grievances.
On Wednesday night, the economics editor of the Financial Times, which has been especially mopey since the vote, said that good news “is, paradoxically, bad news” because it will make us more arrogant, less prepared to think we depend on Europe, blah blah.
For heaven’s sake, you gloomsters, pull yourselves together.
It’s fair enough that you got it wrong — we all get things wrong.
It’s fair enough that you tried to justify yourselves for a while — we all sometimes do that, too.
But actively hoping for Britain to fail so that you can say “I told you so”?
That must feel pretty miserable inside.
It certainly looks miserable from the outside.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/18353...tain-and-how-project-fears-lies-were-exposed/
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