Johnson’s Brexit would leave us worse-off than May’s – but that’s ignoring the main point
Brexiteer: Boris Johnson. Behind him is Jo Swinson, leader of the Liberal Democrats, who seems determined to help him achieve Brexit, by refusing to support a Jeremy Corbyn-led interim government.
Research by academic think tank The UK in a Changing Europe shows that Boris Johnson’s current model of Brexit will leave us worse-off than Theresa May’s.
National income would drop by the equivalent of £2,000 per person – 6.4 per cent less than if we stayed in the EU – under Mr Johnson’s offer, the think tank has claimed.
This is a worse outcome than Theresa May’s proposals (remember them?) – that would leave us all only £1,500 worse-off.
A “no deal” Brexit would be worse than both – taking £2,500 from all our incomes.
Am I the only person in the UK who can see the connection between all three proposals – that they all leave us worse-off than staying in the EU?
Why the blazes are we going ahead with this farce?
It is clearly acknowledged that leaving the European Union will damage all of us financially.
(Sure, there are plenty of people who claim this is nonsense but their evidenceless comments lack one important element: authority.)
Boris Johnson is enormously rich, so he can easily bear a loss of £2,500, I’m sure. Some of us are not in such a privileged position.
In fact, most of us would be defined as “impecunious” – having little or no money – by the likes of BoJob.
We can’t endure such a loss to our household finances; not on top of the cuts to wage and/or benefits that have already been inflicted on us by the Conservatives.
One can understand why Tories like Boris Johnson, Jacob Rees-Mogg and Nigel Farage want to take that money away from us. They need to rob us of any financial independence so we’ll accept whatever servitude they push onto us.
Why do ordinary people want to be worse-off. Do they have some kind of death wish?
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