38yearsofpain
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So you have to wait a year before you can comment not 22 days. Even you realise industry waits and sees the impact before making decisions. Many of the UK large employers are worldwide businesses and they move sites to the lowest cost base.That might be your opinion but it wasn't the Government or the Remain campaign's official projection. The nightmarish effects I described were to be "immediate" effects of a leave vote.
Here's the link:
Britain to enter recession with 500,000 UK jobs lost if it left EU, new Treasury analysis shows (Archived)
New Treasury analysis shows a vote to leave the EU would tip Britain’s economy into a year-long recession.www.gov.uk
So although your opinion is perfectly valid, I would respectfully suggest that if the Government and the Treasury can be so wrong about this, I'm sure you're much more likely to be wrong and with the added downside of not having even nearly as much knowledge, resource or evidence to support your doom-mongering.
I'd add that predictions of an eventual return to the EU are also based on the shaky presumption that the EU will even exist in the next 20-50 years.
Re the EU, I think political union has always been the key issue and I wouldn't disagree it is shaky. It will be interesting to see what happens in Italy. I still think for Europe to remain competitive with the rest of the world it has to be a free trade area. For the UK to remain competitive it will need to be part of that arrangement.
Personally we have sacrificed economic advantage for soverignty. Whoever runs the country be it nationally the EU, or Westminster they will shaft you.