On the economic side I’m inclined to agree with you that I don’t think the EU is a miracle growth cure. However, you could argue that Brexit has helped sink all boats (at least a bit). I think it’s easy for people to dismiss the UK’s importance to Europe, but just like the US tariffs I suspect it hurts everybody.
Difficult political situation to navigate. If you refuse to publish statistics then it looks bad and fuels this populism mania around government coverups and “woke agenda” blah blah blah. But also, people use stats in very dishonest ways. A bit of damned if you do and damned if you don’t, but I guess I’d lean towards putting data into the public domain.
My issue is that it’s a heroic assumption that a society where we go and burn down the centres of our democracy is going to be improvement over today. These things don’t happen in a vacuum. I have plenty of things I’d change if I was in charge, but I also look around the world and I think Britain has a lot worth defending.
Bit much mate
I’m wondering what UK based tech companies are critically dependent on American customers? My gut would have said it’s better to accept the reciprocal tariffs.
Unfortunately (in this case), if a party starts to get 30% of the popular vote or somewhere around that, it’s going to start winning seats in FPTP elections.