Oliver Howley

2016: Nigel Farage, "The worst case scenario economically, is better. than where we are today" 2020: Boris Johnson, "Prosper nightly remains an extremely good description of life after January 1st" 2025: Bloomberg, "Brexit Hit to UK Economy Double Official estimate" National Bureau of Economic Research Study: ⬇️ GDP down 8% ⬇️ Investment down 18% ⬇️ Employment down 4% ⬇️ Productivity down 4% 🔻£35 billion lost in Income tax & NI 🔻£25 billion lost in VAT 🔻£15 billion lost in Corporation tax 🆘 Estimated loss in tax revenue is £75 billion per year What have we got after Brexit? £4.8  billion for 🇮🇳 Indian-UK £2.3  billion for 🇦🇺 Australia-UK £0.8 billion for 🇳🇿 New Zealand-UK £9.0 billion for 🇪🇺 EU reset with UK 🆘 £16.9 billion - Current best case scenario by 2040 The reason taxes will go up, and spending will be cut, again, is because Brexit is making us poorer Today, former UKIP, former Reform UK, Nathan Gill, who admitted taking bribes to do what Farage and Johnson did for free: talk down the EU, will be sentenced ➡️The UK has always been a sovereign nation; just as every EU nation is a sovereign nation, they just chose to work together for the greater good ➡️The UK has always had control of our borders. Even within the EU the UK could remove any EU citizen e.g. if they were a danger, or didn't contribute ➡️ Poverty an austerity were not caused by the EU, they were caused by the Conservative party underfunding public services ➡️ And when the UK left the EU, to make up for the freedom of people that provided temporary workers to the UK, Boris Johnson's point based system approved visas for 3.5 million legal migrants, he did that without investing in public services. Not the fault of immigrants but of the UK government exercising their Brexit freedoms So the UK can carry on believing populists that will say whatever angers swathes of the population to get power and influence, like Farage or Johnson Or the UK can acknowledge that Farage's and Johnson's Brexit ideology has not only been a disaster, but it has been the opposite of what both of them promised If we want the economy to grow faster, if we want to cut taxes, and increase spending, the sooner we boost our economic growth by rejoining the European Union, the better