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The Extraordinary Delusion and Madness of Brexiteers
And their stranglehold on the British people.
Our economy has tanked.
Our waters are sewage-filled and our collective wealth has shrunk immeasurably.
And speaking of our ever shrinking wealth, the new point of comparison among the chattering classes is how poor we have become.
The chief architect of Brexit —Daniel Hannan — wrote an article detailing our new reality, last week:
The average American is 39 per cent wealthier and 38 per cent more productive than the average Brit. Housing is also much cheaper in the US, as was energy even before the Ukraine war.
If Britain were a US state, it would languish at the bottom of the league. When my friend Douglas Carswell, the former Conservative and Ukip MP, emigrated in despair at our lockdown, he chose Mississippi, where he now runs a think tank. He picked that state because it ranked 50th out of 50, and he believed that, if school choice and tax cuts could be made to work in Mississippi, they would work anywhere. What he found, to his surprise, was a higher standard of living than he had left behind.
A teacher or a registered nurse here starts on maybe £41,000”, he tells me. In Britain, outside London, a teacher gets around £30,000, a nurse £25,000.