I was going to ignore this obviously misleading post, but it is now being widely retweeted by the the usual suspects. It is also a super example of #FBPE #Brexit 'confirmation bias'... 🙄 🧵 (1/7) #badbrexittakes #tourism
@julianHjessop @TerraOrBust A question I would love a euroloon to answer is why they didn't give a toss about our manufacturing decline whilst we were EU members, but have been crying rivers of crocodile tears over it since we left the EU. I keep asking, but non ever answer....
@Pricey147 @julianHjessop @TerraOrBust Because now those cheap goods we used to get from the EU are more expensive now we’re out of the single market.
@WaynTrev @julianHjessop @TerraOrBust What have goods sold from within the EU got to do with UK manufacturing output? Manufacturing is "making" things, not "buying" things if that helps?
@Pricey147 @WaynTrev @julianHjessop @TerraOrBust Pan European Supply chains... Factories making stuff need components and raw materials... They have to buy those things... You really don't have the first clue on this stuff...
@nathansldennis @WaynTrev @julianHjessop @TerraOrBust Well other than it being my job since the late 90s. We are discussing why euroloons only started pretending to care about our mfg industry post June 2016. What have EU goods post June 2016 got to do with this, cheap or otherwise? Why not whilst we were EU members as well?
@Pricey147 @nathansldennis @julianHjessop @TerraOrBust FWIW I think we should have cared about our manufacturing sector before 2016. And we should care about it now
@WaynTrev @Pricey147 @julianHjessop @TerraOrBust Had the #Brexit Taliban actually listened to the advocates of Brexit, like the clown economists from the IEA, and Minford, they would know it was about ending the UK as a manufacturing nation...