Shooting yourself in the foot .

 As we approach the 10th anniversary of the Brexit vote on the 23 June - it’s time to take stock of the national balance sheet. Despite the dire warnings of the Treasury and other economic pundits, we decided to - shoot ourselves in the foot. According to The Guardian today we are seriously worse off as a nation and this is particularly true if you are in a low skilled working class job. The immediate effect was a collective shock psychologically, but now we can see the impact on the economy longer term. The GDP of the national economy is smaller, than it would otherwise have been had we remained in the EU. Moreover inward investment into the country is far less, than it otherwise would have been. Some experts have suggested - that we are roughly between 6 to 8 per cent worse off. So when we complain that there isn’t enough money for the NHS or defence - remember we decided to shoot ourselves in the foot 10 years ago and we are therefore living with the consequences of this disastrous decision. So a collective - mea culpa is necessary. Unfortunately people like Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, Nigel Farage and others - haven’t been held to account for this Brexit nonsense. They of course aren’t worse off.