2020: Boris Johnson, "We will prosper mightily after Brexit" 2024: Fareed Zakaria, "If Britain was to join the US as the 51st state, it would be the poorest state in the union"
From the FT in 2023, detail in article ft.com/content/e5c741…
@implausibleblog But you imported a lot of doctors and engineers
@implausibleblog I'm not sure about that, plus we're above the US average when looking at GDP per capita, education & life expectancy. UN Human Development Index 0.95 Massachusetts - highest state 0.94 United Kingdom 0.92 US Average 0.87 Mississippi - lowest state
@implausibleblog This is what George Bernard Shaw wrote about in ''The Applecart''( 120 years ago) - but it was not for Economic Necessity or to help Yanks & the Banks. How perceptive some Irish Folk ! BJ the clown continues in costume!
@implausibleblog The trajectory that has seen the US outperform the UK economically had been in place since the financial crisis in 08. It's not Brexit. It's Britain.
@implausibleblog Leaving the EU was the right call, I didn’t realize that joining the US was an option!
@implausibleblog @MrBlanding Er..not sure about that