27-11-2016 08:00 via theguardian.com

Of course the forecasts are bad: no one has a plan for Brexit

The Leavers somehow managed to deflect the blame for austerity on to ‘Europe’. But they are far less convincing about our economic future nowThe European Union did not cause the 2007-08 financial crisis. The European Union did not instruct George Osborne to introduce an austerity policy which magnified the deleterious effects of that crisis. The European Union did not impose neoliberal and excessively deregulatory policies which contributed to a situation where the “fruits of g
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