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by anonymousiam 3 days ago
"we'd be wealthier if we'd remained"

Briton would be even wealthier still if they had never joined the EU in the first place.

https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-...

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Debatable. Britain used to be a bit of a mess around joining in 1973. Check out

British disease https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_British_disease

Sick man of Europe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sick_man_of_Europe

Things then picked up, especially in finance when in 2014: London overtakes New York to be named world's finance capital https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/london-overtakes-new-...

then Brexit screwed that up. The charges in your link are nothing compared to that lot really.

Headline today: Britain’s debt rising at fastest rate in the world – bar Botswana

I mean you can't really say how it would have gone but tearing up the trade deals with your main trading partners is seldom great for business.