The anti-Brexit mob won’t stop their moaning and most of it is cobblers as we all know economic forecasts are a mug’s game
They bang on about Britain’s gravest crisis since the war, about a Government in chaos with no plan or anyone to form one
THE better the economic news, the louder the caterwauling from the anti-Brexit mob.
Round the clock they bang on — about Britain’s gravest crisis since the war, about a Government in chaos, with no plan nor anyone capable of forming one.
Most of it is cobblers. The rest just uninformed guesswork as hopelessly wide of the mark as Project Fear’s warnings of an immediate economic shock after a Leave vote on June 23.
The reality since then has been almost unwaveringly positive. Were jobs lost? No, unemployment has fallen to its lowest in 11 years. The percentage in work is the highest since records began in 1971.
Is inflation soaring? No. When it ticked up to one per cent in September, gleeful Remainers said that was just the beginning. Then — oops — it fell back to 0.9 per cent in October. Average wages are growing almost three times as fast.
Undeterred by the Remainers’ gloom, tech firms are creating thousands of jobs in Britain. So much for them deserting the sinking ship.
Donald Trump looks open to a speedy trade deal. Yesterday Canada was champing at the bit to do the same, regardless of the final Brexit outcome.
Even Angela Merkel is softening her entrenched views on free movement.
Only a fool would predict Brexit will be plain sailing. Inflation may rise sharply. It may not. No one knows.
Leavers and Remainers can surely agree on this: economic forecasts are a mug’s game.
Homes crusade
FEW things make a Briton on average wages feel “left behind” more than the inability to buy a home.
It is a scandal so many are priced out of the market, forced into rentals or relying on their parents’ generosity.
The dire property shortage is a major factor. Our absurdly restrictive, out-of-date planning laws must be redrawn.
So we welcome that Local Government Secretary Sajid Javid is offering radical solutions.
Not all will find favour. But Theresa May should consider them, and the Chancellor should announce fresh ideas in his Autumn Statement too.
The Government needs a crusade — to revive Maggie Thatcher’s dream of home ownership for a new generation that has lost hope over it.
Heat on Big Six
OUR patience with the energy giants ran out long ago. The Government’s has too.
Yesterday at the Commons the Big Six’s representative fudged the vastness of their profits, revealed by The Sun.
No wonder Energy Secretary Greg Clark was exasperated. They are making fortunes while some families shiver in homes they cannot afford to heat.
How much longer can these companies resist lowering ALL tariffs before the Government steps in?