This showed up in my feed today.
From a report published a the start of the year:
The UK has 1.8m fewer jobs now that it would have been had Brexit not happened – a drop of 4.8 per cent. The average Briton is nearly £2,000 worse off as a result of Brexit. The UK real Gross Value Added (GVA) – a measure of the size of the economy – is approximately £140bn less in 2023 than it would have been had the UK opted to remain in the Customs Union and Single Market – a drop of six per cent. Brexit has also made the cost-of-living crisis more severe in the UK. Analysis shows that 30% of the increase in food prices between December 2019 and March 2023 could be attributed to the effects of Brexit.
It made me think of all that happened in 8 years. Cameron, May, Boris, Lettucehead (Truss), and Rish!. The Duke and the Queen died. Covid. Trump. Ukraine. Gaza. It’s been a rough decade.