Exclusive: Nigel Farage is a ‘spectre’ impeding the UK’s recovery from Brexit, which has cost the UK £3,000 per person every year, Professor Nick Bloom says
Using a synthetic control approach, the researchers compare each UK area’s actual economic path with a data-driven counterfactual: how that area might have evolved had Brexit not happened.
Synthetic counter factuals. Bullshit
Comparing growth rates and showing UK fell behind is perfectly valid and you’re still ignoring the imposed costs and proof of harmed industries
It would be perfectly valid if they used the actual data and not synthetic counter factuals.
And it’s the net that matters, dirty goods trade has been replaced with clean services.
Ah yes loss of dirty music tours, etc
That’s a service export. And the EU offered to include it in the deal but the Tories said no.