But.....but..... brexit has not happened yet. Everything is the same until the end of March 2019.
Half of that extra 2% was boosts in movie production that were financed before the Brexit vote.

Of course.

It's like a man who says he will jump off a cliff next March, says he's fine today, and everyone rejoices.

So being in EU is good for business, who would have thought!

That sound great and from what I hear from brexiters, everything else in the UK is great now wages have gone up, the NHS is doing great and they will not need any extra money from the goverment, farmers have never had such a good year, fisherman are saying fishing quoters have gone through the roof, car sales are up and house builders are so busy they will need another 3 million workers and taxes and vat are coming down for everybody, really sounds great shame I have left the UK now, still I expect my UK pension will go up soon

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You didn't get it, did you?

Originally Posted by allaorta
Why would they do that when the economy is about to suffer a Brexit collapse?


Would businesses really bring forward their spending just to save 10% if they thought the economy (and maybe their own companies) would be in trouble in a year or so?
Is it not usually the other way around and they put off spending?
Surely they would not spend money until they were more certain of future events.
Why risk taking on extra costs if (according to the 'Bremoaners') the UK will become an economically isolated almost third world country after we finally leave the sclerotic EU.

Could not an increase in business spending or investment show that companies had more faith and a more optimistic view of the long term future of the UK economy than all the moaning 'Remainers'?

Interestingly the highest cliff on the South Coast is called Golden Cap. What a great place name to jump from, unless of course you land in one of the ledge marshes.

See my post above yours. Seems like us dimbo Brexiters are the only ones who get anything.

I'd say it's more like people insisting that a man will jump off a cliff tomorrow and then, when he doesn't, saying that he's definitely going to jump off the cliff in two years time.

Sorry, are you talking about the doom laden estimates that we kept hearing before the referendum. They've certainly been corrected downwards from the economic armageddon.

The treasury had a best case scenario of a - 0.1 drop in GDP this quarter.

It does show that 17m people voted for Brexit either on the grounds of immigration or to "take back control" from Brussels, seeing as the economy was and is in great shape as part of the EU and the Single Market.

That's like saying Usain Bolt is only fast when he's in the Jamaican relay team.

this guy lives on another planet. As soon as I heard these figures, I thought about Aurichie and Ireland2day and how these figures would ruin their doom laden day.

Well, people surely can't have voted for Brexit for economic reasons. The economy was in great shape before the referendum and unemployment was at an eleven year low. I think there was an opinion poll a few weeks before the referendum where people said they were prepared to take a financial hit in order to get out of the EU, so the vote clearly nothing to do economics or the amount of money people had in their pockets.

We're taking an economic hit being in the EU.

Interesting that you think that services, which makes up 75% of the economy, is not a sector of any worth.

That was certainly the claim by Boris Johnson and one or two others, yes, that not only would things remain the same after Brexit but that the UK would be even better off and more prosperous once it was out of the EU.

Benefit of still being in the EU. Brexit hasn't happened yet. It's not rocket science.

its not of any real worth .. value and money is created via the industrial sectors.

and what is the industrial sector going to make if no one designs it for them?

Airports are service sector industries. Are you saying Heathrow, Gatwick etc create no real value to the economy?

its still hovering under the $1.22

Entirely failed to understand the point I was making. Services is the bread and butter of the UK. Services is what will be impacted the most by leaving single market as no FTA includes services, and in particular financial and insurance services.

The media industry will also be particularly hard hit.