Brexit: Whoever Could Possibly Have Known?
Whoever could have possibly known?
From The Guardian at https://www.theguardian.com/business...uk-eu-economy:
Brexit is a ‘complete disaster’ and ‘total lies’, says former Tory donor
Private equity veteran Guy Hands says Boris Johnson ‘threw the country and the NHS under the bus’
Julia Kollewe
Tue 31 Jan 2023 10.00 EST
Guy Hands, a leading City figure, has called Brexit a “complete disaster” and a “bunch of total lies” that has harmed large parts of the economy.
Speaking on the third anniversary of the UK’s departure from the EU, Hands, the founder, chair and chief investment officer of the private equity firm Terra Firma, said: “It’s been a complete disaster. The reality is it’s been a lose-lose situation for us and Europe. Europe has lost more [in financial services] but we’ve lost as well. And the reality of Brexit was, it was just was a bunch of complete and total lies.
“The only way that the Brexit put forward by Boris Johnson was going to work was if there was a complete deregulation of the UK and we moved to a sort of Liz Truss utopia of a Singapore state and that was just never going to happen,” Hands, a former donor to the Conservative party, told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.
“The British population was never going to accept a state in which the NHS would be demolished, where free education would be severely limited, where regulation with regard to employment would be thrown apart. It was just complete and total absolute lies.”
He added: “The biggest issue about it, and you can take the Brexit bus as a good example, is the lies that Boris Johnson and the Conservative party told about the NHS. In fact what they did was throw the country and the NHS under the bus.”
According to the polling expert John Curtice, on average polls now suggest that 57% people in the UK would vote to rejoin the EU.
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