MrMickS
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Yes, Geoff, the same solution, Qe or money printing apparantly works for the Eu and the rest of the world so we will print £ to get us thru Brexit.
No?
QE is not without cost. Its an inflationary pressure and has an impact on exchange rates, currency confidence, etc. I've no doubt that QE will be used by the BoE post Brexit as one of the ways to keep the economy moving. However if you want to look at what happens if you try to just print your way out of debt look at the issues it caused in Germany between the wars. Its a tool, it has limited use, and needs to be done cautiously as you don't want people to think that you are just going to print money willy-nilly.
So can it be used to fix all post Brexit issues? No.
Will it be used to help ease them? Yes.
Here's the issue with debating people for whom Brexit has adopted a near religious status though, reason goes out of the window. I'm sick and tired of being told that we just need to believe in it and it'll be ok. The world doesn't work like that.
Unfortunately the only alternative to being right royally done over by the US for a start, and everyone else afterwards, is to go with the deal negotiated with the EU. Its not perfect, but it is only a stepping stone, and would give us the ability to negotiate from a position of relative stability.
A no-deal will be messy. All talk of WTO, and other schemes, are complete an utter nonsense once you actually look into the detail. Neither Johnson, or Farage as you appear to think he's something other than a paid for charlatan looking after his own interests, provide any detail on post Brexit deals. Its just waffle and doesn't sit with the facts. Still, I guess I'll be told that "I should believe", or "it won't be as bad as the war", or "we did ok before the EU".
In the same way they confuse Patriotism with racism?
Patriotism is an outdated concept and should be consigned to the dustbin of history along with organised religion. Giving loyalty to something because of an accident of birth is a nonsense in the 21st century. It's a tool used by the elite to manipulate.