Good evening, was it, Stuart? What you write is usually pretty coherent, so I'm imagining a fair few empties on the table before you wrote that lot.
Deluded? Preconceived ideas? We warned, yes, and now it's happening. What's the delusion?
Today's pensions, as I'm sure you know, are paid out of today's taxes, and are a heavier burden than they've ever been before. (Even the mythical £350m a week is trivial by comparison.) If taking in workers from other countries isn't going to be allowed - as you Leavers convinced people to vote for, whether or not you will actually deliver it - and we're not producing enough indigenous workers, then it can only mean those of us paying tax today will have to work longer and pay more. Looks like another example of your generation taking the benefit and leaving mine, and those younger than me, with the bill.
As for your dismissal of the economic indicators, the fall of the pound against the dollar is a pretty clear indication of the world's view of the strength and value of the UK economy. It offers some fortuitous help to UK exporters who don't also have to import materials, but it's generally a sign of weakness. The world still thinks we've made a bad decision.
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