The British economy has exposed how terrible the pro-EU side’s Project Fear really was – Telegraph.co.uk

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In the run-up to the referendum on European Union membership the three-million-jobs-at-risk claim that was central to the economic case for staying in. Nick Cleggs formula in a Daily Telegraph story of 11 January 2013 was typical and almost apocalyptic in tone. In his words, three million jobs were dependent on our position as a leading member of the worlds biggest borderless single market, you play with that status at your peril; there are jobs at stake, livelihoods. He warned that leaving the EU meant isolation, and that isolation costs jobs, costs growth, costs peoples livelihoods.

Forecasts of an early recession and heavy job losses were certainly part of Project Fear, both ahead of and in the immediate aftermath of the EU referendum on 23 June 2016. The doom-mongering was as much about what would happen just after a majority vote to leave as it was about the sequel to Brexit proper....

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