Observations

Polls are only polls, but...

Polls are only polls. No-one knows this better than Leave voters after the polling ahead of the 2016 Referendum, when every poll bar one was proved wrong.

That said, the UK has now experienced more than five years of vindictive and aggressive behaviour by the EU towards the UK. It has seen the UK lead the world in vaccines, whereas it is claimed that many thousands died in the EU as a result of its vaccination programme being handled by the EU Commission in typically slow and incompetent fashion for months.

‘Project Farce’

The UK has also seen almost every prediction in the Project Fear arsenal being proved not only wrong, but wrong in entirely the opposite direction. Project Fear was rapidly proven to be ‘Project Farce’.

For example, job numbers actually increased by 679,000 in the two years after we voted to leave, rather than plummeting by 500,000-820,000 as George Osborne and HM Treasury predicted. Contrary to the subsequent ‘clutching at straws’ by Remainers, 96.4% of these were extra full-time, permanent jobs.

Five years on, the cities of Paris and Frankfurt are still waiting in vain for the mass influx of City staff following the supposed immediate implosion of the UK’s important financial sector. And last week the EU Commission was forced to announce that it is extending the City of London’s vital role in euro clearing indefinitely.

Sometimes it's good to look back, but maybe not for Re-Joiners

Here's a blast from the past. On Christmas Eve, 24 Dec 2018 - fully two-and-a-half years after the British electorate voted to leave the EU - Facts4EU.Org published a Christmas message of good cheer involving jobs, wages and the economy. We had analysed the latest data released by the Office for National Statistics and reported as follows.

Then why, oh why, oh why?

So the majority of Brexit news has been good, why haven’t voters cottoned on? Or if they are aware, why have only 11% of Remain voters changed their minds, offset by 10% of Leave voters who would now apparently vote to re-join the EU?

The Facts4EU.Org team has its own theories, but we are interested in what readers think. Please let us know in the Comments section below, or email us here. We will then publish the best of these in a further article, together with our own analysis.

A sobering thought

We will leave readers with a sobering thought. If ever there were another Referendum, and if this time the Re-join camp were able to persuade its younger supporters actually to go out and vote, Re-join would win hands down.

Yes, polls are polls, but we suggest that this is a problem which needs to be addressed. It entirely vindicates our decision to carry on working seven days a week from 24 June 2016 onwards and also vindicates the decision of many readers to continue supporting our work with donations. And on that subject please read what follows. Thank you.

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