There are nearly 1m more people employed in the UK than before the Referendum

Remember Project Fear forecasts of 820,000 immediate job losses if we voted to Leave? We do

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Facts4EU.Org analyses and summarises the latest jobs figures from the ONS

Fresh on the heels of the encouraging economic growth figures for June which we summarised for readers on Saturday (12 Aug 2023), today we publish an analysis of the latest employment situation.

Yesterday the Office for National Statistics released its data for the second quarter of the year, to end-June.

A Brexit Facts4EU two-parter on the jobs situation in the UK and the EU

Part One : Employment – How Brexit Britain defied the doom-mongers (This report)
Part Two : Unemployment – the rate is 60% higher in the Eurozone

In Part Two we will look at unemployment and compare the UK’s rate with that of the EU. It continues to be far worse in the EU than in Brexit Britain and if the BBC will not tell you, we will.

The growth in UK employment since June 2016

The whole employment market may have changed radically since the government-imposed lockdowns which decimated the economy, but despite this many more people are employed now than before the Referendum.

Brexit Facts4EU.Org Summary

Employment of persons aged 16-64 in the UK, June 2016-June 2023

June 2016 - just before the EU Referendum : 30,539,558
June 2023 : 31,524,734 - an increase of 985,176 since the EU Referendum

[Source: Office for National Statistics, 15 Aug 2023]

Actual employment versus what the public were told would happen

During the EU Referendum campaign in 2016, FactsEU.Org repeatedly pointed out the poor performance of the EU when it comes to employment.

We did this in the face of the then Chancellor George Osborne and the then Prime Minister David Cameron seeking to scare the voting public with wild claims of immediate job losses in the UK of up to 820,000 in the event of a vote to leave the European Union.

Naturally, the pro-EU BBC eagerly seized on these irresponsible and erroneous claims

It must be noted that these claims were immediate job losses – they were supposed to happen immediately in the two years following a Leave vote, not the effect of the UK leaving the EU some YEARS later. The above picture is of the BBC's then Economics Editor, pronouncing on the "dire news".

In reality, as we pointed out in the subsequent years, the number of people in jobs following the Brexit vote rose significantly. This was yet another nail in the coffin for Project Fear. No-one apologised for misleading the public in such a grotesque fashion – not the mandarins in HM Treasury (who concocted the wild figures), nor the Chancellor, nor the Prime Minister.

Here is what actually happened

Observations

The latest employment figures released by the ONS yesterday present a mixed picture. The figures would doubtless be even better if we hadn't had a shift in people's attitude to work following the lockdowns. What is clear however is that the British public were grievously misled immediately prior to the EU Referendum.

Not only were the official Treasury forecasts catastrophically wrong, they were so wrong that heads should have rolled. This did not happen of course. Neither has anyone in any position of authority at that time ever apologised for what amounts to a gross deception which was attempted by the Remainer forces in Whitehall and in the then government.

In Part Two of this report, we will compare Brexit Britain's record on employment with that of the EU. (Spoiler alert : The EU does not come out of this well.)

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Reader Comments 20

11. Gazzablack , Wednesday, August 16, 2023, 12:58:

8 luxury balloon
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Well Germany is reliant on high energy consumption industries, which naturally are more severely impacted by higher energy prices.
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Germany and The Netherlands are among that special group of countries that paid lip service to the sanctions imposed on Russia after the annexation of Crimea.
Their selfishness has rebounded on them..
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Germany's unemployment is higher than the UK's, as is the Eurozone's as a whole.
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Manufacturing production June 2023
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United Kingdom +3.1%
Italy -0.1%
France -0.2%
Germany -0.4%
Poland -0.7%
Spain -1.5%

12. Control-Z , Wednesday, August 16, 2023, 13:16:

Though Thatcher never did get my vote, as I was not yet born, she did provide this insightful quote:
"We can play a role in developing Europe, or we can turn our backs on the Community.
By turning our backs we would forfeit our right to influence what happens in the Community.
But what happens in the Community will inevitably affect us.
The European Community is a powerful group of nations.
With Britain as a member, it is more powerful; without Britain it will still be powerful.
We can play a leading role in Europe, but if that leadership is not forthcoming Europe will develop without Britain.
Britain, if she denounced a treaty, cannot then complain if Europe develops in conflict with Britain's interests."
-While it is the equivalent of crying Brexit tears over spilt milk about some of what she said, there is a lot in there that none of her fans seem to know or are determined to unlearn. The very last line is one which will be relevant for as long as we are outside the EU - an unenviable position that Thatcher warned about as a quote from Disraeli in this very same speech:
"... if that country from a perverse interpretation of its insular geographical position, turns an indifferent ear to the feelings and fortunes of continental Europe, such a course would, I believe, only end in it becoming an object of general plunder."
The only sensible way to stop the plunder is to Control-Z Brexit.

13. LuxuryBalloon , Wednesday, August 16, 2023, 14:02:

12 Control-Z … they need us more than we need them.

14. Control-Z , Wednesday, August 16, 2023, 14:31:

10. Robert Mcdonald
The last few years feel more like a gross miscalculation than a mistake.
People learn from mistakes - has anyone here learnt anything about the people they vote for?
Or the MPs themselves, have they learnt anything? I guess they've always known it would never work but if the public vote for it, who can sack them for it? Plus, an eternal scapegoat of the foreign persuasion is a vote winner.
While the pandemic was awful it was not unforeseen.
Officials were "warned four years before the onset of Covid-19 of the need for stockpiles of PPE,
a computerised contact tracing system and screening for foreign travellers" - they were too concerned with Brexit & ignoring experts.
Now would also be a good time to put to rest the myth that Labour are any worse with finance than the Tories.
If anything, the Tories create financial problems & run off, leaving it to 'the markets' or charities to solve.
Or simply kick the can until the next administration deals with it.
No one is resisting democracy - except Trump & his conservative clutch of cultists.
Even that is finally being dealt with by level-headed grown-ups, as should have been from the start.
Brexit is simply now recognised & admitted as being unworkable.
Control of the borders has been extended indefinitely or until Labour turn this bus around.
Milk & apples went missing on a farm too, as would the eggs.
Yet apple trees were still tended, cows were still milked & somehow mash was still produced. The hens were simply starved into compliance.

15. NH , Wednesday, August 16, 2023, 14:43:

12 Control-Z . Thatcher quote "We can play a role in developing Europe, or we can turn our backs on the Community."
With respect you are showing an incredible level of ignorance about past and present events !
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This Thatcher quote was from 1975 when the EU was the European Community and was purely a trading block. When the EU proposed a European parliament Margaret Thatcher became anti European and spoke against it in parliament. She remained anti EU for the rest of her life.
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It was not just Conservative voters who voted for Brexit, have you not heard of the "red wall" voters ?
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Other anti Brexit comments on this site are just ridiculous waffle interspersed with insults. If you want to be taken seriously why don't you present economic date to support your claims. The information about 2010 totally ignores the fact that the Labour party lead the country to a Banking collapse resulting in a deficit of £155 Billion. It was the conservative party that had to take over this deficit and gradually balance the books. This conservative party mainly believed in remaining in the EU. It was the growing support for Ukip, and the fact the Germany and France decided to ignore the UK's legal veto that lead to the democratic referendum.

16. Gazzablack , Wednesday, August 16, 2023, 15:36:

16 NH
As you rightly point out if was the rise of UKIP and the threat that they posed to future Conservative electoral prospects that persuaded Cameron to agree to a referendum.
However he was totally convinced that the majority vote would have been to remain, so much so that he reassured a concerned EU that that's how we'd vote.
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Now I cannot give undeniable proof of such but I truly believe the following:
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1, Cameron never expected to win an outright majority in the 2015, and knew that in a continued Tory/LibDem coalition Nick Clegg would block a referendum
2, If Cameron had had any serious doubts about 'remain' winning, then he would have found a way to renege on or postpone his promise.
3, Had the EU not been reassured by Cameron, and likewise believed that we would vote remain, that they would have invoked the supremacy of EU law to disapply the government's authority to hold a referendum at all.
Once we had voted it was too late, Cameron to his credit honoured the result (even if he did subsequently run away)
Had there been any suggestion at this point of EU courts overruling the vote there would have been uproar.

17. Ashley Great Britain , Wednesday, August 16, 2023, 16:52:

16 Gazzablack.
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And Cameron was told by the EU to stand down, which he duly did.
Subsequently EU courts have not overruled the vote but they have done everything possible to prevent true Brexit and independence, even using our own in house EU supporting moles to Great effect.

18. Gazzablack , Wednesday, August 16, 2023, 17:22:

18, Ashley
They certainly engaged in a war of attrition, but we've held our nerve.
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Here's an amusing piece of news.
"Germany cancels Pacific Nations diplomatic tour because they can't fix government jet"
Green politician Annalena Baerbock's VIP jet is broken, and after the second attempt to fly to Australia the diplomat cancelled the visit.
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"vorsprung Durch Technik"?

19. NH , Wednesday, August 16, 2023, 17:50:

16. Gazzablack
I agree with your comments that Cameron believed remain would win. In his memoirs he clearly states, very angrily, that France and Germany said they would ignore the UK's legal veto. This clearly infuriated him and I believe that by holding a referendum he believed that EU would be forced to grant the UK the changes he was requesting. Luckily they didn't and this was a gift to the Brexiteers.
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If remain had won it would have silenced the EU critics in the conservative party and diminished UKIP. So we have to thank the EU for flouting the law and for their intransigence !

20. Ashley Great Britain , Thursday, August 17, 2023, 06:12:

19 NH.
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That's why the EU were so angry with the ref result.
They thought they could deny us any requests for change as we were already subsumed and deminished (as planned) into the EU vice grip.
They all got a good bloody nose and they didn't like it.
It's also the reason Brexit still hasn't been fully realised, And why we are still fighting on all fronts for complete independence.

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