When there is a 90-10 split among qualified experts on what sets of data to look at and what they mean and so on, the thinktanks that Furunculus rely on are part of the 10 while I tend towards the 90. For instance, the economist he relies on most of all, whose name I've forgotten but the gist of whose arguments I can remember, came up with Furunculus's genius argument of reshaping the UK's economy like Singapore's. Except that Singapore is a city, not a country, whose population is geared towards different norms than the UK's, whose economy and employment models are drastically different from the UK's. And, of course, whose government thinks Brexit is nuts. The logic of this economist leads to the disappearance of the UK's industrial and agricultural economies, which this economist says will be worth it because it will lead to openings for other areas of the economy. We've seen the disappearance of the car industry since 2016, the farmers are belatedly waking up to the logic of Brexit, but we are yet to see the benefits (see the dismissal of the 350 million per week promise and Rees-Mogg's estimation that it may be 50 years before we see things work out better).
That's an example of the thinktank arguments that Furunculus loves posting. Handwaving all negatives because some time in the theoretical future there may come some benefits, just don't ask for evidence of these benefits nor any realistic timeframe. If you were planning any normal project, this kind of plan and research would lead you to seriously questioning the sanity of heading down this path.
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