Quote Originally Posted by Montmorency View Post
I can't tell you what your link reports, but for establishing EU membership status as a substantial factor in the development in a variable, the least you need is the progression of domestic data, i.e. the past and current performance. For example, if one believes that the UK has posted both higher GDP growth and inflation than its counterparts have for many years (though I'm not sure the former is actually the case), it suggests underlying structural factors are at play in which EU membership is not germane either way. If the point is to identify consequences.
It doesn't help that the minister in charge of identifying Brexit opportunities, who is one of the leaders of the movement, and who said that we should be waiting 50 years before drawing conclusions (see also the argument posted here that we should wait 40 years before having another vote), is on record as saying that we should not be measuring the effects of Brexit. Saying so in his capacity as minister for identifying Brexit opportunities.