Let's hope so. Getting rid of one level of bureaucrats should speed up the recovery.
Recovery? From what? It was doing damned well before the über clowns arrived in power through the back door, speaking down to us all with their mouths full of cherries. In London it already had the best financial hub anywhere in Europe and probably the world; it had dragged itself out of the Red Robbo days of unionised destruction of the car industry and was again building lots of cars for foreign brands wanting to sell on into Europe.
There were no customs borders, and just-in-time manufacturing chains were well established and worked seamlessly between the island and Germany. Introduce customs, a range of customs duties with the inevitable time delays, and hey, what's that gurgle and tiny cry that I hear from the factory bathroom?
The "bureaucrats" didn't put their fingers in anything; that's one of the major lies and/or misconceptions that people were fed, way before the referendum was a wet dream in certain blue-blooded beds. The rules were set up
between the nations,
agreed, and 'crats never heard from again. Everybody knew the way to trade and how to behave; the blue collar world was well protected (consider the decline in union membership after joining Europe: those unions were made largely redundant because their members were now protected by law.) The main beneficiaries of unions then became those guys who no longer had jobs that anyone required - stoker in a diesel or electric train, for one; keeping them employed under ridiculous titles and at good levels of pay defeated the rationalisation of labour and work systems and industrial economies. The trains are ever more inefficient and prone to labour disruptions. It was the same under both state as private ownership: the unions run the show, just like Hoffa once ran his teamsters.
Now, as the Tories only had their way at the last election because the natural socialst voters lent them their votes and deserted their old red buddies to get one thing, Brexit, just wait and see how Boris et al. will find themselves manipulated by the left just so they can cling on to the borrowed numbers. Makes me think of Robert Johnson at the crossroads: same friggin' deal. Now it thinks it'll find a Klondike in Trump; anyone here would make a deal with him?
