Winchesterwoman people are already leaving the country. I know several. And I know many more, especially young people and my family who see their future abroad. Science and Technology and our universities, formerly a source of our competitive advantages in the world, are already hit. Excluded from research projects and EU funding, academics feeling this is the time to leave for the golden handshakes in the US having tolerated the funding starved conditions in British unversities for decades, academics and students deterred from coming here. Services and manufacturing may be keeping quiet and waiting to see what emerges from negotiations, who knows, we may emerge with all the benefits we have now, freedom of movement bar some window dressing, and just the loss of a say in the decisions. I think that with the cold hard truth of the impact on the economy and tax revenues already having come home to Phillip Hammond, hence his recent bullish statements on the City, that is a distinct possibility. However make no mistake businesses are busy making contingency plans for every option including a hard Brexit that will see a significant part of our manufacturing and services sector move overseas and the economy contract significantly.
You are older you say, have you given a moment's thought to the young people who valued the opportunities being part of Europe gave them, did not want this and now find already that the opportunities that were available to them pre Brexit have dried up?
Project Fear was a failure because it relied on the same formula that got Cameron elected, and was just as big a con. It could not therefore focus on the benefits of EU membership, and indeed free movement. Those of us who experienced the benefits voted remain, younger people and people whose work meant they understood the wider world. The rest were left by project fear with no clue.......