BRITAIN is starting to see the benefits of Brexit despite the
doom-mongering of establishment economists who are “trying to save their own
bacon” after making woefully wrong predictions, a top eurosceptic academic said
today.
And, as the Remainers’ woefully misguided predictions get it wrong again
and again, one leading economist says it’s because too many of his
contemporaries see the EU as ‘a religion’.
Professor Patrick Minford, who was one of the leading lights of the Leave
campaign, pointed to a boom in exports as evidence that the UK economy is
“rebalancing” towards manufacturing - something many experts have recommended
for decades.
He said the economy is “doing very well” despite disappointing recent
growth figures, adding that he expected those to be rectified later in the year
when the move towards producing our own goods will start to be reflected on the
nation’s balance sheet.
The economist, who is a professor at Cardiff University, was widely
attacked by Remainer academics last week after he published a report saying
pursuing a policy of unilateral free trade would boost the country’s output by
£135 billion a year.
Europhiles lined up to dismiss the Economists for Free Trade dossier -
with some even arguing the impartial BBC should have censored it - but it has
since been backed by a prominent German free market
economist.
Speaking to express.co.uk Professor Minford said he was “not surprised”
by the overwhelmingly negative reaction to his research, which largely came from
“consensus economists” who had predicted an immediate recession after the Brexit
vote.
