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Of course any contraction of the economy won't be felt equitably. As always, it will be the people at the bottom of the pile who get the biggest kicking. The potential for harm is not that the economic problems will directly make things unbearably awful, but that the Tory government will be able to blame the promises that it has to break on groups (forrins, immigrants, remainers, socialists, liberal metropolitan elite etc.) in a way that might produce a horribly social toxic mix. They have shown themselves both willing and able to very effectively manipulate the opinion of those that they are most likely to harm and I don't see any reason why they might stop.
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As always, it will be the people at the bottom of the pile who get the biggest kicking
That’s not automatic. The incomes of those at the bottom of the pile are driven more strongly by government welfare policy than by economic conditions. The Tories can shit on them whether there is growth or not.
EDiT: looks like you made the same point later in your comment. Yes agree this could be a nasty pretext for nasty policies... given how thin the Tory manifesto is we just don’t know how nasty.
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A large number divided by a large number in this case produces a small number. I’m just trying to put a brave face on the situation - I think those talking as if any kind of Brexit will put the UK in some kind of 28 days later apocalypse may be taking it a little far.