Analysis of official Government data shows how wrong the state-backed Remain campaign was.

6 min readAug 30, 2021

Since the EU Referendum, jobs are up, wages are up — only Project Fear is down

Just over five years ago, millions of British people in jobs gritted their teeth and voted to leave the European Union. They did so in the face of official forecasts from the then Chancellor, pro-EU Remainer George Osborne and his pro-Remain Treasury Department that over half a million of them would almost immediately lose their jobs if they voted Leave.

Here is a screenshot that was taken at the time of the BBC’s coverage of this.

Above the BBC’s then economics editor reporting on the Chancellor’s and Prime Minister’s dire forecasts of job losses, 2016 BBC

The reality has of course turned out to be very different

I have analysed the latest employment and earnings data released by the Office for National Statistics this month. Below I once again put the architects of the state-sponsored Project Fear propaganda to the sword and ask when they will be brought to account?

Jobs and wages — both are up ‘despite Brexit’ and despite Project Fear

From June 2016 (before the EU Referendum) to Feb 2020 (the start of COVID-19)

1. No.of people in employment: Up by 1,326,325

Full-time employment: Up by 1,271,399
Part-time employment: Up by 54,926

Where are all the job losses predicted by the Rermainers?

2. Median monthly pay: Up by 11.3%

In June 2016, pre-Referendum, median monthly pay was £1,652 per month
In Feb 2020, pre-Covid, median pay was £1,838 per month
That’s a rise of £186 per month or 11.3%

Where are all the lower wages predicted by Remainers if you voted to leave?

What happened when COVID-19 hit? I have to ask this as Remain will always try to blame Brexit for any loss

From February 2020 onwards the COVID-19 crisis and the measures taken by Government have had a dramatic effect on the UK economy, as they have on economies worldwide.

The analysis above shows what happened from when the British people voted to leave the European Union to the start of the COVID crisis. But what happened to jobs and wages after that?

From June 2016 (before the EU Referendum) to June 2021:-

Employment has naturally fallen from its highs
But is still up by 529,341 compared to before the Referendum
Median monthly pay has just continued to rise
It is up by £315 per month (19.1%) compared to before the Referendum

This fight was — and is still — about freedom

In 2016 the state-backed Remain campaign decided that the way to guarantee a Remain victory in the EU Referendum was to scare the living daylights out of people. They concentrated on economic arguments and produced official Government forecasts (as well as forecasts from any international body they could persuade) showing massive job losses, economic hardship, and all manner of other things. I have always argued that the 52%-48% win for the Leave campaign would have been more than 60%-40% without the fear factor induced by the then Government and others, leaving people worried about their jobs and their livelihoods.

As it was, the Remain campaign failed to realise that for a great many people the key issue was sovereignty and the ability to act as a free and independent country again. A country with its own laws, border controls, taxes, foreign policy, and social policies. A country/nation without interference from any other country or organisation. A sufficient number of people looked at the Government’s dire forecasts of economic Armageddon if they voted Leave and in true British Bulldog fashion said “we want our freedom, no matter the cost”.

In Brexit Britain, jobs are up, wages are up, and Project Fear is down

Once again I have put to the sword the absurd and apocalyptic threats from David Cameron, George Osborne, and the entire UK and global Establishment which were lined up to intimidate the British people.

In Brexit Britain, jobs are up, wages are up, and the majority of the country is now looking ahead to a bright future. Surely it really is now time for the dwindling (but highly vocal) number of pro-EU politicians and campaigners to stop putting down their own country and apply their energies to something positive instead? And is it not time for some of the worst propagandists for the EU to apologise for misleading the British public in such an egregious way?

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