Quote Originally Posted by RandBlade View Post
I know that. Doesn't change the fundamentals. Even under the worst case scenarios posted by the Remain side (based on full exit of Europe to WTO Tariffs and not a single new trade deal with anyone else - simply not going to happen) we still are scheduled to overtake Germany as number one.

The demographics make it inevitable unless we start to see mass emigration from the UK. You haven't lost Europe's second largest nation in the medium term you've lost the largest.
Hang on. Even if you can't make up your mind which "expert predictions" to like....you're assuming the UK will remain the same, when there's a good chance that it won't. Scotland and Northern Ireland might vote to leave the UK, in hopes of remaining in the EU. (There could even be a "United Ireland" in the next decade, who knows.) Then you'd no longer be the 5th largest economy in the world.

And you'd support their moves toward independence -- for the same reasons you've given for Brexit -- even though it would mean breaking up the UK into smaller pieces, right?