Snapshot · The Bulwark Podcast
One analysis found that Brexit cost the UK between 4 and 8 percent of GDP over the decade since the vote, due to reduced EU trade and restricted labor flows.
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With Dickerson on six panels and Miller taking in the festival culture, the two do a quick ideas audit. Europe stepping up is the fashionable topic — though Dickerson notes the UK is the Spinal Tap drummer of world leaders, cycling through prime ministers as Ian Bremmer quipped, everyone gets their 15 minutes. Tim Miller flags the Brexit parallel as genuinely alarming: the UK just marked a decade since the vote, a majority now want back in, and one analysis estimates 4–8% of GDP has been lost. More importantly, the US faces the same structural fiscal problem — Medicare, Social Security, interest on debt — and the same political cowardice about touching it, as Starmer's political downfall after restricting pensioner payments demonstrated. On the corporate side, the retreat from DEI and climate commitments is visible in the sponsorship landscape itself: big tech firms that in 2018 were running trust-and-safety panels have quietly stood down, freed by Trump's political environment to drop the performative commitments. [1] — John Dickerson "Britain just marked 10 years of Brexit, and a majority now want to rejoin the EU. One analysis puts the cost at 4–8% of GDP. The US faces t…" 21:00
Britain just marked 10 years of Brexit, and a majority now want to rejoin the EU. One analysis puts the cost at 4–8% of GDP. The US faces the same fiscal math — Medicare, Social Security, interest on the debt — and the same political cowardice about touching it.
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