(15-10-2016 06:45 )The Silent Majority Wrote: [ -> ]The pound has plummeted. Fact.
Imports are more expensive. Fact
Just because you're in denial, doesn't mean it hasn't happened.
What denial am I over? I go to the same shops as you do but being unemployed will feel increase in the cost of living going up much much more than you will.
As for day to day shopping I have yet to see any difference in prices. This includes fuel which i thought would have gone up considerably (it being traded in $), it has gone up may be 2 or 3p, it doesn't seem a couple of years ago it was £1.36p a litre, but most of that price is tax.
I believe there was some profiteering using the brexit as an excuse a while back, but didn't stores ban their goods as a protest? Very Very easy for the unscrupulous to stick prices up and blame brexit. Even I know we are still in the EU with the same rules and regulations and trade deals in place now as the day before the vote.
Of course the pound has plummeted, this was totally expected. However, it's at £1.21 (today) as opposed to £1.50 before brexit, in addition, the pound as fallen very low before, and has recovered.
The only person in denial here is you and the other remainers, in as much as all will be doom and gloom, it being totally impossible that anything good can come from it. Most brexit people seem to think there will be a short term hit until things get sorted out, but the UK will recover and when it does will probaly be the better for it.
Britian will be just like any other country out side of the EU (of which there are only 26/7 in the EU in the world, most of those receiving way more than they are contributing the the EU), the rest of the world, especially America, India, China, australia and so on trade quite happily and independantly, knowing that being in the EU is not critical to their trading, and the thoughts of being told what to do in Brussel would be met with derision.
For neutral people such as myself that didn't vote, I will wait and see.