I think humankind could solve a lot of its ailments if, taken these findings, the affected (here: Scotland) could force restitution from the perpetrators (here: Reform UK, Cambridge Analytica, or parent/descendant entities, e.g. Meta Platforms Inc.)
If you have to pay for what you break, you will think thrice before doing so.
I didn’t read the whole paper, but I did read the article.
When they take the 2016 projections into account, do they factor in that one thing that happened in 2020 which drastically changed the trajectory of most economies worldwide?
Like yeah, it’s provable that Brexit was a bad move from basically every perspective unless you were super rich with significant holdings in the UK, but this feels like bad data to be drawing conclusions from.
They did, the simulated non-Brexit UK has roughly the same trajectory through covid
They don’t need to account for world events. They’re reporting on the actual real world loses.
This is a comparison of Scotland (or rather, the UK, Scotland is just the worst-hit) against a hypothetical version of it that didn’t leave the EU
I want to live in Scottland anyways, just secede and join the EU! <3