Chart: The volume of UK goods trade fell sharply in the last five year. Rolling 5-year % change, real exports plus imports. from 2002 - 2010, trade was growing, was approaching stagnation between 2008-2013, grew again until 2019, and then started falling.

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   Emeritus Prof Christopher May (chrismayla6@zirk.us)'s status on Sunday, 03-Mar-2024 02:50:14 JST Emeritus Prof Christopher May

   Well, if you wanted to start a shift to British (economic) isolationism than #Brexit looks to have been a good start... for the last five years the UK has been trading less with other countries (importing/exporting less).

   If this was a structured & planned strategy then one might have been able to assemble an argument for why this made sense.... but an unplanned & chaotic reduction in trade will likely just be hurting #workers (again).

   Didn't 'project fear' have something to say about this?