No. of Recommendations: 3
I'm not sure what kind of freeeeedom they thought they were going to get, but it isn't much of anything about 'new jobs' or 'better economy', that's for sure.
My impression is that they were looking for the freedom to limit immigration and to avoid environmental rules imposed by the EU. Someone correct me if I'm wrong. People concerned with these issues might have believed Brexit would prevent immigrants from taking jobs from natives, thus boosting native employment, and they might have believed environmental rules were such a drag on the British economy that avoiding them would be a bigger boost than the reduction in free trade.
They overlooked or discounted the numerous very real freedoms that they would be giving up with Brexit: freedom of personal movement to and from Europe with ease and rapidity, freedom to easily buy and sell goods to and from Europe, economic freedom of their banks/trading houses to closely integrate with European markets: a freedom crucial to maintaining their prior status as the preeminent financial center in Europe.
But, they for sure didn't like being told they had to accept emigrant workers, and now they don't have to.
