Eu Exit Could Add Two Years To Austerity, Ifs Says

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-36371700

Yet another well known and well respected institution comes out in favour of STAY.

Farage doesn't agree, but that can't come as surprise to anyone.

Prime Minister David Cameron said the IFS was the "the gold standard in independent, impartial economic forecasting and commentary in our country".

[ToraToraTora]

oh no not the latest installment of "lets scare the cack out of the gullible" !

[naomi24]

Today's 'Daily Fright Bite'. Watch out for tomorrow's.

[ToraToraTora]

you forgot mikey, holidays are going to get dearer!

[ToraToraTora]

.....and taxes will rise .......and the 10 plagues of Egypt will descend upon us!

[frugalfred]

10% of IFS funding comes from the EU - (Paul Johnson, Director IFS, "Today" programme this morning.)

[Baldric]

Yet more Taxpayer Funded Scaremongering!

[dannyk13]

The stay-in faction are failing to mention the £50.000,000 per day we would save by not contributing to the EU.

[youngmafbog]

Lets not forget all puppies will die !!!

[youngmafbog]

Camoron would say that too wouldnt he (the gold standard rowlocks etc)

Never thought I'd see the day you were quoting a Toff tory.

[Bertrum]

I am getting sick and tired of these so called experts (on both sides) spouting doom and gloom every day. There aint one of them that has or could forecast yesterdays weather
Both sides should admit that forecasting is bunkum and to say otherwise is a lie and if you can’t believe them on this what can you believe them on
Does anyone know if the result of the referendum is leave are the ex commissioners and MEPs entitled to their EU pensions.

[Berniecuddles2]

Seems to me every time the word Brexit comes up the word "could" is always next to it!!

[cashier]

Can they guarantee we won't have two years of austerity if we stay in?

[anotheoldgit]

/// Eu Exit Could Add Two Years To Austerity, Ifs Says ///

So when is austerity suppose to end?

Just wanted to know so that I can add two years to that date, then perhaps we will all have a specific date when we are free of austerity and up and running.

[anotheoldgit]

/// More than 300 historians, meanwhile, have written to The Guardian saying Britain has an "irreplaceable role to play in Europe" and warning against "condemning ourselves to irrelevance" by leaving. ///

I thought historians spent their time looking into the past, not looking into the future?

Leave that to the fortune tellers and their crystal balls.

[viv41]

'Farage doesn't agree'. Neither do I !

[cashier]

"Well respected" by whom?

[jno]

it hasn't come out in favour of anything, it's just given its predictions. Which of course meet with the detailed economic rebuttals already posted here...

[jourdain2]

'''''and apparently Brexit will condemn the emerging countries of the world to perpetual poverty and stop us from finding a cure for cancer. There is also the final victory of the villainous Klingon Empire and the destruction of civilization as we know it. First there will be the plagues, of course.

[ToraToraTora]

I'm amazed no one has said global warming will get worse if we brexit!

[ChillDoubt]

More supposition, conjecture, ifs and buts. If I could rely on every type of forecast that was ever made I'd be a very rich man by now.

After all, such institutions are never wrong, are they?

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/mar/19/budget-george-osborne-rejects-obr-forecast-of-much-sharper-squeeze-on-spending

And even Red Ed dismissed them:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/11584490/Ed-Miliband-The-Institute-of-Fiscal-Studies-is-wrong-about-Labours-spending-plans.html