The Daily Dot:
Brits are Googling 'what happens if we leave the EU?' one day after voting to do exactly that
24 June 2016
Markets are crashing around the world, Prime Minister David Cameron has resigned, and things have become uncertain for immigrants to the U.K. and U.K. citizens living abroad in the EU. And Scotland will likely take this opportunity to reconsider that whole independence question. How come nobody predicted this?
Oh, wait, everybody predicted this.
''It's likely that Brexit (and what an ugly neologism it is) would lead to plummeting stock markets and an economic recession, with losses to GDP calculated by the Centre for Economic Performance at up to 9.5% - worse than the 2008 financial crisis,'' wrote Alex Preston in Guardian, more than a year ago. The article was headlined ''What would happen if Britain left the EU?'' and is one of the top Google results for the question.
This article was published online by the Daily Dot on June 24, 2016
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