I don't think Brexit alone is the reason for this trend. France and Germany are also doing rather poorly and they are still in the EU.

Brexit probably has a measurable impact on them to.

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Creating an account to call people “EU fanboys” seems like a juvenile thing to do.

	▲	SideburnsOfDoom 16 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Also, discussing "economic benefits of trade" and the gravity model of trade is not even remotely "fanboy" behaviour.

There's never a reason "alone", but this is a big contributor.

	▲	4ndrewl 15 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Which we were told about and ignored.