George Osborne and Liz Truss say Brexit would cause a £36 billion financial black hole and loss of sovereignty. Are they joking?

The Chancellor, George Osborne, predicts Brexit would cost every UK family £4,300 and talks of a £36 billion financial black hole.  The Environment Secretary, Liz Truss, says leaving Europe would mean loss of British sovereignty, lower UK wages, and a fall in consumption and that people will be permanently poorer. 

In view of such dire predictions I expect the Minister of Defence to warn that should Brexit occur our European neighbours are well prepared. The French have their Army ready to defend their ports against boatloads of Brits escaping from financial collapse; an armada of Spanish and French warships will enforce an exclusion zone in the English Channel, U-boats from the Deutsche Marine will blockade our North Sea ports while the Luftwaffe is planning a no fly zone over Heathrow and Gatwick.

 

The European Union will offer no sanctuary should an economic apocalypse sweep the UK.  The British will be shunned as, metaphorically, their island drifts away, isolated and bankrupt, into the Atlantic. 

 

I am only joking of course but I had better be careful as Germany is to allow the potential prosecution of a top comedian who made unsavoury jokes about the Turkish President.  Meanwhile German MEP Martin Sonneborn has apparently demanded a European Directive for jokes – he is joking isn’t he?