Brexit Job Loss Index: 436,296 Jobs Lost As Of 31 January 2020

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1. I signed an NDA! says

   February 6, 2019 at 10:46 am

   Cobham helicopter services, closure of Basingstoke office, not on news or websites. I lost my job but now work elsewhere.

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   • John says

     June 7, 2019 at 5:37 pm

     Half a story you ignore the our Goods Trade loss with EU now at £95 000 million . That is where the job s and wealth loss have been lost to .
     Need Hard Brexit with escalating Tariffs to get back our trade .

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     • Peter Simcock says

       July 14, 2019 at 9:39 pm

       You are completely right, also they don’t say how many are lost by nothing to do with Brexit. It’s become boring the doom and gloom they constantly print. To date none of there peddling has been right.

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       • Me says

         September 5, 2020 at 10:28 pm

         Not doom and gloom just Nearly 450000 jobs lost! Who cares! Not exactly the “great brrriittishh success story if we only shake off those dastardly Europeans” the idiots kept saying it would be.

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     • Davis says

       August 14, 2019 at 10:12 am

       Economic illiteracy is a real problem. Trade barriers cost jobs and does not create them. I hope you don’t loose out in a hard Brexit.

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     • Roger Mew says

       February 11, 2020 at 7:32 pm

       Are you completely barmy, as it is many small companies are coming this way, Materials will have to go up as the pound goes down. We living here in France are already seeing stuff coming to britain reducing, companies already here are picking up the british slack. Who exactly and what is britain going to export and who to. We are already seeing that food stuffs coming from Spain are not now and the lorries are picking up the fish to return to Spain that was collected from Spanish boats unloading in england. Costs Halved no need to go to Britain. So no deliveries, English type foods, eg smoked Bacon, Black pudding sausages, beef and lamp from uk is now from Eire. Actually quicker than from Yorkshire and other dairy places and cheeses like Cheddar, Wenslydale Lancashire and the like from Eire. More exports lost from Britain. Come to France small businesses, the local Maires and other businesses will be pleased to greet you. If you have manufacturing tools bring them before next year and there will be no problems. same with staff. many NHS staff have already come.

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     • Mick says

       May 21, 2021 at 3:03 pm

       What utter claptrap.
       I suppose you still think “we hold all the cards” and “there is no downside to Brexit, just a considerable upside”
       I’m still waiting to be told of one Brexit benefit that can be measured.
       Over a trillion pounds in capital moved out of UK in space of 12 months

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     • Martin Herglotz says

       April 22, 2023 at 10:28 am

       We cannot get our trade back under any circumstances. Firms closed are closed, firms moved aren’t coming back. Brexit Britain has shot itself in the bollocks and as a reduction in standards due to British stupidity bonus its also covered in raw sewage as an additional Brexit bonus.

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2. Andy Hickmott says

   February 6, 2019 at 9:02 pm

   Great work! – Andy @MrHickmott

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   • Audrey McFadden says

     May 27, 2019 at 2:21 pm

     Please do not post inaccurancies or lies as it only gives unionists anmmunition and defeats your intent. Michelin is listed in this list and they have 💯 denied they are making redundancies due to brexit. I am a remainder and a yesser and do not condone this. Have you double/triple checked before posting?

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     • C Nicholson says

       June 16, 2019 at 7:10 pm

       Not really the point mate, many are do to brexit because it’s a knock on effect but this is the thing, the government and the leave lot tell us time after time unemployed is at an all time low and yet approximately 300 thousand jobs have been lost, everything about brexit is a lie.
       This is how I see it.
       I now pay £40 more a month for petrol and my wife pays £20, we pay £100 per month more for food, that’s £1920 per year, we pay £1000 more for our Safari holiday each year and approximately £600 extra on our other two holidays, plus exchange rates mean another £800 extra.
       That’s £4320 a year more just because of the exchange rates then no money for police, mental health etc plus it’s a bleeding financial nightmare and I didn’t vote for it.

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       • Hadley says

         October 11, 2019 at 9:49 pm

         Yep 100% agree

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       • Barry Challen says

         January 28, 2020 at 6:48 pm

         Mustn’t mess up the old safari jaunt ,eh

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3. Ashley Jordan says

   February 8, 2019 at 7:05 am

   Can you tell me when you started counting the job losses and business closures? Was it from the date of the referendum, the date the tories won election on promise of referendum or the date the referendum result was announced?

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4. mel says

   February 8, 2019 at 2:38 pm

   Is their a list of job creations? for balance? and his mythology sorry methodology has included Jaguar land rover? their slump is down to eu regulations and UN paris climate accord.

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   • Andy Hickmott says

     April 22, 2019 at 8:37 am

     And diesel. Don’t forget diesel.

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     • Martin Herglotz says

       April 22, 2023 at 10:33 am

       Michelin have closed and then expanded in Germany due to having only 66 million potential UK customers and from Germany they can supply 495 million potential customers. Brexit is the reason, even if you find it unpalatable Audrey

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   • Ray says

     October 7, 2019 at 2:47 pm

     The slump is mainly due to the EU funding a factory to be built in Slovakia which is where the new Landrover Defender is being built.

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     • Glenn says

       September 17, 2020 at 7:09 pm

       The EU bank has actually loaned the Indian Company Jaguar Land Rover the funds to build a plant near to most of the component suppliers. The EU Bank did the same at Ford when all engine manufacturing was transferred to UK in the late 90’s.

       The Ford loan was also described as a “grant” by people who wanted to stoke up anti EU feelings.

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     • Martin Herglotz says

       April 22, 2023 at 10:36 am

       How much did the EU pay? Ray, Brexit is the best thing you ever did, if you are mad keen on sewage filled rivers, redundancies by the truckload, nurse shortages, hospitality closures and on, and on and on

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   • Sam says

     February 20, 2020 at 11:41 pm

     What a thoroughly misleading article, plenty there that have absolutely nothing to do with Brexit and lots that had planned cuts before Brexit was even a thing!

     Scare mongering at its worst.

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     • Martin Herglotz says

       April 22, 2023 at 10:38 am

       Which one is not due to Brexit? According to the published news articles, all are directly because of Brexit.

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   • Me says

     September 5, 2020 at 10:32 pm

     So jag must be booming now then eh? Oh no it’s not!

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5. John Trumble says

   February 9, 2019 at 11:55 pm

   Since Brexit was announced The amount of people unemployed as decreased through all these job losses that must’ve been more jobs created. There for brexit it was a good move to get the the country in employment.

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   • Tom Thumb says

     March 7, 2019 at 5:42 am

     The government employed figures now include people caring for a relative or even working only one hour per week so they are deliberately misleading

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     • Lisa says

       March 10, 2019 at 10:36 pm

       Also companies are employing more people as opposed to investing in capital as they are easier to dispose of once any decision is taken post Brexit.

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   • Terry Bassett says

     June 10, 2019 at 10:06 pm

     Many EU citizens literally “fled” the UK following the referendum, and the subsequent racially motivated attacks and abuse, many in fear of their own lives. Consequently, many people who “found jobs” walked into the vacancies the exodus of EU citizens created.

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     • Alan says

       November 29, 2019 at 1:09 am

       Exactly how many? Do you have actual figures or is this more remainer smoke being blown up our ar5es?

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   • Chris Nicholson says

     June 16, 2019 at 7:21 pm

     Hahahaha that’s like saying less people died of cancer so let’s keep smoking lol, when you look at the total amount of unemployed it’s over one million so the point you need to look at it is, how many job vacancies do we have, it’s over 50 thousand in the NHS alone plus many more, you also have to take into consideration the 252 large businesses that left the U.K. to relocate in Holland because we are leaving the single market 4 months ago took most of their employees with them.
     As much as you may want this lie to work mate, it won’t because we have already lost more than we will ever gain.
     Of course you can live in denial, never research, never listen to experts and just except the lies of the top leaves then everything is great mate.

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     • Alan says

       November 29, 2019 at 1:10 am

       Who are these mythical 252 companies please? can you name them?

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       • Me says

         September 5, 2020 at 10:35 pm

         They are listed at the top of this article

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   • Martin Herglotz says

     April 22, 2023 at 10:39 am

     John, you’re wrong. Look it up.

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6. Sean Walter says

   February 23, 2019 at 11:11 am

   No mention that the UK as of 2019 has record employment or that the employment rate has increased 1.4% since the EU referendum.

   https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/employmentandemployeetypes/timeseries/lf24

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   • admin says

     February 26, 2019 at 11:22 am

     My main response is that the number would be even better without these 200k job losses.

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     • Stephen Barr says

       April 25, 2019 at 2:07 pm

       And my ‘main response’ is that you’ve rather missed the point!!

       This country has record employment ‘Despite Brexit”. For whatever reasons…which can be argued…we’ve never had it so good employment-wise.

       My second response is that you seem to be suggesting that every job loss is due to Brexit. However, it seems that the told number of Job losses is lower that in previous periods as well, which would suggest that at worse, Brexit has had no effect at all.

       That is not to suggest that any job loss or company closure is not a sad thing, but in aggregate, the Country is doing amazingly well, and better than any other large EU economy.

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       • JBW says

         May 26, 2019 at 7:35 pm

         “Record employment” doesn’t mean full-time employment on a living wage! As far as the Tory Party’s claim I believe it includes the drop in full-time jobs, the rise in part-time jobs and also the rise zero hours contracts – all counting as forms of “employment”. So not directly comparable. Maybe ‘Full Fact’ have the data?

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         • Martin Herglotz says

           April 22, 2023 at 10:41 am

           Name the economy doing worse than Great Britain, Steve

       • C Nicholson says

         June 16, 2019 at 7:36 pm

         My response to that would be, we are one of the few countries that actually encourage people to work less than 14 hours a week, pay them benefits then count them as employed, put that with the hundreds of thousands of zero contracts, self employed who could easily be without work and get no benefits at all so wouldn’t show up as unemployment, hundreds of thousands of apprenticeships which cost the employer nothing as the government pays their wages that’s whe we have low unemployment.
         That’s basically common knowledge mate, having said that it’s I’m sure you like to keep your dreams alive, problem is, it’s a financial nightmare mate, it’s reality I’m afraid, try getting petrol at the same price, food, holidays, exchange rates everything is more expensive because the pound has devalued by 18 percent, our economy growth, was 2.9 percent, now 0.9 percent, pound 1.37 euro now 1.10, everything has gone up, the country has lost over 100 billion plus we continue to lose billions more, so tell me what financial gains are you looking forward to based on fact.

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       • Richard Stone says

         October 5, 2019 at 7:19 pm

         The bulk of new employment is part time. The DWP count even 2hrs work per month as “employed” for statistical purposes. Hence, “record” employment. More massaging of figures to suit political gain. Never trust the conservatives

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       • Tom says

         February 11, 2020 at 10:50 pm

         Look at the governments figures properly, the Con-servatives will tell you how great employment is in this country, but do they tell you how many people are having to do two and three jobs to survive, and the reason they are doing two and three jobs is because none of the jobs they are doing give the proper hours or rate of pay or even gauranteed hours.

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       • Me says

         September 5, 2020 at 10:38 pm

         So the country has record employment does it, “despite brexit”. So your admitting brexit was bad and without it we’d have even higher employment?

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       • Tony Bowden says

         September 20, 2021 at 3:05 pm

         You have missed the point; the government changed the statistics for measuring employment. Looking at those in full time posts and you will find a drastically different picture

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     • Sean says

       July 7, 2019 at 6:44 am

       The government has to use the Lifeforce Survey, and the methodology as set out by the EU in determining employment and unemployment statistics. This is so that the stats on employment / unemployment are regularised across the EU.

       They have done so for 20 years.

       It comes under EU Regulation 577/98 plus amendments, and quite clearly defines what constitutes employment.

       So blame the EU for the ‘false figures’, not the government.

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       • Me says

         September 5, 2020 at 10:49 pm

         All the EUs falt is it? The reality is every single problem in this country is caused directly by this country’s government. Both the current and previous! The fact is the Torres or for that matter Labour don’t care about you or me or anyone who’s not donating money to them in the form of party political donations. The British Government has only ever cared about the top 10%, not the peasants in the bottom 90%. The whole game is about getting poor people to fight each other instead of the corrupt system that allows the top 10% to live in luxury whilst the rest of us make the money for them.

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       • Tony Bowden says

         September 20, 2021 at 3:10 pm

         Labour Force Surveyy is collated by individual countries and then sent to the EU so think you need to go back to the drawing board

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   • Peter says

     March 8, 2019 at 9:32 am

     Nothing to sing and dance about with zero hours employees on low wages brighting up government employment statistics

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   • Adam says

     March 13, 2019 at 12:48 am

     Govt. employment figures now include people caring for a relative & those working only one hour per week. Talk about fixing the “facts”.

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   • Terry Bassett says

     June 10, 2019 at 10:09 pm

     How many of these are zero hours contracts, which the DWP, under Government orders, have included as people being “in employment”…..

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7. Stephen Wichard says

   February 23, 2019 at 11:30 am

   – 669,855 new companies in 2018, up 4.6% on 2017
   – Record-high 217,000 new London businesses
   – 1 million more UK companies now compared to 2013

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8. iolanthe says

   February 23, 2019 at 11:38 am

   And what about those firms that moved abroad for cheaper production costs due to grants from…the EU? Is there a list of lost jobs/earnings/income tax for that as a comparison? Otherwise this is just a list of firms.

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   • C Nicholson says

     June 16, 2019 at 7:46 pm

     In the last 4 months 252 businesses including Sony and Panasonic have relocated in Holland, they stated, our costs will be about the same moving to Holland but after we leave the single market in the U.K. it would have been unproductive and we couldn’t operate competitively.
     We should make our normal profit 5 years after the move.
     It bull to keep saying these companies move with an Eu grant, many businesses have moved here with an Eu grant, you need to look at why are companies moving now after being here for 20 years or more, if they are relocating in another Eu country it’s because then want to be in the single market
     If you can’t see this financial nightmare then there’s not much hope of me explaining so good luck, keep in denial

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9. David Foster says

   February 23, 2019 at 10:43 pm

   You need to full publish the quotes from the employers and the full statistics. Because you ideology with this is INCORRECT
   you cannot blame all of these job losses on Brexit. From your stats in this article Many and too many to mention have been losses due to the Influx of EU cash to reduce that industry to zero in the UK by moving it to the EU. I strongly suggest you check it all out. Oh are you receiving any form od cash from the EU to produce this as propaganda.

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   • admin says

     February 26, 2019 at 11:21 am

     The methodology is clearly listed on the page.

     “Oh are you receiving any form od cash from the EU to produce this as propaganda.”

     I wish, any idea how I can get some EU money?

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     • Jack says

       April 30, 2021 at 1:52 pm

       This “info” is completely rubbish

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10. Sam says

    March 5, 2019 at 11:13 am

    Need to analyse this as percentage of jobs in the area. London may have largest number but as a percentage of the workforce it’s tiny

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11. Zoe Ashton says

    March 7, 2019 at 2:45 pm

    What about EMA https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jan/26/european-medicines-agency-closes-london-office-with-loss-of-900-jobs-brexit

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12. Yvonne Gill says

    March 10, 2019 at 5:50 pm

    There will be more not yet included on this list. The company for which I work has been cutting staff over the past 12 months as a direct result of Brexit. I have an email to that effect from the CEO in Switzerland. Over 100 so far, the reason that I cannot give an exact figure is that this has been done ‘by stealth’. Every day we come in to find that someone else is going.

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13. Mohammed Hussain says

    March 16, 2019 at 10:36 pm

    Brexit jobs losses not only that its allready too much cuts despite brexit. Plus from 2008 reccesion not recovered yet. Everything is on goverment funded jobs nothing is natural its seems like. And now brexit which i see more than 25 percents will be lost in economy this is new figure. Bear in mind last recession not recovered, So this is getting prolonged no one know when will be over. And this brexit more than 25 percent loss the after math and side effect will be another 25 percents plus the last receccesion that is 25 percent also. My reasearch show total 75 percent will be loss since the peak at 2004. And i don’t know when it will recover. I don’t think it will happen in 30 yrs or 100 yrs. We are all doomed. Its seem for ever. I hope not. But the way its looking is very bad future. We are going back in time 1960s.

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    • C Nicholson says

      June 16, 2019 at 7:57 pm

      Oh dear, the denial is acute on this page.
      By May 2016 we had come through the financial crisis and the recession, the pound was not at its potential but it was around 1.50 on the dollar and 1.37 on the euro.
      We had the fastest growing economy in Europe and we were the fifth richest nation in the world.
      Now the dollar is 1.27, the euro 1.10, we are in the bottom 5 fastest growing economy in Europe and we are the 6th richest nation in the world.
      Our economy growth was running at 3 percent its now at 0.9 percent
      Hundreds of businesses have left because we are leaving the single market
      Financial services have transferred 800 billion pounds to Frankfurt and after we leave they are going to sell their services for the Eu from Frankfurt which means we lose the revenue, 48 billion pounds net
      Research rather than sound desperate mate.

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      • Ray says

        October 7, 2019 at 2:49 pm

        The problem is the remainer parliament creating uncertanty for the last three years.

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        • L Robertson says

          February 24, 2020 at 12:35 am

          Yeah, that was it mate. All those pesky public servants trying their hardest to stop a criminal syndicate headed by a blonde self serving cockroach perpetrating the greatest act of national self harm that Europe has seen since the Spanish Civil War, just to save on their taxes and remove the EU legislative blocks on exploiting the workforce and removing the standards that will open up the UK markets to the US Mafia, big pharma and lower food standards.

          I applaud your deeply researched convictions…. and no The Sun does not qualify as research!

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14. Bryan Heighway says

    March 27, 2019 at 6:07 am

    I support what you are doing, but fact checked Dawnusa d first hit was this, https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-47567023 . Administration seems to have been caused by work in Africa that seem has not recovered from. Could I suggest you put in link to article that links job loss to Brexit in the pull down that appears. That said you are doing a great job

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15. Nick Holmes says

    April 16, 2019 at 7:59 pm

    Great work. Can you not cite a link to the source that qualifies it as a Brexit related loss? Would be a lot more powerful that way.

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16. Phil Dodds says

    April 18, 2019 at 7:57 am

    you claims are spurious and unfounded with out any substantiated evidence.

    Very few of the companies mentioned claimed Brexit had anything to do with the down sizing.

    You are just as bad as the leave side that makes some very dishonest claims.

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17. Alan says

    April 20, 2019 at 2:50 pm

    House of Fraser lost 12,500 jobs?
    How did you arrive at that?

    Number of employees: 6,000 direct, 11,500 concession according to Wikipedia

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18. Millpoint well made says

    April 24, 2019 at 11:03 am

    This is simply misleading and tendencious. That any job losses occurring after the Brexit but ascribed to it is quite ludicrous. And as for the supposed assessment of the deeper austerity – it’s breathtaking. Has the compiler of this nonsense heard of the Chinese economic slowdown? Or the diesel car scandal? Or new EU emissions rules for cars. Sorry, this is pitiful and should be deleted.

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19. Jason Smith says

    May 6, 2019 at 4:42 pm

    Aside from all the other comments, which raise some valid points about the accuracy not only of the numbers, but of their attribution to Brexit….how the hell do you attribute 1,000’s of council job losses as bring down to Brexit. Only a totally blinkered and biased remainer would do anything with these figures other than laugh….poor attempt overall pal, very poor attempt

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20. David jarman says

    May 19, 2019 at 4:44 pm

    Post some links to back your claim.
    I thought unemployment was at its lowest according to government figures.

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21. Tom says

    May 21, 2019 at 9:39 am

    This is a Back-door, no-deal, Brexit

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22. Alex says

    June 6, 2019 at 8:12 am

    I used to do a lot of well paid contract work on multi European IT projects that were primarily based and paid in the UK, with occasional visits to other countries. Old projects would come to an end after a few years, but there was always new projects at other companies starting up to replace them.

    Now, the new big multi European projects are starting up in other EU countries, not the UK. Increasingly, the work available in the UK is just the relatively minor UK leg of a project based elsewhere.

    I have not seen this type of loss of work reported, as it is not obvious, but it has already been happening for the last couple of years.

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23. Stuart says

    June 6, 2019 at 6:08 pm

    This website is the perfect example of Confirmation Bias in action.

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24. E Cooke says

    June 10, 2019 at 8:19 am

    This list is a complete load of rubbish.

    The first criterion (and apparently the most significant) refers to the devaluation of Sterling as a reason for job losses. The referendum was 2 years ago and over the last 3 years Sterling has traded at between 1.1 – 1.2 Euros to the Pound, which is as consistent as it could ever be. Ie no devaluation compared to the instute we are leaving. Versus the US Dollar this idea is just as laughable 2 years ago you got about 1.25 dollars to the pound, the same as you get today, in the intervening period it has been as high as 1.4. Google it for yourselves if you don’t believe me.

    Secondly the three largest areas of job losses are banks, the motor industry and bricks and mortar retail and a few other isolated cases.

    50,,000
    Debenhams, House of Frazer, Jones The Bootmaker, Jamie Oliver, Poundland, Maplin and many more have gone under due to a combination of high rents, high business rates, competition from e-commerce. The high st has been declining for almost 20 years now.

    3,000
    The banks have closed branches due to technology, the use of cash is diminishing, therefore high st branches aren’t necessary any more.

    48,000
    The automotive industry is undergoing massive change as traditional diesel and petrol cars are being replaced by hybrid and electric cars, the Japanese are taking manufacturing home. There has also been a collapse of the luxury car business mainly in China hitting Jaguar Land Rover hard. These plants would have closed regardless of Brexit.

    18,000
    CSC lost their contract with the NHS because of a failed government project Carrillion went under due to flawed government contracts. Monarch crashed due to a lack of finance. The development of a new nuclear plant was shelved due to nuclear politics. British Steel’s collapse is hardly a surprise, old industries like mining and steel have no future in the UK and have been hanging on with government aid for years.

    That’s about 100,000 jobs that at a cursory glance have gone which would have gone regardless of Brexit.

    You’ve also listed tens of thousands of job losses in the public sector. Since the welfare state was formed after WWII the numbers employed by the public sector has increased every year. Jobs are lost in one area and replaced immediately in another.

    I know this list is a joke when you include 700 job losses at the Job Centre. Seriously?

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    • Stephen says

      October 15, 2019 at 6:00 am

      Agree totally. The most misleading piece of rubbish I’ve ever seen.
      There needs to be a similar list of job losses covering the 3 years preceding the referendum and its discussions, for comparison.
      Pound World and Vivergo fuels, both companies that I worked for, closures nothing to do with Brexit, Vivergo was failure of government support and broken promises on E10 as an initiative on greener fuels, a very involved and deep argument. Puoundworld was changes in company trading practices, bad management and inability to service debt. Thomas Cook is bad management using an un workable business model of high Street shops with a pricing structure competing with Internet bssed competitors.
      The background research is non-existant and the methodology child like and deliberately misleading.

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25. C Nicholson says

    June 16, 2019 at 8:04 pm

    The pound devalued from 1.50 on the dollar to 1.26, 1.37 ont the euro to 1.10, 53 baht to 38 Baht etc etc, don’t see your point mate.
    The pound has devalued by 18 percent, we spend approximately 600 billion a year on imports which means it costs us 100 billion pounds a year more.
    Plus hundreds of other financial nightmares, what planet are you on, is it la la land.

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26. Peter says

    June 20, 2019 at 10:10 pm

    Really annoyed about this. I voted remain and would vote remain again however what I despised the most about the Leave campaign was the lies told.

    Yet I read this article and see Scunthorpe (I live just outside Scunny and travel in most days) has reported 5,400 job losses due to Brexit of which 5,000 are at British Steel.

    To correct this and remove Scunthorpe from the top 3 places in job losses, you need to remove the 5,000 job losses at British Steel as they are still open, still trading and the workers there are still working.

    No need to tell lies. The truth is already bad enough.

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27. John Lawson says

    June 25, 2019 at 3:00 pm

    What complete utter crap!
    Just one example is Honda, which you list, yet isn’t closing until 2020. Honda themselves say this is nothing to do with Brexit. It’s more likely due to the new trade partnership between the EU and Japan, which means that Japan will now be able to export from Japan to the EU tariff free (was 10% for cars)

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    • Mate Kocsis says

      September 16, 2019 at 8:53 am

      yes exactly as you say, so if UK would stay inside the EU there would be no need for Honda to leave, so at the end it is due to Brexit.

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28. David Epps says

    June 25, 2019 at 5:59 pm

    Never read so much garbish in my life, FAKE NEWS FAKE NEWS FAKE NEWS

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29. Peter says

    June 26, 2019 at 10:30 am

    I own a small business and we will be able to reduce our prices by 10% when, or if we ever leave the EU; providing we change the tariff structure to reflect global trading conditions.

    I would respectfully suggest almost all the job losses you mention in your research would have happened anyway and we have not left the EU yet, so it is difficult to assign these losses to our leaving when we haven’t. Yes, the uncertainty is an issue and that needs to be addressed urgently by leaving to bring confidence and the ability to plan for the future back into companies and boardrooms.

    There will be challenges and opportunities from leaving the EU but assigning ALL these job losses to something which has not happened yet is a little disingenuous.

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30. Darren Priestley says

    June 26, 2019 at 12:29 pm

    You all seem to forget one little detail.
    WE HAVEN’T LEFT YET!!
    Any losses so far are due to either the EU rulings or due to the uncertainty of our current parliamentarians.

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31. bill says

    July 5, 2019 at 5:41 pm

    that list is very misleading cause you state brexit is the cause of all the job losses and that is factually wrong, you should do your research a lot better before saying the above its 75% fake news.
    how can you state its the fault of brexit when its not happened yet?
    e.g
    monarch airlines went bust nothing to do with brexit
    numerous councils again nothing to do with brexit (government cuts at fault)
    job centres/dwp nothing to do with brexit (again government cuts)
    flybmi went bust due to financial problems
    Centrica job cuts due to fall in profits
    Carillion due to mis-management

    and the list goes on

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32. stephen Leinster says

    July 14, 2019 at 1:49 pm

    what utter rubbish . took one look at the list and first on thre was R Durtnell. a company that has been in trouble since 2008 yet you put its demise down to brexit .
    Let me guess remainer?

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33. TJones says

    July 14, 2019 at 3:12 pm

    The REAL reason behind many job losses is the company decided to close anyway, has had a better offer to move to EU or was on the rocks anyway. But most importantly, the REMAIN camp delays and double dealing leading us all into uncertainty and long long debates, are the real reason any job losses due to economic uncertainty has happened. Blame where blame is due….at the feet of all the REMAIN voters causing havoc!

    It is a pretty broad spectrum of blame being used in this article! If you use the same logic, then any increases in jobs, productivity, profits, economic booms, must be due to the effect of Brexit also! Has the fact that ‘self-employment’ according to the FT has risen, been factored in? According to gov.uk, The unemployment rate is now 4.2% – down 0.4% since last year – with the number of people out of work falling by 115,000.‘Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Esther McVey said:

    The employment rate has never been higher – with over 3.3 million people moving into work since 2010.

    It’s a great British success story with businesses from Exeter to Edinburgh creating jobs – helping, on average 1,000 people find a job each and every day since 2010.

    And with the increase in the personal tax allowance, this government has ensured that people are keeping more of their money before they begin paying tax – meaning more take-home pay, that’s more money in your pocket for you and your family.

    Minister for Employment, Alok Sharma said:

    At 75.6%, the employment rate has never been higher, with more people in work than ever before. And with a continued fall in unemployment, we have a strong jobs market that’s set 17 new employment rate records since 2010.

    It’s also very welcome news that the ONS has reported that regular pay has outpaced inflation for the third month in a row.

    The increase in personal allowances means that the typical basic rate taxpayer is now paying £1,075 less in income tax than in 2010. Thanks to the National Living Wage full time minimum wage workers have had an annual boost of £2,000 since 2016.

    Today’s figures also show:
    private sector employment is now at 27.04 million, up by over 3.7 million since 2010
    the number of women in work is at a record high of 15.26 million
    youth unemployment has fallen by over 40% since 2010
    the number of workers aged 50 plus has reached a record 10.18 million
    Britain has a joint record high employment rate of 75.6% with 32.39 million people now in work according to the latest official statistics.’

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    • Julian Eaves says

      July 17, 2019 at 9:41 pm

      To be considered ‘in work’ by the Tories, you only have to do ONE HOUR’S UNPAID voluntary work every TWO WEEKS. These figures above are meaningless. LOST JOBS that PAY A LIVING WAGE are NOT.

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    • Ian Mullen says

      August 3, 2019 at 10:13 am

      Just one question. Has the zero hour workers been taken out of this statistic ?? These are neither full time jobs and distort figures aggressively with most working less than 22 hours

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34. Robert W says

    August 15, 2019 at 12:43 pm

    Honda have said time and time again the job losses aren’t due to Brexit, although I think it is.

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35. bob says

    September 19, 2019 at 9:26 am

    Burberry moved offices up to Leeds. No job losses there I am afraid. certainly not 200

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36. Richard England says

    September 20, 2019 at 8:59 am

    Perhaps I’m being a bit daft, but isn’t the Retail sector being hit with job losses principally because of the rise of online retailing, rather than Brexit fears?

    In your enthusiasm to prove that Brexit is a bad idea (which I agree with) I think you are casting doubt and uncertainty on concerns by promoting poor analysis.

    Perhaps revisiting some of the assertions would help. The Retail sector might be impacted by Brexit concerns (a bit) but competition from online retailing is the key problem, together with business rate rises and beyond-inflation rent rises from greedy property management firms have hit far harder. In addition there are other factors, not so easy to measure. For instance the retail sector is getting hit with a new generation of managers (such as at John Lewis and M&S) who have no concept of customer service provision, and consequently are impacting on profits. M&S is suffering because it outsourced the manufacture of clothing to Bangladesh years ago, and the quality and cut of clothing is now so poor it is impacting sales significantly. Nothing to do with Brexit though.

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    • Alan Johnson says

      February 26, 2020 at 3:17 pm

      Your statement about the quality of Managers within the retail sector is quite a sweeping statement – what qualifies you to make such an assertion?

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37. Anthony Blighe says

    September 23, 2019 at 1:14 pm

    This article is utter baloney. They list job losses but fail to list newly created jobs. As we all know very well, the jobs market is not static, jobs are created and destroyed all the time. This is like me looking at all the outgoings on my bank statement and reporting that I’m bankrupt, while ignoring all the income.

    UK unemployment June 2016: 4.9%, May 2019 3.8%.

    I’m wondering how anyone would give this website the time of day.

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38. B K Williams says

    October 5, 2019 at 4:23 pm

    This article is a complete load of bollux. You can spin these figures as much as you like, but weather they are due to Bexit (which has not yet happened) is a mute point. i suspect any losses since the referendum has been caused by the ongoing attempt to stop Brexit. It has caused firms to be cautious about investment, leading to lack of production. Any automotive associated firms who have suffered, is due to the European slow down in car sales. The new EU rules which will impact on Diesel cars has caused people to put off buying new cars. This is reflected in the 600,000 car workers across Europe who’s jobs are at risk. Germany is the most effected with VW laying off 30k employees already. You mention Austerity being part of Brexit. Yes it is, it is the EU Austerity Plan, not our governments. A clause in the Maastricht treaty triggered after the Labour government in 2009, and the new COALITION government had to put a plan forward to the EU to cut the Debt to GDP percentage, which included Raising Retirement Age and Raising VAT to 20%, on top of the cuts. Of cause they never told us this for obvious reasons. So yes, if brexit had gone ahead the Austerity Plan could be stopped without asking permission from the EU. Now look at the jobs lost in manufacturing over the last TEN YEARS, compiled by the GMB Union. https://www.gmb.org.uk/news/almost-500000-uk-manufacturing-jobs-lost-10-years.

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39. B K Williams says

    October 5, 2019 at 4:25 pm

    EU recession
    Industrial output is in crashing. Retail sales have stagnated. Business confidence has dropped, and investment is heading south. A sharp slowdown might have been expected for Britain heading out of the European Union, America where the president is busily ripping up half a century worth of carefully constructed trade agreements, or China, which has been on a decade of wild, credit-fuelled growth.
    But the real slowdown is happening in the one place where few economists expected it. It is now painfully obvious that the eurozone is heading into a sharp recession.
    The numbers coming out of all its main economies, from Germany to France, Italy and Spain, are relentlessly bad. What does that mean? Far from winding up quantitative easing, the European Central Bank will be forced to step in with emergency measures to rescue a failing economy – but it may well prove too little, too late.
    2018 was meant to be the year when the eurozone consolidated its steady recovery, agreed on reforms to fix the flaws in the single currency, pressed forward with reforms to boost its competitiveness, and gave the rest of the world a lesson in balanced, sustainable growth.
    Over the past year, a ton of investors’ money has bought into the Euro-boom story. Steady recovery would drive voters away from populist parties, encourage reform, and create a virtuous circle of expansion and renewal.
    The script has not quite worked out as planned, however. Today brought yet another wave of disappointing numbers. Italian industrial production was down 2.6pc year on year. In Spain, industrial output was also down 2.6pc, the fastest rate of contraction since May 2013.
    The day before, we learned that French industrial output was down by 1.3pc in November, and Germany, which is meant to be the main engine of the continent, recorded a decline 1.9pc for the month, as well as re-calculating October’s data to show a steeper drop than reported earlier.
    The eurozone is now seeing a synchronised slowdown right across all its major economies. Germany looks certain to be in technical recession, defined as two consecutive quarters of shrinking output, and France and Italy will not be far behind.
    Spain, which had been growing faster than most of the continent, is slowing and so will the smaller economies. Add all that up, and it clear the whole continent is heading into a fresh downturn, even though employment and output have yet to recover their 2008 levels.
    Sure, there are some special factors to explain that. German industry has been hit by the slowdown of its massive auto industry, and especially the re-tooling of factories to meet new diesel and regulatory standards.
    In France, the Gilets Jaunes protestors haven’t exactly helped: riots and boarded up shops are not the kind of thing that encourages people to go out and spend money, even in a county that is used to protests. Italy is engulfed in a political fight with Brussels over its budget policies and is suffering a fresh round of banking problems. Arguably, once those are overcome, growth will get back to normal.
    Well, perhaps. The trouble is, those sound suspiciously like excuses. In fact, every economy always faces a few challenges, and the eurozone’s are no worse than anyone else’s. Indeed, they look relatively mild compared to many of its competitors. The UK has to contend with the chaos of Brexit, and the United States with rising interest rates, and rising protectionism. Even so, both are now growing faster.
    In fact, there are two big weaknesses. First, led by Germany, the whole of Europe has allowed itself to become dangerously dependent on exports. The German trade surplus at more than 8pc of GDP leaves that country brutally exposed to the cross-winds of global trade.
    But it not just Germany. In 2017, the surplus for the zone as a whole hit a massive €345bn, up from €207bn five years earlier. The whole continent is hooked on exports.
    Talk of trade wars, a slowdown in China, and a hit to the emerging markets all mean the European economy suffers first from any slowdown (Brexit is hardly helping either, with Germany’s surplus with the UK already narrowing and likely to fall further). An export-led model is great when the global economy is expanding – but can turn against you very quickly.
    Next, the euro remains a relentlessly deflationary currency that has ripped demand out of whole economies. With weakened banking systems, towering imbalances between the core and the periphery, puny wage growth, relentless austerity, and mass unemployment, it has proved itself over two decades incapable of generating any meaningful internal demand. Most countries can reflate their economies with consumer spending, easier credit, and a cheaper currency. The euro-zone can’t do any of that.
    The fleeting recovery of the 2017 and early 2018 now looks to have been fuelled purely by the two trillion of freshly minted euros the ECB threw at the economy. It has proved incapable of creating a self-sustaining recovery.
    The ECB was expected to start normalising policy this year, ending QE and raising interest rates. In the face of the latest data, a rise in rates can now be ruled out. The central bank is far more likely to have to start printing money again by the spring – but by then it may already be too late to pull the zone out of a slump.

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40. Graham says

    October 9, 2019 at 12:21 am

    Seen this list crop up a few times recently and have been struggling as to why it exists.

    Is it trying to convert leavers to remainers? If so, it’s an epic failure, why you ask, because leavers will see companies on this list and immediately discredit the complete list due to a number of entries being completely nonsense, Honda have publicly said nothing to do with Brexit, why would they say this, who are they protecting by lying (one example of many misleading entries)

    Or is it to reinforce that brexit is a bad idea to remainers. If so, why have you wasted so much time on this, many many news outlets available for people to get their daily dose of brexit disaster stories.

    I’m not sure how much time has been spent on this, but feel it may have been wasted.

    I’m not denying that job losses have occurred due to brexit, but the true numbers should only relate to the people that genuinely lost jobs to brexit and are still unemployed.

    Many people will be disadvantaged by Brexit, but that was also the case when we joined (recommend reading about New Zealand export to the uk pre and post joining. I’d also read about the decline in the uk motor industry since joining and the many other skilled labour jobs lost to cheaper labour in the EU). Tariffs are seen as the devil because it hits people in the pocket, but they also help level the playing field when it comes to the cost of labour. (not to mention that import tariffs go to then government for further investment into the uk) If the EU had a standard minimum leaving wage I’m sure we’d have a lot more industry in the uk; as long as we still had tariffs on counties outside the EU of course.

    Imho, regarding the economy the best short term outcome would be to stay in the EU. Long term nobody knows and is it worth the gamble, probably not.

    For a lot of leavers it goes a lot deeper than money, many aren’t well off now and I think they see it as a punt that things could be better.

    Also, you mention the weak pound, this could also be seen as good, yes it means your holiday costs more, but it also helps our exporters be more cost effective.

    But then if we are really worried about climate change surely we should be encouraging locally produced as much as possible even though it might cost more money. But then I’m all for a carbon tax, buy apples grown in the uk carbon tax free, imported, pay a carbon tax – government then use monies collected to invest in green energy projects. But this won’t be liked because it’ll hit people’s pockets.

    Pretty sure I’m a hypocrite because I’ve just wasted a load of time writing a comment that will be a waste of my time.

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    • Graham says

      October 9, 2019 at 12:36 am

      Sorry for all the typos, sent pretty late.

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41. Peter says

    January 28, 2020 at 2:23 pm

    Hilarious, someone actually wastes their time maintaining these imaginary “statistics”.

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42. fred says

    January 31, 2020 at 3:57 pm

    And in Germany over one million in the car industry, over three car companies, made redundant . Two can play this game

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    • paul jacob says

      February 4, 2020 at 12:43 pm

      typical Leaver wants to offset the hurt that the UK feels due to brexit but instead rekindle the war ..thick as pig shyte brexiteer

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43. P J Carroll says

    February 1, 2020 at 9:49 pm

    Langdon Systems LTD (Wigan) should be on the list. Went bankrupt because they invested all they had in Brexit preparations and when Brexit was delayed they went out of money. 42 people lost their jobs.

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44. Anon says

    February 9, 2020 at 4:06 pm

    How on earth are 10,000 TESLA jobs lost because of Brexit? Like … huh?

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    • Anon2 says

      October 16, 2020 at 8:42 pm

      Tesla stated Brexit was the reason for choosing Germany over the UK for their European Gigafactory.

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45. Dave Neave says

    February 12, 2020 at 6:42 pm

    You list Unilever making 50 Brexit redundancies. I work for Unilever, they are in the middle of 400 UK redundancies (including me), but all are part of a program of offshoring to India which has been going on for ten years. I am vehemently anti Brexit, but I haven’t heard of any Brexit redundancies in Unilever, in fact I have seen jobs advertised to manage increased customs paperwork.

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    • Anon2 says

      October 16, 2020 at 8:52 pm

      They announced there would be approx. 50 redundancies when by closing their UK HQ, I believe they backed down on this and remain in the UK, so I presume those 50 jobs were not lost.

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46. boris says

    February 24, 2020 at 3:47 pm

    Jamies Italian??? hmmmm just ONE of the bullsh1t casualties of Brexit……….pull the other one you remoaning losers.

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47. Barny Shergold says

    February 25, 2020 at 12:37 am

    A very dubious analysis scaring everyone . The figures are far too precise, there is no margin of error stated, it assumes all those jobs were lost to Brexit and not other reasons, many companies are duplicated with no explanation, I know for a fact several of those companies have not had any actual job losses. There is also no balancing factor of jobs created in the same period – which makes the numbers about biased. I know of many companies that have expanded and taken on more people since 2016 and even companies that have come to U.K. to start up.

    There is also no comparison to a period before the start of the analysis – without this we can’t see what job losses were before the referendum and so can’t measure the number above (are losses higher or lower)

    This analysis has clearly been created by someone who has already decided what the results should show and is therefore, again, flawed.

    Show me a proper analysis with control data, comparison data and error rates and I’ll treat it with a bit more respect.

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    • Dave G says

      December 27, 2020 at 11:14 pm

      Very accurate and honest answer taking emotion out play

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48. Graham says

    August 6, 2020 at 7:29 am

    Why does Yorkshire appear in cities and towns and not in regions?

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    • Bobby billbins says

      July 1, 2021 at 5:15 pm

      Because it’s a shite site! 😅😅😅

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49. Adrian Smith says

    December 7, 2020 at 2:15 pm

    just wondering if you can update this?
    be interesting a year from then!
    cheers

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    • admin says

      December 9, 2020 at 10:40 am

      Unfortunately, not really possible because it’s too difficult to untangle the COVID impact from the Brexit one.

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50. Dave G says

    December 27, 2020 at 11:11 pm

    Seems many comments about the jobs situation in the UK is very ambiguous and can be fed from both sides, whatever analysis based on whatever figures anyone wishes to put forward no one has taken into account the affect that Covid has had on jobs and it was certainly a factor well before June. This appears to be forgotten in hindsight by all making claims of unemployment or employment figures, which on that basis is completely false as they do not reflect accurate data which shows jobs disappearing at an alarming rate in all countries. Another misnomer is the emotional factors and inaccuracies supplied by many companies that contradict one another, even the government do not know the actual stats as Covid has had such a devastating effect. Lastly no matter what country you are in there will be rapid decline in employment as Covid leaves a trail of destruction in industry and small business. So as for Brexit there is not an accurate figure one way or the other that can be relied on due to the impact of Covid since early in the year. Unemployment figures due to Brexit alone are pure speculation open to interpretation by anyone. Companies that were already heavily in debt would probably have gone anyway, losing jobs, that number is not quantifiable as are not any other figures, they are good guesses at best. Because of Covid unemployment or employment figures will not be of any consequence for mat leased a few years to come, also due to analysis of the virus and the infection rates of each country its highly likely the only data that can be predicted would be on balance the same percentage loss of jobs and business per the population of each country, the EU for instance lost 7.9% percent of total jobs till July 2020 France stood at nearly half a million as of the same time. The UK job loss at present is currently 4.9% percent but this will change, could be as high as 7.5%. So the argument as to Brexit affect on jobs in or out doesn’t exist as a provable argument for either side, just emotion with little substance……

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51. Terminator says

    February 8, 2021 at 4:02 pm

    I think the stats are hugely misleading. It is very hard to pinpoint accurately the joblosses due to Brexit. There are so many secondary factors at play, have you considered these? What if a company just fired people due to bad results and just blamed Brexit? What about labour laws in UK vs EU? Generally speaking, it is easier to fire people in the UK compared to other EU countries like Germany or France.
    I agree there is a Economic cost attached to Brexit – but as someone who has studied Stats at Uni – I am afraid your analysis is deeply flawed.

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52. Alex Foggaty says

    February 13, 2021 at 9:39 pm

    Amazon MAN3 in Bolton has cut 1192 jobs due to Brexit. I know this to be a fact because I work there and we were warned by the Operations Manager in December right before new year’s that cuts were going to be made, we just didn’t expect it to be ove 1000 employees. He also confirmed that other Fulfillment Centres that operated on EU deliveries would be making cuts too. MAN3 is one of the Fulfillment Centres that relied on work from the EU and now operates at 65%.

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53. Phil says

    March 16, 2021 at 1:53 pm

    This is total fantasy. Point 3 just says Covid can be deemed Impacted by Brexit just because Covid happened after the vote. Your wasting your time because you are just counting any and all job losses as a result of a flawed methodology

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54. Will Smith says

    June 10, 2021 at 2:43 pm

    The fools who say it’s rubbish but can’t refute the facts are, at this stage, SO stupid that they are happy for people to lose their jobs rather than admit the way THEY voted caused this suffering. IF brexit was going well, these armchair fools would be shouting it from the rooftops – they are not because it isn’t. “Project fear” is now project fact and these idiots can’t admit it. Pathetic.

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55. Patches says

    August 4, 2021 at 7:27 pm

    https://fullfact.org/economy/more-people-work-brexit-vote/

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