What was said: George Osborne, the then Chancellor, said in a BBC Radio 4 interview that leaving the European Union would cause "financial instability" and leave "no economic plan," which would need an immediate response from the government. "There would have to be increases in tax and cuts in public spending to fill the black hole," he said.

What happened: Osborne was sacked by Theresa May when she became prime minister on July 13, less than a month after the referendum. Shortly after his appointment the same day, his successor Philip Hammond announced there were no plans for an emergency budget. In the meantime, the Bank of England warned of "challenging" risks to financial stability following the Brexit vote and made £150 billion in lending available for businesses and households to help mitigate the shock of the surprise vote.

The U.K. economy is still growing, albeit at a slower rate than pre-referendum and at around half the speed of the eurozone. The latest Office for National Statistics figures suggest Britain's economy grew 1.5 percent in the three months ending in June from the same period in 2016. The latest U.K. unemployment figures from the ONS show the proportion of people out of work is at its lowest since 1975 (4.3 percent). But a year on from the vote, the pound had lost 15 percent of its value against the dollar, pushing up inflation.

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What was said: Former Health Minister Stephen Dorrell warned: “We need a strong economy to guarantee the growth in funding that the health and care service requires and evidence suggests leaving the EU would undermine this.”

What happened: In his March budget, the chancellor announced the social care system would have another £2 billion pumped into it over the next three years and an extra £100 million would be made available for new triage programs at English hospitals this winter. He also set aside an extra £325 million to allow the first NHS Sustainability and Transformation Plans to proceed.

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What was said: David Cameron warned: "Can we be so sure that peace and stability on our Continent are assured beyond any shadow of doubt? Is that a risk worth taking? I would never be so rash as to make that assumption."

What happened: There are no current wars between EU countries.

Now with such serious threats being tarnished a new psychology of phobia instead of reasonable fear is being posited in recent campaigns based upon smaller and pettier complaints about the British's decision to not continue supporting a corrupt system, such as the continued belief that it alone is responsible for populism in Europe or worse...that the EU and Europe are inseperable and thusly an attack on one is an attack on the other. All of this is a reactionism the likes of which haven't been seen since the WW2 generation reacted to the rise of the 60s and 70s generation.
Now it is the very concept of seeking self determination and the once precious splendid isolation that made us so unique as a culture. This is a toxic and elitist rhetoric to me that seems to echo the old classist bigotry of the Victorian era with some audaciously demanding only those earning over £50,000 should get to vote which is contributing to a growing wokeness that the middle classes of Britain still loath the working classes (who mostly backed Brexit).