Economy improvements

The pound has fallen in value since the referendum, and growth is now the worst in the EU.

Result: Bad

This is the value of the pound over the past 2 years (source):

Value of the Pound vs the Euro since the 23rd June

And this is the GPD growth for each country in the first half of 2017 (source):

EU GDP Growth (1st Half 2017) UK 0.51 Italy 0.84 France 0.89 Belgium 0.99 Denmark 1.12 Portugal 1.21 Austria 1.41 Slovakia 1.63 Spain 1.71 Lithuania 1.91 Sweden 2.14 Netherlands 2.18 Poland 2.21 Hungary 2.31 Latvia 2.89 Czech Republic 3.87 EU (exc. UK) 1.41

We're not doing well so far.

It's possibly due to the amount of uncertainty this process is creating.

This might be why companies aren't exactly investing in the UK


Remember to check the Y axis (the one that goes up the side), in this case the currency graphs do not start at 0, because we want to focus on the changes.

And when something is plotted over time, always check the date range. It might have be chosen to hide certain information that would undermine the point the author is trying to make. In this case I selected 2 years, so we had 1 year before and 1 year after the referendum result. The smaller graph shows the currency fluctuation over the last 10 years.

If you disagree, or would like to add more details, please let me know.

You can suggest a reason for leaving the EU, or look at the other reasons.