Brexitology

It would be very dificult for Grzegorz W. Kolodko to be anything other than totally against the UK's decision to exit EU given that this is the man who engineered Poland's Entry. He is also credited for increasing Poland's GDP 3 fold during his tenure as finance minister. What needs to be remebered is that as a former Communist state the GDP numbers were incredibly low when he started so the increase through trade was inevitable whoever took that post..

Your Point?
Correctly observed that Kolodko views are biased by his previous position
Correctly observed that historic communist state GDP numbers are unreliable.
So having made these reasonable qualifications ..
What ARE you saying about the substance of the story?

I think you just eloquently made my point for me. many thanks

Extract for those without the time to read the full article..
"The most important thing is to understand why the majority voted against what the economic good sense would tell them. This is a question to sociology-minded Brexitologists rather than to economists. Many of the 51.9 per cent in favour of Brexit simply did not realise what they were opting for. And an error of a historic magnitude was committed. The scale of demagogy and stupefying propaganda spread by various politicians and media was so vast that millions of people got tricked into behaving irrationally. Indeed, a rational person is one acting for one’s own benefit, considering the available information. And the information was sometimes manipulated or even falsified. After all, we cannot assume that English and Welsh people, unlike Scots and Northern Irish people, the majority of whom voted remain, made an informed vote to their own detriment. They did not know what they were doing and with time they will be sorry. Some of them already are."

Its not a point.
Its a qualification.
Youve added nothing to the analysis except a qualification

It's not so complicated really.

Psychology, Economics and Politics are all Social Sciences. And the word SCIENCE is used inappropriately by all 3 schools - there's nothing scientific about them.

Just as Freud was cocaine addled and addicted when he formed his outrageous assumptions of human hysterics and sexuality; so are Economists and Politicians EQUALLY cocaine addled and hysterical in their views too.

Brexit simply happened because democracy is a JOKE. There is NO WAY there can be a rational decision achieved with democracy when a full 50% of the populations is of below average intelligence.

And the stupidity of the population is the Achilles heal of democracy ever being useful as a system of human control.

Irrationally I voted Brexit, not for me but my kids and kids, kids.
I agree with his very loose view that globelisation is a goal worth trying for.
I also agree that the EU is fundamentally flawed in too many area's for the reforms necessary to be implemented without starting from scratch or without complete political, fiscal and legal control.
I chose starting from scratch, well aware of how a Brexit would impact on the UK for many years and probable implications to EU stability and global finances.

If you read the whole article and believe it, you may conclude my irrationality was validated.