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Update on Brexit

 It's funny.  I wrote a factual account of our personal actions following the Brexit vote and I got massive pushback as if my wife and I were responsible for the mess because we took advantage of the situation.  I don't really understand their point of view.  

In a market economy (which is still the case in the UK), allocating resources (e.g. our money) to a sector of the economy that will stand at an advantage from a politically popular position is a reasonable and economically efficient use of our limited resources.

In fact, our actions supported the British economy.  We priced our goods reasonably and we would make a reasonable economic return if the government had taken reasonable actions to prevent dislocation.  It is really not our fault (and we didn't vote Tory in the last two elections) if they did everything they could to screw up the process (and Europe watched in horror).

We were projecting a specific economic return, but because of the crass incompetence of the British government, we accelerated our growth in the vegetable sector (there was not much we could accelerate with the fruits), at the request of our wholesalers.  For us the impact was dramatic, or return on investment grew from 10% to 40%, because we borrowed about 80% of the cost of building our greenhouses (we repaid early for unrelated reasons), but it remains that we had made a sound economic investment but saw massive economic profit because of the massive shortage caused by idiotic government action (that's not on us).  

We were good economic participants because, in our small way, we replaced some of the missing European food supplies.  That makes us the good guys! 

Note:  Comments are turned off (I think on this one) I got almost 300 negative comments on the last on!


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