Would love to drive less and work from home , but my shit FTTN NBN is literally 15 % better than my shitty ADSL connection was . <| sep |> The poor state of the UK economy isn ' t just because of Brexit but also because of a commitment to the false ideals of austerity , liberalisation of the markets and government deregulation . Brexit obviously has the potential to be an economic catastrophe in both general terms and those parameters of the current economic consensus but it ' s also a convenient scapegoat for those people like Peston who have generally been in favour of the status quo of postfordist capitalism to say the cause of any UK economic ills is Brexit and not anything to do with the fundamental mechanics of this current economic system we operate in .