MARK CARNEY and Christine Lagarde have been slated for their parts in the Remain campaign’s "scaremongering".
The Governor of the Bank of England and the head of the IMF were vociferous in their warnings and doom-mongering in the lead-up to the EU referendum.
On Tuesday the IMF issued an update on the global economy, cutting Britain’s growth forecast for this year by 0.2 per cent.
LBC caller Tommy, from west London, hit out at the economic chiefs.
Speaking to Ian Collins he said: “Every time Mark Carney opens his mouth the pound seems to dip.
“He and Christine Lagarde… pretty much predicted financial armageddon. We are doing far better than the Germans and the French.
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“We are not going to fall in recession. We are not going to go into nuclear economic meltdown, all this demise has been exaggerated.
“If you look at the FTSE the pound is not doing that bad.”
Presenter Ian Collins agreed with Tommy that the suggestion economies cannot function outside the EU was nonsense.
“There are a lot of countries around the world who are not in the EU who function rather well,” Collins said.
“The idea that it can’t happen is clearly scaremongering from the Remain campaign.”
On Tuesday the IMF’s chief economist Maury Obstfeld said: “Naturally, the direct effects specifically due to Brexit are greatest in Europe, especially the United Kingdom.
"Our projections for other areas are little changed by Brexit.
"Despite an uneven distribution across regions of the world, the overall growth downgrade in our baseline global projection is moderate, reflecting among other things a relatively benign assessment of Brexit's negative impact."
In response Ukip MP Douglas Carswell said: "The IMF has serious credibility problems. It has been seriously wrong for years.
"I hope that one of the things that the new Government does is push to have some credible people running this institution rather than the clowns currently running it."
