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One of the great ­catastrophes of politics is that working people will pay the heaviest price for Brexit after being conned by lying charlatan Boris ­Johnson and snake oil salesman Nigel Farage.

The right-wing pair are banking fortunes from the national crisis they’ve created.

Tory ­narcissist Johnson pecks £275,000 “chicken feed” alone for increasingly deranged ramblings in the Daily Telegraph.

While “skint” UKIP deceiver Farage collects upwards of £200,000 on top of his MEP cash.

The Brexit bill is left for Britain’s working class, grafters in areas such as Sunderland and South Wales.

They are kept behind not by Europe or migration, but the merciless free market economics championed by Johnson and Farage.

Alarm bells are sounding when the authoritative Institute for Fiscal Studies declares the incomes and jobs of men with fewer qualifications in manual jobs, a group who tipped the referendum narrowly in favour of the Quitter elite, are most at risk if trade is disrupted with the EU.

The grim assessment is the reality of the verdict two years ago from Patrick Minford, one of the few economists to back Brexit, that leaving Europe would “mostly eliminate manufacturing” in this country.

Loaded Johnson and Farage won’t give them a backward glance, of course, the conmen perhaps suppressing chuckles over a self-enriching poll heist engineered by campaigns built on lies.

Brexit already costs £500million a week after uncertainty slashed economic growth by 2.5%, according to the Centre for European Reform thinktank.

Lower incomes and higher prices are painful evidence the Leavers’ Project Fib – the NHS £350million a week was a giant porkie – beat what was dubbed Project Fear for dishonesty.

No Brexit El Dorado exists and the dodgy deal Theresa May is desperately trying to cobble together with Donald Tusk and Jean-Claude Juncker might be better than crashing out with no deal but is still far worse than the deal, warts and all, Britain enjoys now.

I’d take the word of trade unions and car company chiefs any day over the blind ideological obsessive extremism of Brextremists.

Not leaving Europe remains the better option – except the bank accounts of Johnson and Farage.