Several aspects of this sorry mess leave me perplexed. "The people have spoken" is one mantra. Well they did in June 2016, so are we saying voting decisions should be preserved in aspic forever? If so, can I ask for the 1945 General Election vote to be the one selected? It's total nonsense.
"Delivering the Brexit people want" is a favourite. I know a few Leavers. They range from hard line Tories to members of Momentum. They have bugger all in common if I ask them what they want from Brexit.
"The economic forecasts are all wrong." OK, I'm the first to accept the old adage that if you line up all the economists in the world they'll never reach a conclusion, but hang on. Surely the first question to be asked in any critical analysis is "Who is saying this?" Obviously a group demanding "The People's Vote" in the hope of staying in are going to present a bleak picture of Brexit. However, there are too many voices from across the piste to dismiss these concerns so readily. It appears to me that the Brexiteers are so anxious not to see their prize snatched from them that they refuse to be deflected by tiny details like economic armegeddon. They've got to the top of the slide, and even though they've been warned that they could lose limbs if they descend they are still saying "It'll be fine, chaps."
And don't even start me on "taking back control". I was a fervent Remainer, but like others I have accepted that the vote went against me. I have waited in vain for any one from the Leave campaign to tell me what the advantages will be of leaving the EU. I can only seem to read vacuous nonsense - "it will release our entrepreneurs from their shackles" is a good example. I have an old friend who built a highly innovative business that has global sales, so I asked him about his shackles. He reported none.
I'm too old to worry about what might happen. Frankly I am almost past caring. But let me end with one conversation with an Italian couple this summer. They told me that the party in Italy that wants Italy out of the EU are changing their minds watching the utter chaos in the UK.
UK - stock and laughing spring to mind!
"Delivering the Brexit people want" is a favourite. I know a few Leavers. They range from hard line Tories to members of Momentum. They have bugger all in common if I ask them what they want from Brexit.
"The economic forecasts are all wrong." OK, I'm the first to accept the old adage that if you line up all the economists in the world they'll never reach a conclusion, but hang on. Surely the first question to be asked in any critical analysis is "Who is saying this?" Obviously a group demanding "The People's Vote" in the hope of staying in are going to present a bleak picture of Brexit. However, there are too many voices from across the piste to dismiss these concerns so readily. It appears to me that the Brexiteers are so anxious not to see their prize snatched from them that they refuse to be deflected by tiny details like economic armegeddon. They've got to the top of the slide, and even though they've been warned that they could lose limbs if they descend they are still saying "It'll be fine, chaps."
And don't even start me on "taking back control". I was a fervent Remainer, but like others I have accepted that the vote went against me. I have waited in vain for any one from the Leave campaign to tell me what the advantages will be of leaving the EU. I can only seem to read vacuous nonsense - "it will release our entrepreneurs from their shackles" is a good example. I have an old friend who built a highly innovative business that has global sales, so I asked him about his shackles. He reported none.
I'm too old to worry about what might happen. Frankly I am almost past caring. But let me end with one conversation with an Italian couple this summer. They told me that the party in Italy that wants Italy out of the EU are changing their minds watching the utter chaos in the UK.
UK - stock and laughing spring to mind!
I suspect he meant worst British government. It’s certainly the most useless since WWII
