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Mr Davis may be feeling the same.
He didn't get where he is today by doing that.he needs to cross the road turn around and take a look at himself.....
Whilst not being a Brexiteer (I voted Remain, and was always going to), I'm now firmly in the "OK - Let's do it" camp. So no going back, no second referendum, we've made our bed ..... etc etc. I've a few Twitter friends in Europe (German and Dutch ladies) and both seem quite affronted that, despite all their bending-over-backwards e.g. Maggie's rebate, we should reject their little club. And I suspect their political leaders think similarly. When Cameron went there in February 2016 asking for something more he could have to sell to us Brits before the referendum, they told him to f-off, and I suspect they'd be just as generous were we to go along and say "Please Mr Juncker. We've made an awful mistake, and we should never have doubted you. Please can we stay."Where have our Brexiteers gone?
What about all of you out there? Not 'Brexiteers' per se, but voted 'Leave' because...
Because..?
Because of the wonderful things it does?
Where are you all?
* speaks loudly as if speaking to Spanish waiter*
WHAT IS IT YOU ACTUALLY WANT?
ARE YOU GETTING WHAT YOU WANTED?
ARE YOU SATISFIED WITH HOW THINGS ARE PROGRESSING?
* wonders if they can actually hear me but are choosing not to*
They did have quite a bit of difficulty controlling that one when they had half the Army there and spiked most of the roads.Current estimate is we control every border as tight as possible apart from the NI one where people walk across at will?
They did have quite a bit of difficulty controlling that one when they had half the Army there and spiked most of the roads. ...
Hannah Gordon and John Alderton to beef up David Davis's negotiating team...Leave And Remain, is probably a more accurate description......
All the drawbacks of remaining combined with all the drawbacks of leaving.Leave And Remain, is probably a more accurate description......
Don't count your chickens...I dunno. All businesses that want to remain just get a NI warehouse, you are now in the EU and the UK at the same time, sorted!
I am too. but for slightly different reasonsWhilst not being a Brexiteer (I voted Remain, and was always going to), I'm now firmly in the "OK - Let's do it" camp.
No, but you couldn't, not being one of them ...ETA Sorry I've not answered your question.
One of the things that exercises me is that within even a 5 year time-frame, the demographics suggest a disengagement from the very process of disengaging - how will that be managed within the context of a politically engaged, and potentially 'noisome', newly enfranchised cohort?I suspect in, say, 10 or 15 years time, the 3 main deliverables will have been delivered - the ability to control our own laws, our own borders and our own finances.
If we again look at this from the perspective of the as-yet-to-be enfranchised voting public, bearing in mind that this is a cohort that has been educated in to the belief in the EU project, 'with mother's milk' sort of thing, the key words that worked for an entirely different tranche of voters becomes almost entirely obsolete.The key word is control; we may still be paying £2bn each year for Farage's pension, but it will have been our choice.
The entire absurdity of the situation is summed up exactly there -We were in the EU etc for 40 years, and Brexit should be seen as a long term project. Sure it's going to rough the first 5 years, and the 5 or 10 after that are going to be difficult ..... but after that? Who knows?
I am too. but for slightly different reasons.
I vision of Eutopia, no doubt.I was against it from the outset but if we are going to do it then we need to go full Singapore. The first phase would be to eliminate the welfare state and privatise the NHS. Phase 2 would be to scrap the minimum wage, living wage and employment rights such as the sick pay. Given these conditions a few will prosper and the national GDP may well be significantly higher, the GDP per head which is more meaningful measure of who benefits would through the floor, but who cares.