| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Brexit imp ass | |
| Posted by: | Alan Clark | |
| Date/Time: | 14/09/21 08:49:00 |
| Out of the blue up pops this thread that covers that dismal period when the then PM, May, was flaying about trying to get her patchwork deal through. It was disturbing to re-read the concerns about this period and to reflect back on how they somehow encapsulated the Brexit vote: a vote out but not a vote for what sort of out. (Although we need to be very clear that most pro-Brexit voices at the time were promoting a "super-Norway / super-Canada" type arrangement.) Hence the mess of trying to reverse engineer the type of exit deal no-one dared define out loud during the referendum. And this resurrection of this thread is also timely as we now have Lord (cough) Frost shouting about the UK suspending the Northern Ireland protocol. Another example of the lack of definition of Brexit during the referendum is coming back to bite us. And timely as the full set of customs checks will come into existence in October - another surprise bunch of obstacles to the post-Brexit trade with the EU. I remember, in 2016, Johnson clearly promising a simple and better deal than being in the EU. A man of his word. |