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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
I think most Brexiteers just wanted to leave on WTO terms.
The idea of having an agreement to secure tariff free, frictionless trade with the EU was a good one, but this was more complicated than a simple 'Brexit', but unfortunately it looks like it was doomed to failure from the start.
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I think you are now being revisionist based on where it looks like we will now end up. People voted Leave with a variety of outcomes in mind. Some would welcome Mrs May's 'soft-ish" Brexit although it almost certainly will be made "softer" once it undergoes the to's & fro's of EU negotiations.
The hard Brexit you now seek was never put before the voters by the official Leave campaign:
http://www.voteleavetakecontrol.org/campaign.html
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We should negotiate a new UK-EU deal based on free trade and friendly cooperation
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It is disingenuous to now claim that Leavers, en-masse, wanted a hard Brexit under WTO rules with all the economic damage that would deliver.
A lot of Leavers did not vote to be poorer and they were promised they would not be.