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Originally Posted by Chris
... which is precisely the line the continuity remain campaign has been pushing for the last 2 years. It all began with the appearance in the media of the terms “hard” and “soft” Brexit.
The idea that nobody really knows what Brexit means is nonsense. During the referendum campaign, the remain campaign was as clear about what Brexit would mean as the leave campaign was. At the time, Remain thought that the unalloyed truth - out of the single market, out of the customs union all the rest - would scare people into voting their way. It didn’t work. As a result they switched to plan B, which has always been to muddy the waters enough that people either wouldn’t notice us failing to properly leave the EU, or else would come to believe that fully leaving the EU (aka Brexit, or, indeed, what the majority voted for) would indeed be a tragedy and a so-called “soft” Brexit (not really leaving at all) was preferable.
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Leaving the EU is one thing but what replaces it is another. The Leave campaign never had a direct answer for this and now the Government has to come up with one. Those on the Leave campaign have been happy to attack May for every single possible concessions she even considered making when trying to come up with a plan they never had. Johnson criticising May for not being able to deliver the assurances of Leave. It isn't only continuity Remain that have moved the goalposts here.