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Old 10-10-2018, 10:33   #1720
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Re: Brexit
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Originally Posted by Angua View Post
It does seem to be the hard leavers who have a literal view of what the leave vote meant and assume that everyone who voted leave took it as simplistically as they do. The reality is different, why else are those who voted remain still complaining? Why else are the government struggling to find a way out which keeps most of the population happy? Why else are there specific issues with NI border that need resolving in order to comply with the GFA? Why else are negotiations taking place at all? Why else does A50 have a 2 year negotiation period?

People voted to leave for all sorts of reasons, many of which have turned out to be totally illogical, or not even for something the EU are responsible for in the first place.

Yet it seems only the minority hard leave group are allowed an opinion, they certainly manage to complain enough about the remain voters.
The majority voted to leave, plain and simple. Do you actually know a single leaver who wants to remain in the Customs Union? People were sold free trade deals, getting back sovereignty, no longer being subject to the ECJ and no more free movement. The remainers complain that, for example, nobody was asked about the customs union. That is true, but given the acceptance of arguments about forging new trade deals, how would a customs union actually permit that?

You are deliberately attempting, with all the others who voted to remain, to muddy the waters and introduce irrelevant arguments that you may feel are issues or ways of getting a u-turn. However, the vast majority of remainers are not at all concerned about those arguments. They voted to leave the EU. Leavers do not misunderstand what 'leave' actually means.
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