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Old 24-08-2020, 17:52   #3504
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Re: Brexit-Transitional Period Ends 31/12/20
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Originally Posted by 1andrew1 View Post
Brexiters don't have homogenous views.

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A nice thought but a fantasy - I acknowledge we're leaving but I also acknowledge our incompetence on managing Covid 19 and the need for more negotiating time. It's not too early to talk about the app fiasco, the care homes fiasco, the exams results fiasco...I could go on but to save your blushes I shan't.
Fishing rights aren't key and can be sorted with a phased withdrawal of rights and cash. A level playing field is the prize for the EU.
Except I'm not blushing, nor in any danger of it. There have certainly been some blunders and inefficiences around PPE, the app, the care homes and exam results. However, the bungling was by public servants - and the politicians clearly misplaced their faith in taking them at their word when it came to what would work. NHS procurement officers failed to stock enough PPE (they were not alone in the world) it was Simon Stevens who directed the hospitals to clear out patients from care homes back to their normal establishments, where they passed the virus to other residents, and it was Ofqual who came up with the dodgy algorythm.

I think it probably was the government that slipped up with their optimism on having our own app, although they were persuaded by their officers that their app was better than all the others. And some people wonder why Boris wants to shake up the Civil Service and the quangoes!

But all this is just deflection on your part, Andrew. This thread is about Brexit, not Covid, and the constant mantra that we should extend the duration of these negotiations is negative, tiresome and in the end, pointless.

Have you not clocked yet that the British public want all this to be over? Extending negotiations will just defer the inevitable, whatever that is - deal or no deal.

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Originally Posted by 1andrew1 View Post
Is it worse than a no-deal? No. Is it worse than membership? Yes.
That's not what the British electorate believes. Of course it's worse than no deal.

The British public wants us out of the EU, with or without a deal. I thought that was clear, even to you. My bad
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