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Originally Posted by TheDaddy

As I see it those businesses will close, the public won't support higher prices to pay these wages when there's a cheaper foreign option, £30 an hour for picking broccoli and we still won't do it and I disagree with you and David "thick as mince" Davis about what industry would and wouldn't have known, I remember them begging for advice and being left to fend for themselves

They would have been begging for advice from the wrong people! "Industry" new exactly what would be what when we became a third country. What did they really need from the Guvmin? They got the imports checks extension - they were never going to get any export favours from the EU. "Industry" were Remainers.

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Originally Posted by Hugh

But Industry was told by the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union / Chief Negotiator for Exiting the European Union, David Davis that "There will be no downside to Brexit, only a considerable upside".

Are you saying Industry should have planned for things they were told weren’t going to happen?

You're being contrary for the sake of it. There were two or three more SoS for Brexit and "industry" at least knew we'd not be in any Customs Union or part of the EU's Internal Market.

Take the piss out of David Davis as much as you like - I support that - but don't use him as an excuse for "industry's" sleepwalk.

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Originally Posted by 1andrew1

You'll have to try a bit harder. But the point you're trying to make is void as Johnson had an 80-seat majority.

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The issue was it didn't know as the deal was only signed on Christmas Eve!

"Industry" did know because of all the drafts that had been published. "Industry" have been a bigger failure than government.

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Originally Posted by Hugh

So if a Labour Government gets into power (I know, I know, very unlikely, but for the sake of discussion), how would you describe those who spoke out against any policies they implemented, as those policies would have been due to the democratic decision of the British people?

Would they be "traitors"?

You do come up with ridiculous questions with a sarcastic tinge.