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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
The issue is - we chose the preferred option, and others tried to prevent it from happening. That is plainly undemocratic, no matter how you want to spin it.
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You need to be specific Old Boy in how people tried to prevent it happening.
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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
We're talking about human behaviour here. There's bitterness (not residual) only to the extent that some Remainers are in regular "I told you so" mode.
All that matters is that we have left the EU as a result of the Referendum and we now have to build back to a comfortable point. Covid didn't help - but it did underline why 52% voted Leave - namely the arrogance of the bullying EU.
It's also a great pity that certain politicians, including DD, painted an unrealistic picture of day 1 heaven in trade deal terms. How come those fools didn't take into account what the people knew when they voted 52% for BREXIT? This political stupidity feeds certain Remainers here with almost perpetual fodder.
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It's the government who are in "I told you so" mode to British business when in fact they didn't and now seek to pretend that they warned the country early on of these problems.
Brexit is alas a leaky tyre, not the sunny uplands that John Redwood, David Davis and others pretended it was. But we need an industrial strategy to try and make the best of a very bad job. Unfortunately, apart from some nice Soviet-style slogans "Build back better" "Levelling up", I'm not seeing any robust plans.
For example, all the recent new film studios are great news. But they're in places like Reading, Elstree and Broxbourne. Great for those living around the M25 but not-so-great for levelling up the more deprived parts of the UK.