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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 perpetual fodder because, unfortunately, it demonstrates that many people had many different ideas of what leaving would entail and consistently put forward an unrealistic picture of “we hold all the cards”, “German car manufacturers will come to our rescue”. Neither credible positions to hold given the relative sizes of each market.
Now all we have, from some at least, is persistent defection. OB is keen to rehash the debates of 2016-19 all over again. However that doesn’t move us forward. Those people are all gone, the Government had a clear mandate, and has a clear majority. Where’s the plan to transition to this high wage, high skilled economy? It’s a bold move for Boris to talk of decades of a flawed economic model when the Tories have governed for the vast majority of the time it has been implemented.