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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
Negotiations with the EU will always happen though at some stage people will stop calling it Brexit.
The last bit of added Brexit bureaucracy seems to be on 1 November so perhaps after that, the term will reduce in use? [Graphic: FT.com]
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I’m not really worried about the terminology. It just strikes me as somewhat odd (and perhaps dangerous) to have a seemingly ethereal concept hanging over the Prime Minister, his successor and presumably subsequent holders of the post. What do these 48% (plus presumably a subset of the 43% who don’t think the PM has delivered but trust him to do so) of people want/need to see?
I’m not convinced the added paperwork of export health certificates is the answer. OB has alluded to a transitionary period - something I don’t consider unreasonable in and of itself - but what event heralds the end of the transition and acceptance that this is no longer a transition it is indeed the post-Brexit present? Or in the absence of a definition does it become a get out of free card for this and subsequent Governments that the big bad European bogeyman won’t let us deliver.