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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
I don't know what trap you are setting so, in better than Ian style, I'll swerve that be saying my point is clearly inferrable as to which agreement I meant.
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Why are you making it so personal? The facts are the facts. You can disprove the points I have made and I welcome your attempts.
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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
"Not sure about that" is an under statement. We couldn't have walked away with no deal as it would have breached the Northern Ireland Protocol.
The deal we negotiated was a hard Brexit that did not represent the country's feeling. It's not just about the spectrum of views of the 52% it's about the 100%. Norway had a similar outcome so decided not to join the EU but went for the very close relationship instead. I'm not saying we should have copied Norway but finding something that was more representative of the desire of the UK population as a whole and not of the more extreme right wing of the Conservative Party would have been beneficial. As it is, we'll move that way over time but at a higher economic cost than being there in the first place.
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Remember that the 'country" had no definitive feelings. There was a spectrum, ranging from ignorance to outright nationalist dogma, and everything in between.
The revisionists would have you believe there was a consensus for a hard Brexit but there was not. There was a consensus for nothing. "Leave the EU" was a smorgasbord of political options, a pick & mix if you will. What was definitive was the prediction of economic suicide which played out as predicted. Imposing economic sanctions on yourself is not a good option given the proximity of your major trading partner and the intricacies of global trade.