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Originally Posted by jfman
The decision to leave the EU isn't grounded in any economic reality.
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Economics was but one factor.
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It isn't a massive leap to decide that the same electorate who chose this, and the MPs guiding it, may decide to just leave without any kind of trade deal in a belief we can go back to the days of Rule Britannia.
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I’m not sure that WTO was around during Rule Britannia, but that where we would go.
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How does the "Establishment" loses it's authority? The who idea of an "Establishment" is that they influence both sides of a debate and both main political parties. Who replaces them under a FPTP electoral system?
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The Westminster centric metro MPs that believe country consists of the Home Counties.
The country being ignored by these gave rise to the BNP, this evolved into support for UKIP. Support for UKIP forced the issue of the referendum......and here we are.
The referendum was supposed to halt the rise of this parties, and beacon the last election it did. But that before the establishment yet again told the North, that they were stupid..........