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Originally Posted by jfman
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.
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I’d venture to suggest that an outright majority in favour of anything can only come about via a coalition of one kind or another. Members of political parties have their own priorities and are routinely placed by commentators at the left, centre or right of their party’s politics.
Back in 2014 the only Yes campaigner to actually doorstep me was solely interested in getting Faslane closed. Nothing else mattered. But that again was a referendum in which nobody is in a position to promise anything beyond the narrow implementation of the result. At least in broad-church, two-party politics the whole party stands on the manifesto and can be judged against it, whatever the personal priorities of its individual members.