There’s still too much attention upon the “political” aspect of “leaving the EU” rather than the financial aspect.
We’ve “Left” when we’ve stopped paying the £■■■,000,000 per week - not before.
All the other stuff - falls into place rather quickly, once the EU no longer gain from “further time-wasting”.
It would actually take them quite a while to shut down Britain’s current access to the single market, and it would take even Boris’ new Right Wing Home Secretary - to shut down immigration, and implement the “points based Australian system” she speaks of.
Longest of all to bring about - is any physical barrier between Northern Ireland/Eire or that dumbass bridge between NI and Scotland come to that…
NONE of that stuff can even START to happen though - all the while the EU get whatever it is we pay them per week for it NOT to happen.
…If only we could have some politicians that didn’t get elected promising to serve their country, constituents, et all - but instead work directly for a foreign power, to their ends, not ours - not even the most Tory-hating hard-left character, that Corbyn might just about still have a handle on at this late stage.
I’m surprised that Labour have not approached the EU offering “we’ll stay in the single market, but you can kiss goodbye to the £39billion and Backstop” - bearing in mind that Boris Johnson has been rather QUIET on the intended fate for these “deadlocked” issues…
I guess they MUST be against it, even if Brexiteers have already discovered a cure for cancer, but need to be out of the EU to mass produce it… They’re being paid as “foreign agents” to prevent Brexit unto death, after all…
I continue to be gobsmacked at how the 1% Elites have managed to keep the 47% ordinary folk who got fooled into voting Remain for all this time…
There’s been very little reason - even from Farage’s Camp - as to WHY Remainers should be “changing their minds” eh?
Remainers - still believe we - THEY - would be worse off after Brexit. They cannot see past that, because no one on either side of the argument - has pointed out that Brexit’s Bark is worse than it’s bite.
Perhaps the shambles of the Universal Credit debacle - shows us why the “Tory” version of Brexit - isn’t trusted.
It should have been EASY to re-direct the money no longer sent to the EU STRAIGHT to those UK institutions that get regular infusions of the Rebate money, such as our education establishment…
A lot of US - manage quite OK on a “Hand-to-mouth” existance - I know I do!
How come the Tories cannot manage the simple re-allocation of the SAME funds that leaves quite a bit over - once all those currently-benefitting UK institutions get fully funded, but now from the fully-repatriated Brexit Dividend, however much over and above the original “rebate” that happens to be.
Even Sajid Javid seems to be talking of “how easy it will be to borrow all the money he wants” - when it would have been far easier to pledge the Brexit Dividend to that cause, surely?
No one is going to vote in the Tories based on a “pie-in-the-sky” obvious election pledge like we’ve heard these past few days…
If Brexit happens - we’ll be voting Tory. If it doesn’t happen - we’ll be voting Farage.
The Libdems, Labour, SNP, and other minor parties - can share the 48% Remainer vote between them, and perhaps end up where Farage’s UKIP went as a result of “splitting the vote too many ways” about the country…
I can’t see Swinson standing aside in Labour Hold seats where they are narrowly second to the Conservatives in third…
Corbyn meanwhile - just doesn’t stand aside - full stop! There again, he wants Brexit to be completed to provide HIM with the biggest magic money tree in our lifetimes - but wants someone else NOT him to carry the can for the downsides of Brexit, which only last the length of time it takes to re-allocate the money… If he had brains and balls - he would have come up for a plan to steal Brexit away from the Tories outright, and actually deliver the compromise that WOULD “Unite the Country”…
That is, “No £39billion, No Backstop, Stay in the single market, but without paying a fee.” The EU DOES get something out of that: It continues to make profits out of Britain, which Britain has for a long time been losing money on… With Britain free to make new trade deals with the wider world, eventually the EU would be using Britain as “Free access” to THOSE markets. A short term hardship for the EU then - but ultimately in the long term - a trading relationship based on FREE trade rather than “Membership with a fee” that benefits all those who are within it, and quells the rising tide of Anti-Establishment (rather than “Anti-Left”) sentiment about the world that we see unfolding before us all…