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An unpopular view in Westminster, but @eucopresident is right - and all good Brexiteers (as well as Remainers) should agree with him. Here's why... (1)
The Leave campaign took the conscious decision at the start of the #EUref campaign in 2016 to keep both their definition of Brexit and any plan to deliver it vague (2)
Why? So that they wouldn't fall into Alex Salmond's trap during the #indyref of getting killed on the detail. @matthew_elliott confirmed this at the time, and it was a masterful strategy that worked (3)
The downside is, as we all now know, Britain has spent the subsequent 2 and a half years tearing itself apart over exactly what the 17.4m who voted for Brexit want from it (4)
That, or a fair amount of it, could have been avoided if @BorisJohnson and others had argued on detail rather than sentiment, and we may well not be in this mess now (5)
Two caveats: 1. some more honourable leavers, who knew a bit more about the EU, did try to argue on detail (eg @DanielJHannan or @chhcalling) but they received little attention from voters/us the media at the time (6)
Caveat 2 - consigning them to hell is a tad strong. Two and half years in purgatory is a more fitting punishment. Here endeth the thread (7)
