Anyone who says "I didn't vote for a deal. I just voted to leave" is basically saying "I don't understand how international relations work because I believed Brexit wouldn't inevitably lead to a new treaty between the UK and the EU."
If we leave with the deal, loads of Brexit voters will be furious. If we leave with no-deal, loads of Brexit voters will be furious.
So why are we doing this?
This is what happens when you treat a 48% approval rating for the status quo as if it's a 52% approval rating for ANY alternative!
We're going to end up with well over 52% NOT getting what they wanted!
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Can you imagine if, during the years of Brexit renegotiations (2020-24), journalists had grilled the Tories on their manifesto promise to get Brexit done.... as much as they're now grilling Labour on whether they're "taxing working people"?
It shows they CAN do their jobs.
They just chose not to with the Tories.
Look at this.
It's very good journalism by @WilfredFrost, exposing that the Labour manifesto used the technicality of not directly taxing working people, but it still hits them.
"Get Brexit Done" was literally the title of the Tory manifesto and was NEVER challenged like this.
Boris Johnson started renegotiations SIX MONTHS after winning an election on a promise to end the Brexit negotiations.
So there's nothing subjective about the fact that the Tory government was elected on a lie.
Yet NOT ONE news station categorically communicated that fact.