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The following are three COMPLETELY DIFFERENT THINGS:

1️⃣ Knowing what you VOTED for.
2️⃣ Knowing what you HOPED for.
3️⃣ Knowing that what you voted for would deliver what you HOPED for.
What Leavers VOTED for was to leave the EU.
What most of them HOPED for was more sovereignty and prosperity in the UK.
But we've just spent 3 years discovering that it's possible to leave the EU and end up less sovereign (deal) and to end up poorer by damaging trade (No-Deal).
Put it this way...
Other than having officially left the EU, What element of our new relationship with the EU was it even POSSIBLE to know with any certainty at all, when people voted in 2016?
Tariffs? No.
Security cooperation? No.
Fishing agreements? No.
Visa rights? No.
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If you called it "project fear" when people said Brexit would damage trade with the EU (almost all vocal Brexit voters) but you now claim that a No-Deal Brexit (which forces the EU to put tariffs on UK goods) is within the scope of what you intentionally voted for, YOU'RE A LIAR.
The logic of that is flawless:
You said you weren't voting for a Brexit that would compromise EU-UK free trade and now you say you were. That makes you a liar. It's too late in the game to sugar-coat that.
That's why it's insulting TO BREXIT VOTERS to say No-Deal is the will of the people, despite most Brexit voters (83% to be exact) saying they were voting for a Brexit that included free trade.

They're calling the majority of 17.4 million brits liars.
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The people who say the EU would be CHOOSING to punish us if they put tariffs on UK goods, are the same people who say that we should leave on WTO rules (which legally force the EU to put its tariffs on UK products if there's no actual deal).
Remember this argument? "Do you really think they'd be stupid enough to put up tariffs, when they know how much they sell us".
Well most cars manufactured & fish caught in the UK are sold to the EU, so apparently we're "stupid enough" to force the EU to put tariffs on all of it.
For specifics, here you go. You've all heard about how the EU puts tariffs on goods coming from outside the EU, well the WTO, specifically GATT article 1, says the EU has to apply the same tariffs to us that that it applies to everyone else, if we don't have a deal.
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