Thread by @uk_domain_names

I asked people earlier today what was their hardest Brexit myth to dispel. Here's a roundup of the answers. We've all faced variants of these at one time or another!
- If we leave with a deal, Brexit is over and done with
- It will return our sovereignty (that we never lost)

- GATT Article 24 (or Article XXIV) allows us to carry on trading as normal if we exit on WTO terms
- Remain MPs have blocked Brexit
- Immigration is bad for the UK
- Immigration caused the housing crisis
- Immigrants are taking our benefits and our jobs (inherent contradiction)

- Millions of immigrants were about to flood the UK from Turkey etc.
- Freedom of movement only relates to immigration into the UK
- The US will do the UK favours due to a sentimental ethnic link
- Joint decision making and cooperation represents humiliating foreign rule

- We don't control our borders/leaving will allow us to control our borders
- Being in the EU prevents us from trading with countries elsewhere in the world
- Lisbon Treaty means we lose our veto in 2020 and have to join a United States of Europe under Germany

- We can "go back" to how things were before we joined the EU
- The EU is a corrupt neo-liberal dictatorship, but also a weak socialist federal state
- We will be able to get better trade deals alone than the EU can
- Not honouring the result of the referendum isn't democratic

- Everything will be ok because politicians must know what they're doing
- Membership of the EU returns less than it costs (by assigning a zero value to all benefits of membership that aren't direct financial flows)
- Brexit is deliverable in practice

- Economic forecasts may be wrong and Brexit could be great, because nobody can see the future. (Do such people not watch the weather forecast?)
- We'll be fine on WTO terms
- Take back control (of what?)
- Settling our post Brexit relationship will only take a year or two

- EU policies accelerated decimation of heavy industries in the North
- The EU makes all our laws
- The EU is undemocratic (because EU Commissioners are nominated) - who nominated Boris Johnson? His Cabinet?
- The referendum result was valid, despite the fraud and irregularities

- £350 million for the NHS
- The UK will hold all the power in future trade negotiations
- European army and conscription are coming
- Referendum was a grand exercise in democracy (instead of an advisory opinion poll that Leave won by a very narrow margin)

- We will get easy free trade agreements, especially with America
- Free trade agreements will replace all the benefits of the Single Market and Customs Union
- It will lower immigration
- Largest democratic event in UK history
- Vote Leave didn't break the law

- As soon as we leave that's the end of the story. Brexit ticked off. Will of the people fulfilled. Politicians will go back to concentrating on other things.
- Our departure will lead other countries to leave
- We will get a great deal because we're such a big customer of the EU

- We have to respect the referendum
- Brexit represents what the UK as a whole still wants, now, in 2019%, even though far less than half of all possible voters expressed a preference for it in 2016, and polls have shown a sustained shift towards Remain since.

- Will of the people (each voter *individually* knew what they were voting for, but so many different visions of Brexit were presented by the various Leave campaigns, there isn't one single *collective* Brexit everyone can or will agree on)

- Trade, free trade and the single market are not synonymous. Leaving the single market will mean less trade. But that's not because we will be physically *prevented* from trading, i.e. trade isn't going to stop. Indeed, we already trade with countries all over the world.

- The Withdrawal Agreement offers certainty
- Everyone who wants to remain (16 million plus) are part of the elite - by definition impossible
- Everything that's wrong with the UK is the EU's fault
- Jobs first Brexit
- Fifth (now sixth or seventh) largest economy in the world

- Project Fear (we had all that Project Fear stuff that didn't happen)
- It's Y2K all over again
- In the car sector, all the problems are about diesel and about the dash for electric cars - never about Brexit
- The EU is super bureaucratic (no - small number of civil servants)

- We have to make our own law (UK opposed just 74 out of 30,000+)
- Everyone knew what they were voting for
- That leaving the EU is better
- The EU tells us what to do
- Delivering Brexit will reunite us (actually it risks breaking Union up)

- Just get on with it
- Hard border doesn't affect the GFA because "border" isn't mentioned
- Fishing
- Small majority shouldn't equal giant upheaval (had it been the other way it wasn't an issue because nothing changed)
- No deal is not the status quo

- Germany is seeking to harm UK industry, yet German car manufacturers will come galloping over the hill to save us.
- Fifth largest economy not despite the EU but because we're in the EU
- It is a violation of democracy to revisit a decision after we have more info

- We will finally be able to trade with the rest of the world
- Norway/Sweden border situation is the same as NI/Ireland border

Phew! When you see all that nonsense in one fell swoop, it's amazing Remain got a single vote. What a terrible indictment of politics.

Thanks everyone for your contributions! Appreciate it. Hope this list can serve as a handy cheat sheet, a way to practice, hone and fine-tune your arguments before you have to use them in the field.

Added: they're not *all* in there, but I have already covered a goodly chunk of the above in my book 'Slaying Brexit Unicorns'. Some myths earned an entire section, others a paragraph or two. Available now on Kindle and paperback (follow the link below)
amazon.co.uk/dp/B07Z1FTRQW/…