Excuse me if my tone is blunter than before December.
I've always maintained that it was totally reasonable to vote Leave. Nobody knew which Brexit we'd negotiate.
But voting for the same people who brought us 3 years of chaos? This time you did know EXACTLY what you voted for.
I've always maintained that it was totally reasonable to vote Leave. Nobody knew which Brexit we'd negotiate.
But voting for the same people who brought us 3 years of chaos? This time you did know EXACTLY what you voted for.
So when Johnson fails to negotiate a permanent trade deal in 6 months and people start supporting a No-Deal that would make us the only country on Earth with no trade deals with anyone on its own continent. i.e. something every successful country chooses to avoid.
I'll be blunt.
I'll be blunt.
I am NOT saying we should have been less polite. We weren't polite ENOUGH. We allowed the narrative that remainers are calling all leavers stupid to thrive.
Remainers weren't EU experts any more than leavers. Our job was to call out stupid arguments WHILE respecting Leave voters.
Remainers weren't EU experts any more than leavers. Our job was to call out stupid arguments WHILE respecting Leave voters.
E.g.
An argument that a $17.5 trillion economy of 500 million people needs a $2.5 trillion economy of 65 million people more than the reverse is an objectively stupid one.
But very few people heard it put that way. Only extreme nationalists would buy that.
An argument that a $17.5 trillion economy of 500 million people needs a $2.5 trillion economy of 65 million people more than the reverse is an objectively stupid one.
But very few people heard it put that way. Only extreme nationalists would buy that.
