Thread by @CliveWismayer

Two quotes from today’s Observer struck me. The first is from Andrew Rawnsley’s comment piece:

‘Remainers struggled to find ways to make technical-sounding issues matter to the public. Among many voters and many politicians, the great benefits of being inside the ..

.. single market were taken for granted right up until the moment when they vanished.’

The second is from an article on the disastrous impact Brexit is having on small businesses that trade with the EU. Andrew Moss runs a packaging & point of sale marketing display business. ..

.. He employs 37 people in Ely & turns over £3.5M. From the article:

‘The last three weeks, he says, have been a living nightmare. “Soft Brexit – there is no such thing. This is horrific,” he says. “We celebrated the Brexit deal with champagne over Christmas but when ..

.. we woke up and realised that this car crash was happening, we thought, oh my God!”

He has since considered closing the business, especially on discovering his EU customers must pay VAT on their purchases.

How is it possible he &, presumably, millions of others did not ..

.. know what leaving the SM & CU would mean, whatever deal the govt. did or did not do? As Rawnsley says, the govt. knew. He cites Johnson’s lie (which he calls a ‘fib’ for some reason) when announcing the deal in December & which I keep boring the pants off everyone by ..

.. reproducing, as I do again - ‘No non-tariff barriers to trade’.

So cataclysmically stupid & self harming is Brexit that businesses are being advised by the govt. to relocate inside the EU. How off the wall crazy is that? Meanwhile, with a laugh (because it’s all so ..

.. hilariously funny) Rees-Mogg encourages Redwood & other demented lunatics to submit their ideas for taking advantage of Brexit’s new opportunities, like children putting notes about not having to wear caps in the school suggestion box.

Nationalism + ignorance spells disaster.