There were two real options in 2019.
One involved accepting this deal.
One involved renegotiating this deal and putting it to a referendum.
The majority backed the Conservative party. Those voters can blame the deal on themselves, or the Conservative party for adopting it.
But of course they don't because the politicians are only too happy to give them an out and blame the EU.
In 2016 a majority of the people chose to leave the EU and put us in a weak negotiating position.
In 2017 the electorate gave a party a majority for hard Brexit.
In 2019 they voted for the WA, knowing what it did.
Or choosing to believe the lies of a PM who was contradicting people in his own cabinet.
Nobody made them do it.
Some people need to learn what it is to be an adult and take some responsibility for their choices.
A country can always change it's mind about it's choices, but there is no sign of that.
They were told Brexit was a leap in the dark, and they leaped.
They said it can't be as bad as it is now.
If what they said was true, either things are better and good luck to them, or this was a mistake.
If their lives are better, people need to celebrate the improvement and stop blaming the EU things are not perfect, and if it's a mistake they need to start admitting it to themselves.
We're seeing people who celebrated deliberately stripping people of their European citizenship crying about how threatened they are by what country their sausages come from.
They got what they wanted when millions of others didn't.
It's time for the winners to stop whining, grow the hell up, and start accepting some responsibility for their decisions.
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This article about honesty in politics shows us why the European Union is in a difficult position with regard to the Northern Ireland Protocol. (Thread)
It begins with a quote, we are told, that was written by Lord Thorneycroft in 1947 about a plan that must be kept from the public.
Lord Thorneycroft may not have written those words.
He was the principal author of the pamphlet ‘Design for Europe’, published by the Tory Reform Group, but we don’t know who wrote that particular passage.
Someone copied my IDS tweet into her timeline. I'm not happy when this happens, but it does mean I will now feel free to say whatever I like about them.
Something similar happened with this dishonest, deceitful, despicable, dick-head too.
I never intended to be blocked by Dan Hannan, but at least I knew that it was because I'd ran a massive internet poll to determine if he was an imbecile or a liar, and live in the knowledge that it had got to him.
The Benn Act came precisely because the PM didn't have any ideas, had promised to leave by an arbitrary date in the Conservative elections, and was shutting down democracy to ensure that he could.
What this argument amounts to is:
Democracy is the reason we couldn't sort out the deal, because it got in the way of a threat that the other side had made very clear they were not threatened by.
The problem with the argument about 'nerdy Brexiteers' understanding where the deregulation needs to come from becomes apparent when you hear people like Christopher Nieper, (Managing director of @davidnieper )