A Brexiter wingeing about "Brexit betrayal". A staggeringly dishonest article which epitomises the fundamental dishonesty of Brexit.
This doesn't for one second analyses the fundamental incoherence of Brexit: how can a country get more "free trade" by leaving the biggest free trade zone in the world? Nor does it acknowledges the limitations of FTAs which mostly deal with tariffs & quotas, when liberalisation
of modern trade is about harmonisation of standards which means for a mid size country like the UK adopting the trade standards of big trading blocks without any say whereas in the EU we contributed to setting them. @FraserNelson is either delusional or a hypocrite. The "vision"
which (according to him) justifies his vote (& was betrayed) of a free "bucaneering" Britain was always stupid. Britain isn't big enough. Most of the British population who voted for Brexit are very attached to the European model of protections: health subsidised by the State,
protections in the work place, consumers standards, protection of major industries against foreign competition. The irony is that the EU kept our industries competitive by totally free competition from 27 other countries. No FTAs will replicate this. We will be far more
protectionist than before. Low taxes, says @FraserNelson were the "sunny uplands" promise. But Brexit was dishonestly sold as a project were we would have low taxes AND the same State support as before. In fact it was sold as a project where we would retain all the benefits &
gain huge advantages. A honest Brexiter with - to use a topical expression- buyer's remorse, would acknowledge the fundamental dishonesty of the Brexit "project" as sold to the electorate.This whingeing article doubles down on the worst fallacies of Brexit. It is a piece of s..t

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