Short explainer: what do I mean by successful Brexit (thread)
1) The UK has left the EU. As someone teaching trade: putting up trade barriers to your largest market will leave you poorer than before. But the UK has left the EU nonetheless. Period.
2) But in that reality you can choose good and bad policies - more and less successful ones. A successful Brexit for me means choosing good policies.
3) Some of you will say: join the EU. Fair game. Get a movement started, but make it realistic. That means: include identity and sovereignty. A campaign on the grounds of trade benefits is insufficient. Right now, the chances of rejoining in the reasonable future: 0.
4) But that does not mean that we are doomed. And it does not mean that there are not right now choices available that will make the UK more or less successful.
5) A confident, strong UK will work with its neighbours and allies. It will be able to align regulation where it thinks that is advantageous. And it is ok for it to not want to be a member state of the EU.
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