Thread by @Philsbodydouble

Just to make this very clear, so everyone fully understands what is happening: we were given 3 main reasons for leaving the EU.

In no particular order, one was immigrants. All these EU queue jumpers everywhere was enough to drive a sovereign insane.

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#BrexitHasFailed

So we had to leave the EU to end FoM to control the inflow of these foreigners. And somehow have ended up with a record number of net migration not even achieved in the hay days of EU FoM: 606,000 just last year alone.

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Two was the fact the EU made us follow all these rules, standards and regulations we only had helped develop. Including a few we even didn't want! That was simply not acceptable!

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So we ended up leaving the worlds largest and most unique trading block. And somehow ended up joining a trade block the other side of the world. Having to follow rules, standards & regulations set by the current members without even having had a say helping develop them.

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And three was unfettered free trade with the rest of the world. The EU was a protectionist cabal that held us back doing proper free trade!

So we left the EU, giving up unfettered, free and frictionless trade with 30 of our direct neighbours.

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And now we have ended up rejecting unfettered free trade with the RoW and accept & join US protectionism in return from some crap mini deals the US & UK can't even be bothered to give details about or estimate how big the economic benefit will be.

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I really don't see how Brexit can become any more farcical than it already is. The world must be pissing themselves laughing witnessing all this.

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