It leaves us with the option of punishing them at the ballot box :shrug:
They wanted the country to be able to spend its own money, manage its own borders and pass its own laws. You can't do that in the EU and you can't do that with a 'soft' (fake) Brexit.
To suggest that they must understand the mechanics and minutiae of trading protocol and arrangements before they can ask for that is bit orf, tbf. We have a large political class and civil service who are paid to grapple with the details, and the fact that this class is claiming that independence is a technical impossibility shows the true technocratic, democracy-phobic soul at the heart of the EU.
Because the ruling class was physically sick when the proles refused to obey their orders, and is doing everything it can to overturn the result of the referendum.
They had no plans for implementing a leave vote before the referendum, and they have had no plans for a no-deal scenario even up this point, over two years after the vote. When you have no plans for something, you have no serious intention of doing it.
"Better a bad Parliament, than a good King". - Tony Benn
Brexit should be just the first step in re-energising democracy and building a new political landscape, with new political parties and everything up for grabs in terms of ideas. And people like you, my friend, should be on the side of this peaceful, democratic revolution. :thumbup:
My sis-in-law, with whom we're staying atm, is the only Leave voter I know.
She voted out to "fück 'em all" and to send some more cash to the NHS where her other sister works.
I'm fairly sure she couldn't define sovereignty and it's not about immigration. She's Cornish so:
1. There are no immigrants here so they don't feel swamped in the slightest.
2. Don't matter if they're from Devon, Romania or Timbuk-fücking-tu, they're from the wrong side of the Temar and should all fück back off up country.
All these articles and letters and posts from Leave voters saying "All 17.4m voted for the exact same reasons I did" are getting on my tits.
There were myriad reasons which is why, given the closeness of the vote, there is no national majority for any outcome.
Which, as we all know, is why this country's political establishment is in the clusterfück it currently is.
This is why JRM feels he can push the govt into a hard Brexit. And why Sourbury, Ken Clarke and the Remainers think this then allows them to overturn the vote.
I reckon I've studied pretty much every govt since Walpole and can't think of it every being this fücked.
When Lord North lost the Septics, we had CJ Fox waiting in the wings which then led within a year to Pitt the Younger.
Suez led to Supermac.
Asquith had DLG, Chamberlain had WC, and the Tories twice had the bøllocks to actually split on the principle of free trade.
Today? Fücked.
No.
The logic of that position is that we had vote for full time representatives to make these complex decisions for us.
As you know full well. And which you'd fully support were Jezza's MPs to rebel on a manifesto commitment to steal all your money and send you to a gulag. Were that to happen, you'd be praising our representative democracy as you have on here many times in the past.