Quote Originally Posted by WES View Post
If it was clear that voting Leave meant a hard Brexit what are we having these negotiations for?

I expect that a large number of Leave voters never believed that a hard Brexit would happen, mostly because so many people kept telling the public that a hard Brexit wasn't in either sides interests.

I'm really struggling to see a way out of this that doesn't at some point involve asking the people if they want a hard Brexit.
We're having these negotiations because our leaders are too weak and remain-focused to have negotiated properly. Hard Brexit (ie walking away) should always have been our basic negotiating position, allowing for concessions to be made where both sides could agree. Instead, our government has gone into negotiations trying essentially to remain in the EU in all but name - something for which they had no mandate and which they could never deliver.