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I think this is the same point I was making - people who voted to leave did so for a wide variety of reasons. Many of them (inevitably) had wildly exaggerated expectations of what lesving would achieve.
The people will be gratified or disappointed when Brexit will take place for real and when the consequences will be shown. We shall see I am more distressed seeing the blind hatred that seems to be aimed at other people than Brits, blatant racism is on the rise and fact free arguments as well. The leave side promised a lot they never could and would deliver and the remain side would see their arguments thrown into the fear mongering aspect. That was bound to happen as they never did start a decent discussion or movement with arguments for a remain until they noticed they might lose the referendum. And by that time they had lost a lot a believably out of sheer complacency and arrogance.
What did shock me most however was the fact that Uk government wanted to bypass parliament into invoking article 50 and thereby ignoring any democratic grounds for a Brexit and thus splitting the country once again in two. May and friends do seem to aim at a powerplay instead of a uniting option by engaging the democracy they claim to represent. It shows the same flaw they blame the EU for to begin with.
I do hope we get a decent working relationship with the UK as the US will do a lot of business straight with the EU and bypass the UK altogether as the gains importing through them are lost.
Part of a series which also features "Five Go Parenting", "Five go Gluten-Free", "Five Give Up the Booze", and "Five go on a Strategy Away Day".
It's all to the good of the UK. I'm glad that you approve.
However, I still think that the UK is in the worse negotiation position. The EU may lose access to a market of around 60 million people, whereas the UK will lose access to 450 million people. It is a very assymetric negotiation. If it is about the details on trade regulation, I guess that the EU has an advantage. And the UK simply will have something to offer. In the long run, the biggest problem could be that multinational enterprises will reconcieder their investment decision and location choice and move to Dublin or other European cities.
I further wonder if Britains are aware that they are citizens of a union of nations themselves which also have different interests. It was quite amusing when PM May mentioned yesterday how important it is that the four nations stay together and don't work against each other in the negotiation process. However, it is not unrealistic that the Scotts buy following their own interests will mainly work against the PM.
That has yet to be determined. It all depends on an EU-like free trade deal (with the same tarifs that the UK is enjoying now, or one that will have much higher tarifs) that the UK and the EU will negotiate about.