How do we resolve the Brexit mess?

gordondaviesmoustache said:
It’s pretty aligned with what I had in mind when I vioted to remain, should we collectively vote to leave, partly because I didn’t truet our political class to implement it with any degree of competence. And I’m not claiming any particular powers of prescience, I’m frequently bad at predicting events, I just applied a bit of logic and common sense, which seemed to depart so many other, otherwise rational people around the subject of the EU.

This was all inevitable imo, certainly through the prism of a hard Brexit.

Why on earth did you think unravelling fifty years of bilateral international trading and political ties was going to be any thing other than extremely painful. It simply doesn’t stand to reason to assume otherwise. In fact, to me, it borders on an insane and utterly reckless analysis of the situation. Its fucking nuts to think this was going to be anything other than a horrible process.

And it’s going to get far worse.
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Well, the ‘designer’ and mentor of brexit is gone.
We know that he never believed in brexit, evidenced by the fact that, by his own admission, he had no intention of keeping to the deal he himself signed, and of course the two versions he wrote on the subject - one for, one against. Brexit to him was simply a tool to achieve his lifelong aim of being ‘king of the world, or prime minister which was more practical.
But what we are left with is a cabinet and senior ministers who readily followed the pied piper, believing - quite rightly- that in return for their devotion to the brexit cause, they would receive the riches of prime ministerial patronage and would get jobs which they were spectacularly incapable of doing. But it didn’t matter, they fell into line and so it was done.
Now however, these same people, with the demise of Johnson, are freed of the dogma of brexit, they no longer have to nod along with the accepted orthodoxy.
The opportunity now arises for some clear uninfluenced thinking on the govt. front bench and from the incoming PM to actually break from the old Johnson line and admit what we already know - that brexit is a disaster and will continue to be so for generations.
Assuming it’s not a lunatic fringe candidate- eg baker or braverman- that wins , there is an outstanding chance that some new thinking could be applied and brexit could be reviewed in light of what we know now and not what was dishonestly promised by those who knew it was undeliverable.
Probably a forlorn hope to hope for original thinking in the Tory party.
 
That article is a few years old and I'm sure the economics may have changed since that conversation took place.
 
FT piece on our medical regulator struggling to find staff and lagging behind on approvals. Interesting to see how this plays out over a longer timespan.

‘Their audit of "novel" drugs authorisatiions in 2021 found that only 35 so-called novel medicines were approved for use in the UK... 2021

...compared with 40 in the EU

....and 52 in the US.

This isn't that surprising, as I say, since theUK is only 2.4% of global health spend versus 22% in the EU.

So market size makes the paperwork less worthwhile. Also the NHS is a nighmare and NICE, the rationing/approvals body, doesn't fund some new meds’
 
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