How do we resolve the Brexit mess?

[gordondaviesmoustache]

As for the FTZ promise, that was simply the most blatant lie of the Leave campaign (the rest was just speculation).

tbf, if May’s exit proposal had passed with a majority in the Commons then there would have been a FTZ so to characterise it as a lie is applying some mental gymnastics.

That said, that vote should not and cannot provide any excuse for the hard Brexit we ended up with. I would say that was far more contrary to our national interest than the vote to leave itself - not just because of the associated economic damage, but also because it divided the nation further, which was the last thing the country needed.

 

[johnnytapia]

If we vaporise London, would the rest of the U.K. get enough funding to survive for a decade or so?

Rather than vaporise it, couldn’t we “downsize” it?

 

[bluethrunthru]

Rather than vaporise it, couldn’t we “downsize” it?

are you offering your loft and or cellar as a place of relocation for a couple of disgruntled families of Cockernees? Very very brave.

 

[johnnytapia]

Some on here have always loved doing the UK down, it's a bit sad really.

It’d be pretty fucking hard to do it “up”.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

are you offering your loft and or cellar as a place of relocation for a couple of disgruntled families of Cockernees? Very very brave.

Why would they expect to upsize?

 

[RabidCity]

As Marr says I think it will be a slow surreptitious reintegration back into the single market

I think everyone is happy with access to the single market. It's what we have to give up to get that access that will cause a problem. Perhaps after enough thinking (and the older generations like my parents who feel betrayed by the 70's vote) not being around, we will come back to it as a nation. I don't think my generation are as patriotic.

Slow steady change in that direction is okay with me.

 

[bluethrunthru]

Why would they expect to upsize?

I have the estate agents blurb already for you mate

" spacious accommodation - majestic views ( loft only ) - and no ULEZ " - sells itself !!

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

It’d be pretty fucking hard to do it “up”.

I take it you’ve never been to Middlesbrough…

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

I think everyone is happy with access to the single market.

Plainly not.

 

[blueparrot]

I think everyone is happy with access to the single market. It's what we have to give up to get that access that will cause a problem. Perhaps after enough thinking (and the older generations like my parents who feel betrayed by the 70's vote) not being around, we will come back to it as a nation. I don't think my generation are as patriotic.

Slow steady change in that direction is okay with me.

What do we have to give up to get access that’s so bad ?
Or put another way what did we gain when we left the single market ?
By the way my parents both regret / regretted ( in my late fathers case)their leave vote quite a while back realising they bought the lies and accepted they should have listened to their children and grandchildren. Not Johnson / Farage/ Daily Mail