Well, we’ll see now, I guess.

For all the farting about, the divorce deal and the UK’s position now is exactly where it was always going to be once the the redlines were, pretty resoundingly, endorsed by the electorate a week and a bit ago. The difficult Irish border decision having been made.

The Leave side now has every opportunity to play those cards. This is where it gets complicated, and trade-offs have to be made. Those are our Government’s decisions to make, which I know is a big win in itself for Brexiteers. But, inevitably some of those choices will be painful and disappoint some people, and those with highest hopes are likely to be the most disappointed.



Don’t forget that most people aren’t that engaged with it, and have better things to do with their time than to discuss it as much as we do. Illegally hunting foxes, watching Mrs Brown’s Boys and other Guardianista bete noires, probably. Some people do see Brexit as an economic panacea that has been denied that them by a cruel and out of touch liberal elite. While both measures had dropped from 57% of Leave voters in 2017, in March of this year 42% and 48% of Leave voters believed Brexit will be good for UK jobs, and the UK economy, respectively. While only 11% of Leave voters thought Brexit will be bad for the UK economy, 67% of them thought it’ll be bad for the EU economy. Assuming that isn’t double-think or ignorance about the relative size of the UK and EU27 markets, I can only imagine that is based on no longer making a net contribution to the EU outweighing the impact on trade. The jobs thing could be around greater demand for labour (small l) with reduced EU immigration, a major Remain blindspot, imo.

https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/ar ... ons-brexit

And, anecdotally, looking out from my liberal bubble, via Channel 4 News going to meet real people in Keighley, I was struck by a comment from a woman who bemoaned the state of the High Street and expressed hope that Brexit would deliver the investment required to improve it. A community that has been taken for granted and ignored by Labour and abandoned by Conservative governments, and it is a bit sad to see people so desperate for change that they’ll pin their hopes on this. To be fair, nobody is offering them anything else very compelling, and the alternative is that they give up hope.

Well, we’ll see now, I guess.

For all the farting about, the divorce deal and the UK’s position now is exactly where it was always going to be once the the redlines were, pretty resoundingly, endorsed by the electorate a week and a bit ago. The difficult Irish border decision having been made.

The Leave side now has every opportunity to play those cards. This is where it gets complicated, and trade-offs have to be made. Those are our Government’s decisions to make, which I know is a big win in itself for Brexiteers. But, inevitably some of those choices will be painful and disappoint some people, and those with highest hopes are likely to be the most disappointed.



Don’t forget that most people aren’t that engaged with it, and have better things to do with their time than to discuss it as much as we do. Illegally hunting foxes, watching Mrs Brown’s Boys and other Guardianista bete noires, probably. Some people do see Brexit as an economic panacea that has been denied that them by a cruel and out of touch liberal elite. While both measures had dropped from 57% of Leave voters in 2017, in March of this year 42% and 48% of Leave voters believed Brexit will be good for UK jobs, and the UK economy, respectively. While only 11% of Leave voters thought Brexit will be bad for the UK economy, 67% of them thought it’ll be bad for the EU economy. Assuming that isn’t double-think or ignorance about the relative size of the UK and EU27 markets, I can only imagine that is based on no longer making a net contribution to the EU outweighing the impact on trade. The jobs thing could be around greater demand for labour (small l) with reduced EU immigration, a major Remain blindspot, imo.

https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/ar ... ons-brexit

And, anecdotally, looking out from my liberal bubble, via Channel 4 News going to meet real people in Keighley, I was struck by a comment from a woman who bemoaned the state of the High Street and expressed hope that Brexit would deliver the investment required to improve it. A community that has been taken for granted and ignored by Labour and abandoned by Conservative governments, and it is a bit sad to see people so desperate for change that they’ll pin their hopes on this. To be fair, nobody is offering them anything else very compelling, and the alternative is that they give up hope.