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Old 12-12-2016, 02:12
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I voted Leave, still strongly believe it was the right decision but I can see exactly where we are heading with the Referendum result.. we are going to exit the EU to please Leave voters but we will remain in the EU in all but name. Still have FOM, access to the single market.. but with no say on EU laws and in a worse position.

And I don't want to give the Remain voters the satisfaction of blaming Brexit and Leave voters for everything bad which happens.. when we probably won't get the Brexit the majority actually voted for (so both sides will end blaming each other which will end ugly) - the BIG elephant in the room which is what nearly everyone who voted Brexit wanted was an end to FOM which doesn't look likely with us still wanting single market access..

I'd much rather us wait until 2020 General Elections, elect a party/leader which is strong and will do Brexit properly (if we decide to go down that road)

Anything else will hurt this country more than good, which I don't want. I'm not against staying in the EU if the only other option is a watered down version of what we have now with an even worse deal !

Anyone else agree?
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Old 12-12-2016, 02:25
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This was always going to be the reality, and leavers were told this unremittingly.

Leaving our free access to the SM was always going to be economically ruinous so no minister, inc Davis, will countenance it.
So that leaves us in a fudge.

It is an unmitigated, unresolved mess.
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Old 12-12-2016, 02:35
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No, I haven't changed my mind.
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Old 12-12-2016, 02:40
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This was always going to be the reality, and leavers were told this unremittingly.

Leaving our free access to the SM was always going to be economically ruinous so no minister, inc Davis, will countenance it.
So that leaves us in a fudge.

It is an unmitigated, unresolved mess.
Well, all these legal challenges should hold it up for a few more years anyway so just enough time for the 2020 G.E.
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Old 12-12-2016, 02:43
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No, I haven't changed my mind.
I haven't either but I want a Brexit that our spineless Tory government doesn't seem to have the stomach/fight to give us.

I'd rather wait until AFTER the next G.E
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Old 12-12-2016, 02:53
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I haven't either but I want a Brexit that our spineless Tory government doesn't seem to have the stomach/fight to give us.

I'd rather wait until AFTER the next G.E
The legal challenge that is about to go through the Dublin High Court could give the UK the opportunity to reverse its decision even after it has triggered Article 50. That would give Britain the chance to stay in the EU for the moment or perhaps even put the exit deal to a new referendum and see what the public think - the EU will clearly let Britain depart any time it wants, they're not the ones holding up Brexit.
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Old 12-12-2016, 08:07
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I haven't either but I want a Brexit that our spineless Tory government doesn't seem to have the stomach/fight to give us.

I'd rather wait until AFTER the next G.E
And that's the gist of it really.

With your "BIG elephant" you can't say for sure as FOM wasn't mentioned in the question, and the only polling data I've seen put it in second position as a reason. If it was the only thing asked, the majority may have chosen the other way. Who knows if it was multiple choice Brexit+retaining FOM could have won the day (I'd have backed that one)

The one thing you can say is true is people voted for the Brexit that a Tory government would deliver. Not a Brexit promised by UKIP, Labour or whoever.

It was the Tories who asked, it was the Tories who promised to deliver it, it will be the Tories who shape what is delivered. This people knew when they were voting for it.

I think there's no chance May will call a GE before it's done and dusted - that's why she's pushing to trigger A50 and get it out the way in 2019. There will then be a honeymoon period for her when every economic disaster can be blamed on birthing pains - every success attributed to Tory wisdom. Then you call the GE
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Old 12-12-2016, 08:14
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I voted Leave, still strongly believe it was the right decision but I can see exactly where we are heading with the Referendum result.. we are going to exit the EU to please Leave voters but we will remain in the EU in all but name. Still have FOM, access to the single market.. but with no say on EU laws and in a worse position.

And I don't want to give the Remain voters the satisfaction of blaming Brexit and Leave voters for everything bad which happens.. when we probably won't get the Brexit the majority actually voted for (so both sides will end blaming each other which will end ugly) - the BIG elephant in the room which is what nearly everyone who voted Brexit wanted was an end to FOM which doesn't look likely with us still wanting single market access..

I'd much rather us wait until 2020 General Elections, elect a party/leader which is strong and will do Brexit properly (if we decide to go down that road)

Anything else will hurt this country more than good, which I don't want. I'm not against staying in the EU if the only other option is a watered down version of what we have now with an even worse deal !

Anyone else agree?
Stop listening to the remainers, we will be leaving the putrid EU, if whining remainers still want to led around like sheep then they should go and live in their utopia.
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Old 12-12-2016, 08:22
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I'm not against staying in the EU
More leave voters need to start being honest and openly admit this.
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Old 12-12-2016, 10:05
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Anyone else agree?
No. Your entire 'argument' is nothing more than another tiresome attempt to blame remainers for the problems leaving the EU will bring.
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Old 12-12-2016, 10:13
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Sorry, Brexiteers.
You should have thought of that.
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Old 12-12-2016, 10:26
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I voted remain and still believe the vote to leave is an utter disaster and for a lot of those who voted for it it's a clear case of turkeys voting for Christmas.

However I support democracy and the people voted leave so leave we must.
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Old 12-12-2016, 10:31
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I voted remain and still believe the vote to leave is an utter disaster and for a lot of those who voted for it it's a clear case of turkeys voting for Christmas.

However I support democracy and the people voted leave so leave we must.
Precisely this.
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Old 12-12-2016, 10:32
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I would say leave now, as we have the momentum and take whatever we can get now but, in the GE, vote in a government who will change what needs to be changed and keep what is working. Nothing is ever set in stone so any negotiations made now can be improved upon once we have a government in that is willing to do the job properly.
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Old 12-12-2016, 10:36
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No. I don't see how leaving the EU but remaining in the single market addresses the main reasons people voted to leave which were ending FoM, ending EU law superceding UK law and ending paying billions to the EU to be a member.

The advantages of not being in the EU but be in the single market (but not a customs union), aka Norway, are the UK could do its own trade deals, pay a reduced contribution to be in the single market and fewer EU laws would apply. FoM however remains in place.
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Old 12-12-2016, 10:43
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Nope not changed my mind am even more convinced leaving is the right thing to do

The more people try to stop it the more I determined I become to see it through
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Old 12-12-2016, 10:46
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Our membership of the EU was characterised by opt-outs to please Eursoceptic elements so I don't think a non-membership of the EU featuring opt-ins to mollify Europhile elements should come as any surprise.

My own conviction is that it would be better to be properly in or properly out but our political system cannot deliver that. What is imperative is that people hold politicians, or rather the government, to account for their dissatisfaction rather than blaming the voters on the other side.
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Old 12-12-2016, 10:57
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I voted remain and still believe the vote to leave is an utter disaster and for a lot of those who voted for it it's a clear case of turkeys voting for Christmas.
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Including the idiots in the south Wales valleys, where there is hardly any immigration, but a massive amount of EU Objective 1 funding going on.

They would all compliantly trot out the Brexit mantra of "We will be only getting our own money back" of course, but what money? The valleys don't produce anything, and are massive net beneficiaries of the EU.
And why did they need EU money at all? Because successive UK governments neglected and under-funded any kind of regeneration there.

So they've bitten the hand that feeds them in favour of going under the yoke of the hand that starved them... again
Utter folly.
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Old 12-12-2016, 11:09
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The remainers could not must up sufficient arguments for the EU being a positive place to stay before the referendum and they still can't. It's still project fear.

Let's get on with leaving asap.
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Old 12-12-2016, 11:10
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If they still dont produce anything, where is the massive EU funding going and to do what?
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Old 12-12-2016, 11:31
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We voted to leave the EU not remain in it in all but name with no voting rights or ability to influence its policies.

As has been said there are only two options - hard Brexit or no Brexit. Soft Brexit isn't Brexit at all and is arguably worse than being in the EU where at least you get MEPs and have voting rights.
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Old 12-12-2016, 11:33
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We voted to leave the EU not remain in it in all but name with no voting rights or ability to influence its policies.

As has been said there are only two options - hard Brexit or no Brexit. Soft Brexit isn't Brexit at all and is arguably worse than being in the EU where at least you get MEPs and have voting rights.
Beginning to get it are you. The only feasible option is to stay in.
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Old 12-12-2016, 11:39
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I haven't either but I want a Brexit that our spineless Tory government doesn't seem to have the stomach/fight to give us.

I'd rather wait until AFTER the next G.E
But you also want a Brexit that wasn't on the ballot and will be economically damaging to our country.
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Old 12-12-2016, 11:46
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But you also want a Brexit that wasn't on the ballot and will be economically damaging to our country.
The only choices were "in" or "out."
There was nothing else.
The majority voted out, so out we go.
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Old 12-12-2016, 11:47
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The only choices were "in" or "out."
There was nothing else.
The majority voted out, so out we go.
But not necessarily out of the single market.
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