Six months post Brexit and the picture is clear,Britain is heading for isolationalism

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pedrok

28-12-2016

Originally Posted by MTUK1:
“I never said it should be a major decider. You did. I said that nobody can complain that we're leaving. The referendum was always on the horizon. Nobody can stick their fingers in their ears and pretend otherwise.”

The referendum was not always on the horizon. It needed a number of factors to occur before it could happen.

Honestly, like explaining chess to a pigeon.

MTUK1

28-12-2016

Originally Posted by pedrok:
“The referendum was not always on the horizon. It needed a number of factors to occur before it could happen.

Honestly, like explaining chess to a pigeon.”

Yes it was. Being obtuse won't change that.

mRebel

28-12-2016

Originally Posted by david16:
“But it was not the EU way back then but the EEC.

And at the time of the EEC in/out referendum the EU the manner it is now was not well in the pipeline of the then EEC. It was only a trading block back thsn and behaved 100% like it

The EU the way it is now was only in consideration in the fag end of the 1980's.

All those 1980's EEC summits that the UK government were the only ones who voted against proposals every time did not look even 1 inch the EU let alone every inch the EU all along.

The EEC was certainly not the EU in everything but name ever since the UK joined.

For the UK to hace held referendums on all EEC then EU proposals "every step of the way" would have made the UK the laughing stock of the world long before the June 2016 EU in/out referendum when no other member was holding a referendum on any of these proposals anyway.”

Yes, but it shows that just as voting to leave is a step into the unknown, so would a vote to stay have been, as we don't if, and in what way, the EU may change in the future. The Scots who want another independence referendum will understand that.

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