Nigel Adams our local MP (see right) who campaigned to leave the EU, speaking to The Selby Times on June 30th said:
"This is a bright new future for our country and our part of North Yorkshire. We've got a really prosperous future ahead of us".
However, the problem for Mr Adams is that the horizon is full of ominous clouds. Withdrawal from membership of the biggest, richest and closest market to us will not help us to prosper and in a year or two, when things have not gone well - no extra billions for the NHS for example - the 52% will become increasingly impatient. To maintain support for leaving is going to be difficult (and let us hope impossible) he and the other prominent leavers are going to have to adopt tactics last used by the Russian communists.
The mantra will be to blame it all on the EU for their intransigence and to exhort people to be patient and work harder as the economy stalls and unemployment grows. Then inflation will begin to eat into the value of pay packets. Through this the Brexiteers will have to keep saying be patient, jam will be delayed until next year and then the year after and so on. The communists managed to do this for over 70 years - my guess is that the Brexiteers have until the 2020 elections at most. We will make sure people know who to blame.
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