We are rapidly becoming a laughing stock. The column by Michael Deacon (HERE) is amusing but has a serious point. Bernard Jenkins says the Leave campaign was always clear about leaving the single market (actually this is not true since Matthew Elliot's 1000 page tome about Brexit before the referendum gave the Norway option as one possible outcome on page 232 HERE) but as Mr Deacon points out this is just one of the claims made by Brexiteers but the only one they are standing by - ignoring the £350m a week for the NHS, VAT on fuel and others.
Then BoJo is offering to help Turkey join the EU after scaremongering about the very same thing in the campaign while David Davis seems to think coming repeatedly to the house to say the same thing amounts to a policy and said:
“The mandate for Britain to leave the EU is clear, overwhelming and unarguable. No one should seek to find ways to thwart the will of the people.”
“The mandate for Britain to leave the EU is clear, overwhelming and unarguable. No one should seek to find ways to thwart the will of the people.”
Clear? Overwhelming? Unarguable? What is surprising is that the government thinks it has a mandate for "something" but doesn't really know what. The decision on the 23rd of June is taken as the settled will of the British people on a matter of stunning complexity but it has taken three months and all the experts in government and still we have no idea what we are going to get.
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