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Topic History of: Another Brexit present... Max. showing the last 5 posts - (Last post first)
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Wyot
GM/Honey - you may well be right & there is a large factor of incompetence behind these Brexit stories but I'm interested really in understanding any benefit to the move? Like Hedda I can't see any yet.
Trade and trading agreements through history have promoted invention, ingenuity and peace between nations. Ok the EU went a lot further than trade. The press persuaded a lot of people that Brussels was a self-serving elite that can interfere in our lives. So now we only have a self serving elite in Westminster and none of the trade and movement benefits.
Hedda: yes wouldn't it be wonderful if we lived in a culture where our leaders could admit mistakes, and I agree the media is the main problem.
Look at the crap being flung at our Education Secretary currently for mixing up the names of two black sportsmen; assumptions of racism and career over (he was pathetic; but still...).
Maybe the guy was just busy & tired. Maybe that was all it was.
hedda
always with Green Man an opportunity to attack Crazy Joe Biden..
I can't see any possible benefits of Brexit..not one.
But open to hearing about them.
Not sure how any politician can get their head around such a huge complex problem and it came at a pretty bad time in history ( Covid etc).
#### I blame the media (who else ) for endlessly attacking politicians who are never allowed to change their minds under risk of damnation.
They should be openly allowed to say "I made a balls up of that so let's move on and do it differently" but they never can.
Honey
I agree with GM. Brexit being a good idea or not is beside the point.
We have had plenty of notice because it dragged on and on for ever.
Before we "Brentranced" ( Sorry couldn't stop myself) we didn't have to put shit into rivers etc, so it is obviously not inevitable, just a gigantic excuse for laziness.
Wyot
Green Man wrote: Nothing wrong with Brexit. It's just managed badly by shit politicians who priorities are themselves.
There may be nothing "wrong" with Brexit as such GM - when details are worked through - but what was the point of it?
Green Man
Nothing wrong with Brexit. It's just managed badly by shit politicians who priorities are themselves.