Reply to post: Re: What a surprise

Intel's €80bn European chip plant investment plan not bound for UK because Brexit

codejunky Silver badge

Re: What a surprise

@John Robson

"It matters - because there was never a requirement to do anything"

But as you say it was an opinion poll and the gov decided to do what people had a strong opinion of. And that opinion seems to have stayed from the referendum through MEP and general elections. Pro remain parties being all but wiped out and pro leave having the support throughout.

"unbelievably stupid as to leave both the EU (which we could have done, it would have been damaging but survivable) *AND* the customs union/single market..."

But to leave the EU and have the EU dictating our trade and trade rules would be unacceptable. Part of the problem was the protectionist single market.

"If you remember leaving the latter was always ruled out by those pushing the idea of leaving the EU."

Not as far as I was aware. Some wanted to stay in the SM others out. There was a wide range of opinions for leave as there was for remain.

"Suddenly it became something that had been decided by a referendum, and therefore something that we had to do, ignoring the fact that we hadn't actually prepared for it at all."

The lack of preparation irritated me too. As did dragging out the leave process. Had people willing to leave been allowed to get on with it we would have been fine, unfortunately it was a drawn out process of desperate attempts to remain.

POST COMMENT House rules

Not a member of The Register? Create a new account here.

  • Enter your comment

  • Add an icon

Anonymous cowards cannot choose their icon