tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36841665.post8859135280202465908..comments2023-12-31T13:47:05.758+00:00Comments on Fat Man on a Keyboard: Four Posts on Brexit; 4. Lost and foundThe Plumphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09244528534476387323noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36841665.post-79027772961108803732016-07-26T14:45:03.844+01:002016-07-26T14:45:03.844+01:00Take solace in drink
wise wordsTake solace in drink<br /><br />wise wordsSPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02173088694901621483noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36841665.post-29978768599878574362016-07-21T14:30:50.192+01:002016-07-21T14:30:50.192+01:00Oh, and it is worth saying that any compromise dea...Oh, and it is worth saying that any compromise deal will not be on our terms.The Plumphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09244528534476387323noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36841665.post-42935168659006583292016-07-21T13:03:38.687+01:002016-07-21T13:03:38.687+01:00Thanks Simon, I blush.
To paraphrase Orwell, if t...Thanks Simon, I blush.<br /><br />To paraphrase Orwell, if there is hope, it lies with the young. I think this generational divide is pretty profound.<br /><br />I also think that the contradictions, risks and problems are so difficult there will have to be a compromise. Hard headed Tory governments have never been keen on suicide, which is why they took the precaution of not letting the members vote for the crazy candidate. So you are right, I agree. What form it will take will be interesting.<br /><br />This is going to take years, and in that time the electorate will change, and being now in my 60s I am less keen on the inevitability of that change. Two other things may happen. Labour may return to sanity and, more likely, the EU will start reconsidering their assumptions, especially on the political economy of the Eurozone. Virtually all the 'threats' the Brexiteers saw could diminish if not entirely disappear (Turkey about to join the EU anyone?). Both have already started, but god knows how long it will take. This means that any second referendum or general election on the terms of exit could be a very different beast. But then there may never be one. So there is hope. But I think your pessimism is well founded and I share it.<br /><br />Take solace in drink.The Plumphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09244528534476387323noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36841665.post-81478956217646737002016-07-21T11:42:37.520+01:002016-07-21T11:42:37.520+01:00Peter
Thanks so much for these which can have bee...Peter<br /><br />Thanks so much for these which can have been no mean feat. As ever they are almost entirely congruent with, and have helped coalesce, my thinking.<br /><br />I suspect, and hope, that on some of the practical stuff there will be an (entirely hypocritically) accommodation with existing European law – so much for “sovereignty”. Beyond that I am profoundly pessimistic.<br /><br />Best blog response to Brexit bar none.<br />SPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02173088694901621483noreply@blogger.com