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You are spot on.
The ideologically pure Brexiteers have got control of the steering wheel though, and they actually believe the hype that we have a glorious economic future when we can deregulate, do direct FTA, and hand pick our immigrants from around the world.
Whereas this is the moment when we chose irreversibly to consign ourselves to being a backwater in terminal decline.
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It's almost like they've engineered some kind of coup... A PM who's never won an election simply stating that she alone has the power to pick up the phone to Mr Juncker say 'we're out' and apparently that's enough. No one wants to argue with it. And this on the back of a 52% 'majority' in an advisory vote.
I'm just hoping that at some point the Tories actually stop and listen to their owners (you, know, the City etc), but I'm no longer holding my breath.
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I'm not one for hyperbole, but this has to be the biggest political error of judgement since Chamberlain, no? If you told me a year ago that the Tory party would be causing untold damage to the interests of the business community for the sake of appeasing a few populists I'd have said you were mad.
But here we are, watching them commit economic self harm because too many of the population believed the right wing media's constant blaming of migrants for the nations ills.