EU referendum, brexit and the aftermath

Also his wife inspired Pulp's Common People (she came from Greece she had a thirst for knowledge). #neverforget

Sour grapes, much?

But he's right there will be sooooooooooo much politics and hurdles, even when you try to be reasonable.

Other EU citizens in other EU countries can *perhaps*help, it's not that protests didn't derail TTIP for example, but the UK has made itself ... unpopular.

Good read. Also good to see an anti-EU view in the Guardian.

I thought the concluding para was very astute:

** So what can Theresa May do?**

The only way May could secure a good deal for the UK would be by diffusing the EU’s spoiling tactics, while still respecting the Burkean Brexiteers’ strongest argument, the imperative of restoring sovereignty to the House of Commons. And the only way of doing this would be to avoid all negotiations by requesting from Brussels a Norway-style, off-the-shelf arrangement for a period of, say, seven years.

The benefits from such a request would be twofold: first, Eurocrats and Europhiles would have no basis for denying Britain such an arrangement. (Moreover, Schäuble, Merkel and sundry would be relieved that the ball is thrown into their successors’ court seven years down the track.) Second, it would make the House of Commons sovereign again by empowering it to debate and decide upon in the fullness of time, and without the stress of a ticking clock, Britain’s long-tem relationship with Europe.