You are reading a single comment by @mespilus and its replies.
Click here to read the full conversation.
London Fixed Gear and Single-Speed is a community of predominantly fixed gear and single-speed cyclists in and around London, UK.
This site is supported almost exclusively by donations. Please consider donating a small amount regularly.
mespilus
christianSpaceman
branwen
Reminds me of the person in the FT article the other day
https://www.ft.com/content/afef7700-d0f2-11e7-9dbb-291a884dd8c6 (yeah, paywall)
One thing underpinning many Brexiters’ confidence in Britain’s position is the belief that the country will be just fine without any preferential trade deal with the EU securing access to the bloc’s single market. So they argue the UK — not the EU — has the leverage in the Brexit talks.
They tend to dismiss the warnings of big job losses by banks in the City of London and the CBI, Britain’s biggest employers’ group, if there is no post-Brexit transition deal with the EU as just more of the scaremongering they believe Remainers engaged in during the referendum campaign. The fact that the sky has not fallen in and life has changed little on the ground in south Wales since the Brexit vote has only deepened their conviction.
“There are people queueing up to have trade deals with us,” said Mr Boucher’s wife Sue, citing Australia and New Zealand.
Neither Mr or Mrs Boucher trust the BBC — and its reports of mounting Brexit costs — so they seek alternative sources of news. “He’s constantly on YouTube, looking for stuff,” Mrs Boucher said of her husband.
During the referendum, she was the secretary for the anti-EU UK Independence party in Torfaen, the south Wales county that encompasses Pontnewynydd.
Her Ukip membership has lapsed but her Brexit fervour remains strong. In fact, her only apparent regret is that the fall in the value of the pound since the EU referendum may foil the Bouchers’ plan to sell their house and retire to Spain.