EU referendum, brexit and the aftermath

The way it works with Conservative plans over the past ten years has been this:

1. Politician says dumb fascistic thing, ie, 'all vegetables must be
   from Britain'
   
2. Outcry as left-wing people point out that reality works different,
   while right-wing papers talk about how brilliant the new policy is
   
3. The policy is taken away to be looked at for a number of months, and
   either comes back in a slightly less dumb way, or is 'pending review'
   
4. People who don't read the papers think that the policy is now law
   because they read about it, oooh, ages ago
   
5. People who do pay attention to the news are provoked into being
   outraged about something else, and forget to fight the new slightly
   less dumb version of the policy
   
   

We're firmly at stage 2 here. Don't forget that the UK and the EU are doing some big trade talks, so the UK needs to show that it is totally tough and wants to go it alone. There's room for some deals to be cut there, but that depends on how much of a fucking idiot the post-Brexit trade guy is