This seems like a good place for this. A twitter thread ostensibly from LeaveHQ, but inreality, I think, by Dr Richard North. He's been Eurosceptic for the past 40 years. I dip into his blog from time to time and I'm impressed by his knowledge and expertise, even though I don't agree with his conclusions about leaving the EU.
I've copied it here because I know that many people don't/won't follow links
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Tories and BXP are the same. Their vision for the UK (if it can be called that) is a collection of slogans and mantras without substance or a plan taking into account the realities of modern trade and cooperation. Beyond the immediate goal of #Brexit day, the cupboard is bare.
The sum total of Tory ambition is a threadbare deal with the US. That's as much thought as they've put into Britain's future and our place in the world. They think a quickie divorce from the EU resolves the European issue, failing to note that bilateral relations are a continuum.
Opponents are accused of sabotaging Brexit but do we really expect them to just roll over on the basis of a fantasy prospectus dreamt up by ideologue Tories who haven't the first idea how modern trade functions? They want credible answers and all we give them is dogma.
The Tories present the lesser of the two dangers while BXP take a wholly destructive nihilistic approach, thinking that any comprehensive relationship with the EU is a betrayal. But both paths end up at a similar dead end with the UK scrabbling for any deal we can get.
At no point have Brexiters given any thought as to what an independent Britain seeks to achieve internationally, or come up with a worthwhile domestic agenda. Brexit has become a holy grail quest. Beyond the act of leaving, we have offered nothing to voters. No incentive at all.
Empty mantras about "free trade" can win a referendum but at some point those mantras have to be introduced to reality at which point they start to crumble. We needed a comprehensive real world agenda and still the best we can do is blether about tinkering with tariffs.
In respect of that, Brexiteers are no different to Corbyn's Labour in seeking to impose threadbare ideology on to a real world that isn't going to cooperate. It's the same populism fused with zealotry and will have equally disastrous results.
Though we have always argued that the UK does not belong in the EU (and always will) the failure to face reality, seeking credible answers to complex dilemmas, and the failure to plan will see the UK massively diminished in wealth and status.
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