Brexit could be the most significant political event of our lifetimes. It is an extremely complex question, which is why it should never have been put to a referendum.
Perhaps we need more brexit threads - to discuss the many aspects of our national life which are threatened by brexit- international trade, road transport, aviation, science and engineering, medicine and the supply of vital drugs, research, funding and staffing the NHS, manufacturing including JIT supply chains, agriculture and food supplies, the effect on professional services, the drop in the value of the pound, security and the question of the Irish border, immigration and the treatment of EU nationals living in the UK and British citizens in the other EU27 countries and many more issues.
It is also relevant to look at the way the referendum was conducted and the discredited leave campaign, found guilty of cheating by the electoral commission, the shady characters including foriegn billionaires who used data-mining and targeted messages to influence voters, the overwhelming bias in the press, whose ultra-wealthy proprietors are among the very few who could possibly gain from brexit, and we should also look at political theory, such as the Overton Window theory which shows how formerly unacceptable views and policies can be made to seem mainstream and the involvement of Russia, in both the Trump election and the EU referendum.
I realise that not everyone is interested in all of these aspects of brexit and some may not be interested in any, either because they are bored and don't care or they do not want their preconceptions challenged by information. One of the great successes of the leave propaganda was the "British people have had enough of experts" remark which been taken as a license to ignore facts and warnings from all manner of knowledgable and experienced people.
It is, to me, so telling that the leavers on Gransnet want to limit or shut down the brexit threads, just as they continue to repeat lies and make personal attacks. I know very well that I am not the only Remain supporter on GN but if I thought I was, I would redouble my efforts to make people see sense in time, before a member of my family dies for lack of essential medicine and we condemn our children and grandchildren to a bleak and empoverished future. Fortunately Mumsnet contains many more brexit threads which I recommend. They can be found grouped together at-
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/eu_referendum_2016_