(10-02-2019, 09:39 AM)Derek Hardballs Wrote: I see we have a new plan to put to the EU that some experts (I know some of you Brexiteers don't like experts) have already suggested is designed to fail. Can someone explain why we seem so keen to leave without a deal that they can explain the benefits of for the average person in the streets?
The benefits for the average person are elusive and difficult to quantify: there are times when it would be easy to imagine they don't really exist. Like unicorns.
As George Michael said "You gotta have faith". Mind, George was a multi-millionaire living overseas by the time he said that, and hardly average in terms of talent.
Edit: I tried to avoid reverting to type and making the cynical response that if there were benefits for the average person this government wouldn't be promoting the idea. Obviously I've weakened.
Just supposing for a minute that the worst happens - we crash out at the end of the month and have to, among other things, negotiate a new deal with the EU; a deal which will inevitably be less advantageous than the one we've just 'surrendered' (see what I did there?).
This is the party who did eff-all for the nine months between June 2016 and March 2017, and then managed to negotiate eff-all in the subsequent two and a half years. We'll still be on WTO rules when Queen Meghan is on the throne.