BasilSeal
Well-Known Member
That's all very well if you have a business that only you rely on, if you make a decision based on pride that ultimately harms your bottom line at least in the short to medium term, that's your problem and no one else's.
Then again, if you were running a business employing 100 people, and you make this type of decision, if it doesn't work out you may have to turn round to some of those people and tell them they don't have a job anymore.
then again, you could be running a country with 60 odd million people relying on you to maintain a viable economy, keep the lights on, the supermarket shelves full and the health service operating as it should. You can't just keep walking because you have a responsibility to all those people not to flush their functioning society down the toilet to satisfy your pride and selfish vanity.
simple things like having that brand of bread you like fresh on the supermarket shelves every day relies on complex just in time logistic services which in tern depend on the EU's open borders to work properly, there are many people who depend on regular prescription medication that won't be available in the event of a no deal scenario, medicines like insulin can't be stockpiled either.
If you burn everything down then you have to start from scratch on day one and rebuild complex regulatory and trade relationships, this isn't going to happen over night and people will suffer in the meantime.
Don't bother with the spirit of the blitz stuff because that's not what the prominent leave campaigners were saying during the referendum. doing a deal would be easy, they said, well they've proved themselves to be like the dog that caught the car and didn't know what to do next, because leave campaigners have been at the heart of the brexit negotiation process from day one and look at where we are now.
If you really want to leave without a deal then let's have a vote on it and see what the will of the people is on that one, because if you're so sure that's what people voted for, what's the problem with asking them again?
Then again, if you were running a business employing 100 people, and you make this type of decision, if it doesn't work out you may have to turn round to some of those people and tell them they don't have a job anymore.
then again, you could be running a country with 60 odd million people relying on you to maintain a viable economy, keep the lights on, the supermarket shelves full and the health service operating as it should. You can't just keep walking because you have a responsibility to all those people not to flush their functioning society down the toilet to satisfy your pride and selfish vanity.
simple things like having that brand of bread you like fresh on the supermarket shelves every day relies on complex just in time logistic services which in tern depend on the EU's open borders to work properly, there are many people who depend on regular prescription medication that won't be available in the event of a no deal scenario, medicines like insulin can't be stockpiled either.
If you burn everything down then you have to start from scratch on day one and rebuild complex regulatory and trade relationships, this isn't going to happen over night and people will suffer in the meantime.
Don't bother with the spirit of the blitz stuff because that's not what the prominent leave campaigners were saying during the referendum. doing a deal would be easy, they said, well they've proved themselves to be like the dog that caught the car and didn't know what to do next, because leave campaigners have been at the heart of the brexit negotiation process from day one and look at where we are now.
If you really want to leave without a deal then let's have a vote on it and see what the will of the people is on that one, because if you're so sure that's what people voted for, what's the problem with asking them again?