mint Posted July 4, 2017 Share Posted July 4, 2017 Apologies for asking such a basic and naive question.So, we can take back "control of our waters and fisheries" but it will not be total control, we can take back "control of our borders" but we will still have to accept skilled personnel such as in the the NHS and low-paid farming industry workers, we can "trade around the world" but we will still need to get those trade agreements outside of the EU, and we can do this, that and the other but there always seems to be some sort of caveat.Now, I read this:[url]https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jul/04/uk-ministers-move-to-allay-brexit-fears-over-access-to-medicines[/url]Explain to me, somebody, PLEASE, is there any point to Brexit at all? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybanana Posted July 4, 2017 Share Posted July 4, 2017 Simply put, Nimt, no. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyh4 Posted July 4, 2017 Share Posted July 4, 2017 I have to disagree, it most certainly does have a purpose: viz. to fulfil the expressed wished of the people.No matter how flawed that will might be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazzer Posted July 4, 2017 Share Posted July 4, 2017 Maybe not.https://politicalscrapbook.net/2017/07/vote-leave-campaign-director-says-voting-leave-may-have-been-an-error/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crabtree Posted July 4, 2017 Share Posted July 4, 2017 Even the Vote Leave campaign boss thinks it might be a mistake!!!!!!http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/brexit-dominic-cummings-vote-leave_uk_595b62bbe4b02734df33fbc0?ncid=tweetlnkukhpmg00000008Oops posted almost simultaneously! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mint Posted July 4, 2017 Author Share Posted July 4, 2017 Interesting posts, thank you.As the months have gone on and no progress seems to have happened with the "negotiations", I am beginning to suspect that Brexit is not doable and that that is why all those politicians who were so keen on it are now back-tracking and even distancing themselves from the task in hand.As for the pudding-faced Davies claiming that the negotiations are going well...........you only have to look at the sly look in his eyes when he is telling us these porkies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EuroTrash Posted July 5, 2017 Share Posted July 5, 2017 "I am beginning to suspect that Brexit is not doable"But the wheels have been set in motion, and whether any progress has been made or not the clock is ticking away, so unless somebody stops the process Brexit will happen, whether done to the UK's advantage or not. If it's not "doable" then is it undoable, because now the process has started it has to be one or the other. If it's not stopped the clock will keep ticking and the EU is keen to move on, I suspect it won't let the uncertainty drag on for a day longer than necessary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mint Posted July 5, 2017 Author Share Posted July 5, 2017 Thanks, ET, talk about the sword of Damocles.............[6] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybanana Posted July 5, 2017 Share Posted July 5, 2017 It can be stopped or even extended. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mint Posted July 6, 2017 Author Share Posted July 6, 2017 Well, Wools, here is hope for you...........[url]https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jul/06/uk-business-leaders-to-call-for-indefinite-delay-in-leaving-single-market[/url] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mint Posted July 9, 2017 Author Share Posted July 9, 2017 A good summary here of the "point of Brexit", if you could find one, that is........[url]https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jul/09/brexit-salvations-illusory[/url] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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