Half the population couldn't tell you the name of the prime minister if their lives depended on it
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This suggests that about 3/4 of those who voted for brexit would prefer a hard Brexit.
That half of remain voters are hoping for a miracle, and that if a further referendum was held on hard vs soft Brexit then soft would probably win.
Half the population couldn't tell you the name of the prime minister if their lives depended on it
No, not at all.
I'm just suggesting that a significant percentage of the country will have more interest in who the winner of CBB is than who the prime minister is.
You might as well conduct a poll among babies in a maternity ward about what brand of milk they want as conduct a poll about hard or soft brexit amongst our electorate
I thought we could have it all and didn't have to choose. When are Europe due to come begging again?
The EU won't last without Britain and the US behind it.
Because I believe that as we stand we're fecked. We depend on Europe for trade - we've screwed that up. We depend on Europe for funding - we've fecked that up too, exchange rates are going to increase the costs of our imports, exacerbated by the inevitable tariffs on European imports, and a summer holiday anywhere other than Barry island this year is going to cost an arm and a leg.
We are therefore left at the mercy of Boris Johnson managing to do a deal with Donald Trump to have any chance of a favourable trade deal with a major trading bloc.
Either that, or the whole European Union falls apart and we go back to where we were before the EU.
Looking on the bright side, most major international banks will end up leaving the U.K. so may be the last we'll see of jursett
I'm sorry, but I don't follow your logic. The vast majority of countries in the world are not part of the EU, and even if the EU ended tomorrow, do you really think that it's constituent countries would stop trading with each other?
Brexit is about not wanting to be part of a political union. World trade will continue regardless of whether the EU exists or not.
You may well be right, but both of us (reasonably intelligent people I'd like to think) "think", "feel", "believe", but the truth is, nobody really KNOWS for sure what the outcome will be, other than my summer holiday just got a whole lot moe expensive.
My whole argument is though that we have made a pretty momentous decision without knowing what the outcomes will be.
Quite a few EU nationals going off on one on twitter after May's speech.
"1 million British people live in our country (spain), hurting our health service"
For a start it is around 300,000.
And this is the exact sort of comment on migration that get's called xenophobic here in the UK.