Quote Originally Posted by Wales-Bales View Post
Cameron was very clear that it was an in or out referendum, not a half-in or half-out subvert the will of the people clownshow.
In or out of membership of the EU certainly - but the whole referendum campaign was full of (from the Leave side), Norway, Switzerland, Canada, Canada plus, easiest new trade deal in the history of trade deals, and a thousand other variations on the terms of leaving and the future relationship with the EU.

It is only since the outcome of the referendum that politicians and press have read back into the result confident claims about what was in the minds of the electorate when they placed their cross, anointed 'no deal' as the purest form of Brexit, denounced most of the models that they were previously advocating as 'half in and half out' and pronounced that the will of the people (or 51.89% of them) is being subverted by Parliament defending its sovereignty, and holding an executive with a crap deal to account!

The clownshow is in the editorial offices of the press (on both sides of the argument), in the inner sanctum of the ERG Spartan club with their pathetic conversion to May Deal 2, in No 10, and amongst the usual frothing little-Englanders. The positions many people now hold have hardened massively in over 3 years and bear little relationship to what was said, believed and was possible in the immediate aftermath of the vote. The main culprit for that was Theresa May with her cloth ears, refusal to seek consensus, rigid red lines and determination to put party unity above national interest (however that is defined).