Workingman wrote:Could it be that turning our backs on our closet friends and neighbours and biggest trading partners is a crock of sh1t and that the majority have woken up to the fact and do not want to go ahead with it?
In order to have trading partners, Plural, there needs to be give and take. On the EU side it is all take by the EU and all give by the UK. The UK has a trade surplus with the US and is our Largest export partner! Why not forget that and keep trading with our "partners". Once we get out of the EU our trade balance with the US will even out as we remove the blocks to US trade that the EU puts in place.
Please, if we're going to have a discussion about this don't twist the whole thing. Germany is the biggest exporter to the UK, By FAR. Germany is NOT our friend or there would be a trilateral summit before each EU summit. France is also a Huge exporter to the UK. France is NOT a friend. Neigbour, yes, Friend to Scotland, yes, Friend to the UK, Not a bit of it.
Our Friends in the EU are the Scandinavian countries and a large subset of the Netherlands through the monarchy. The rest of the original? Ireland is a neighbour and a large trading partner (for Ireland), but whilst we may be companiable, the UK and the Republic of Ireland are not "friends" in the way you allude. As for the rest? Fair weather friends with both political and social ideology which does not match the UK.
The whole reason that people voted to leave the EU is because they are not only not "friends", they are also not even trying to act like "friends".
So if turning our backs on a bunch of self serving egomaniacal wannabees is a bad thing, god help us with what a good thing is.
You see this is what enrages the Leave crowd. "Well it would all be so good if you had just shut up and left things well alone". To which the Leaver demands "define so good". Because, if you submit it to a totally honest analysis, "so good" is just not so bad that people can't stand it any more. It is not "good" in any way, shape or form. The only problem with what we are doing is that getting out of "not quite bad enough yet" is really rather painful. But those who support getting out understand that "So Good" can actually be good and not this miserable form of "not quite so bad" we have been living with.