That's quite a statement. None?On the one hand, I appreciate your circumspection. On the other, I don't follow: the scope for exploration of potential seems narrow to me, unless we are blithe about the risks to the Union, and our relationship to our nearest trading bloc. What ought we to do, to fully explore the potential of Brexit?Bad phrasing on my part, and thanks for explaining that your take is that folk who say this often use it as a rhetorical precursor that seems to be given no weight in their actual reasoning.I'd agree with that. But to the ears of Brexit-supporters acknowledgements of the EU's faults by 'remainers' are always going to sound like platitudes if - even so - they are still against Brexit. Perhaps this is why so many people sound to you like they are 'deeply entrenched'?
None here, on the evidence of 6 years of anguished bickering about it.
The scope for the exploration of the potential gains from brexit? Goodness knows. There aren't any in my industry apart from for the big boys, as it pushes the cost differential even further to their advantage. In science and tech from escaping the EU's apparently stultifying 'precautionary principle' - albeit for the sacrifice of co-operation in terms of both finance and expertise - in agriculture and fisheries towards something more much more sustainable than the wretched CAP/CFP. I read recently that the UK is apparently already gaining ground in terms of the application of AI to agriculture. In services for more nimble regulation, with greater and more immediate relevance to changing markets. This is something for sectoral experts to work through. I'm just a shopkeeper, albeit one who believes in self-determination, and in the accountability of my political masters.
I see nothing much coming from this inept government, which seems intent upon steamrollering us with even more regulation and weasling top-down control than we had from the EU. But then this government only has two more years before it is laid accountable at the ballot box. And, dare I say, David Frost, love him or hate him, is at least out there demanding that it gets its act together and starts doing something.
I was never amongst those who celebrated brexit. I see it as a massive failure of diplomacy and foresight, and as the result of a stubborn adherence to a political ideology, a failure, above all, of the EU 'project', and it is the EU project with which I have greatest issue. Brexit, like the evisceration of Greece, the laying low of the Med-fringe economies, the spiteful austerity, the iniquitous enrichment of Germany, and the emboldenment of Putin's Russia, is merely a consequence.