Written by Sherelle, so possibly not the consensus view of the paper
At least she’s laying the blame for failed Brexit where it belongs: at the feet of the Tory Party. The mantra has been that it’s all the fault of Remoaners, Eurocrats, the uppity Irish.
Brexit died when Theresa May lost her parliamentary majority and invited the vile bigots of the DUP into the corridors of real power.
This the Torygraph remember and it’s not the first article they’ve run with an anti-brexit stance.
If Starmer doesn’t buck-up his ideas there is a very real risk here. The Tories will lose the next election, disappear for a year or two. Then during those couple of years there will be a lot of lobbying from big business Tory donors to rejoin the SM/CU/EU. They’ll then reappear for the c.2029 GE with media backing and a more pro-EU attitude than Starmer as he spent several years “taking back control” and “making brexit work”.
Blair was lucky to have inherited an economy that by 1997 had recovered from the mess the Tories created, Starmer won’t be so lucky in he wins in the next 2 years. With hindsight Labour were probably lucky to lose in April 1992 because if the UK crashed out of the ERM in September 1992 with Labour in power the Tory press would have eviscerated Kinnock and Labour potentially leading up to a loss in 1997.
It was doomed from the start. We refused to negotiate from the moment we enacted Article 50 and rapidly went from hard Brexit being an impossibility to it being the only way forward. How do you expect something like that to go well when the government deliberately put no effort in securing a good deal for the UK? We acted as if the EU was an enemy trying to punish us for voting to leave, despite them going above and beyond to work with us for the best interests of both sides; we were the ones causing all the strife. Brexit was doomed when those who campaigned for it chose to take the country in a direction that was about making the UK a country that worked for the rich, not one that worked for its people.
Bojo will bounce back like St Paul after a crate of red bull on the springiest trampoline ever made saying actually his original plan was the right one!!
Brexit always was doomed .. thankfully.. Only the truly moronic think otherwise
Brexit may well be doomed but that doesn’t mean the UK will be rejoining the EU any time soon.
Not really sure how Brexit can be doomed when its done/happened/over and you cant exactly un-break that particular egg. Re-joining the EU is another matter, will the powers that be be able to sell re-joining the EU to the British public, full core membership, no rebait or opt outs, Euro and Schengen – a position even the most ardent remainer was against. Doubtful.
What’s annoying is they still pretend like it could have worked with different leadership or less opposition rather than just accepting they were very wrong and take some responsibility for promoting it. It wasn’t made a “hash” of it was fundamentally unworkable without major economic damage. They simply won’t acknowledge the core trade offs.
Well they’re shit out of luck, it’s already happened.
all MSM have coordinated leaning. Boris was naive to think otherwise.
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I thought BoJo’s favourite paper was a paternity test showing a negative result
Isn’t Brexit done? I mean, Boris said so. Repeatedly. His biggest success, he gave speeches saying so when he talked about how much he’d achieved.
In which case, surely the Telegraph should be saying that Britain is doomed, because of Brexit and Boris?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/01/16/britain-going-rejoin-eu-farsooner-anyone-now-imagines/
Written by Sherelle, so possibly not the consensus view of the paper
At least she’s laying the blame for failed Brexit where it belongs: at the feet of the Tory Party. The mantra has been that it’s all the fault of Remoaners, Eurocrats, the uppity Irish.
Brexit died when Theresa May lost her parliamentary majority and invited the vile bigots of the DUP into the corridors of real power.
This the Torygraph remember and it’s not the first article they’ve run with an anti-brexit stance.
If Starmer doesn’t buck-up his ideas there is a very real risk here. The Tories will lose the next election, disappear for a year or two. Then during those couple of years there will be a lot of lobbying from big business Tory donors to rejoin the SM/CU/EU. They’ll then reappear for the c.2029 GE with media backing and a more pro-EU attitude than Starmer as he spent several years “taking back control” and “making brexit work”.
Blair was lucky to have inherited an economy that by 1997 had recovered from the mess the Tories created, Starmer won’t be so lucky in he wins in the next 2 years. With hindsight Labour were probably lucky to lose in April 1992 because if the UK crashed out of the ERM in September 1992 with Labour in power the Tory press would have eviscerated Kinnock and Labour potentially leading up to a loss in 1997.
It was doomed from the start. We refused to negotiate from the moment we enacted Article 50 and rapidly went from hard Brexit being an impossibility to it being the only way forward. How do you expect something like that to go well when the government deliberately put no effort in securing a good deal for the UK? We acted as if the EU was an enemy trying to punish us for voting to leave, despite them going above and beyond to work with us for the best interests of both sides; we were the ones causing all the strife. Brexit was doomed when those who campaigned for it chose to take the country in a direction that was about making the UK a country that worked for the rich, not one that worked for its people.
Bojo will bounce back like St Paul after a crate of red bull on the springiest trampoline ever made saying actually his original plan was the right one!!
Brexit always was doomed .. thankfully.. Only the truly moronic think otherwise
Brexit may well be doomed but that doesn’t mean the UK will be rejoining the EU any time soon.
Not really sure how Brexit can be doomed when its done/happened/over and you cant exactly un-break that particular egg. Re-joining the EU is another matter, will the powers that be be able to sell re-joining the EU to the British public, full core membership, no rebait or opt outs, Euro and Schengen – a position even the most ardent remainer was against. Doubtful.
What’s annoying is they still pretend like it could have worked with different leadership or less opposition rather than just accepting they were very wrong and take some responsibility for promoting it. It wasn’t made a “hash” of it was fundamentally unworkable without major economic damage. They simply won’t acknowledge the core trade offs.
Well they’re shit out of luck, it’s already happened.
all MSM have coordinated leaning. Boris was naive to think otherwise.