Or at least that’s what Brexit advocates want to delude themselves and fool others into believing. The one place they never look when trying to find who’s to blame for Brexit’s failure is the mirror.
Perhaps their silliest excuse is blaming me…and those of a similar opinion: If only we’d shut up saying how bad Brexit is then it would be good, they tell us. Or is it the European Union’s fault? After all, it never accepted during Brexit negotiations ‘Britain holds all the cards’.
I did mention in a recent letter that even ‘Brextremists’ now struggle to claim genuine gains from leaving the EU. So ‘Brexit benefits’ fibbery is replaced by falsehood about the difficulty of rejoining. To then blame others for their failure completes their dishonesty hat-trick.
About as close to the truth Brextremists get is when – like rats in a sack – they blame each other. So, for example, Nigel Farage did admit in May 2023 “Brexit’s failed”. But added: “We’ve not delivered on Brexit and the Tories have let us down very, very badly.”
But Boris Johnson was a last-minute Brexit convert. Eurosceptics such as Mr Farage spent decades bellyaching about the EU – but still hadn’t a clue what to do next once they’d got what they’d been campaigning for.
European Movement UK has a business-focussed ‘Action Day’ on June 21-22. Local firms are urged to sign an online petition calling for EU trade improvements at europeanmovement.co.uk/business-report-petition
Peter Brown, Cleckheaton