\n Or at least that\u2019s what Brexit advocates want to delude themselves and fool others into believing. The one place they never look when trying to find who\u2019s to blame for Brexit\u2019s failure is the mirror.\n<\/p>\n
\n Perhaps their silliest excuse is blaming me…and those of a similar opinion: If only we\u2019d shut up saying how bad Brexit is then it would be good, they tell us. Or is it the European Union\u2019s fault? After all, it never accepted during Brexit negotiations \u2018Britain holds all the cards\u2019.\n<\/p>\n
\n I did mention in a recent letter that even \u2018Brextremists\u2019 now struggle to claim genuine gains from leaving the EU. So \u2018Brexit benefits\u2019 fibbery is replaced by falsehood about the difficulty of rejoining. To then blame others for their failure completes their dishonesty hat-trick.\n<\/p>\n
\n 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 \u201cBrexit\u2019s failed\u201d. But added: \u201cWe\u2019ve not delivered on Brexit and the Tories have let us down very, very badly.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n But Boris Johnson was a last-minute Brexit convert. Eurosceptics such as Mr Farage spent decades bellyaching about the EU – but still hadn\u2019t a clue what to do next once they\u2019d got what they\u2019d been campaigning for.\n<\/p>\n
\n European Movement UK has a business-focussed \u2018Action Day\u2019 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\n<\/p>\n
\n Peter Brown, Cleckheaton<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Or at least that\u2019s what Brexit advocates want to delude themselves and fool others into believing. The one…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,748,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-192588","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-brexit","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european","13":"tag-european-union","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114700619924771371","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}