The Mail on Sunday may not be the favourite warm day read of all who visit this blog, but this opinion poll data from Survation (who have a good track record right now) that they published today is interesting and pretty much self-explanatory:
So, soft Brexit it quite emphatically is.
As, of course, people were led to believe was what was on offer a year ago.
So let's be clear that when Tory Eurosceptics talk of civil revolt if people do not get hard Brexit they are talking utter nonsense.
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I for one hope that this issue rips the Tories apart and makes another general election more possible.
I’m sick of this phony situation that we are in now to be honest. We seem to have gone from interregnum to another.
Most people don’t really give the EU any thought at all, they never did. A very loud minority are obsessed by it, but they have a unified reason why.
So we had a referendum about an issue nobody really cared about and the result was a very narrow majority to leave.
But now we have to define what we want to leave and what we are going to replace it with and low and behold all those obsessives who demanded a referendum have left the scene. Where are the likes of Farage, Johnson, Gove, Hannan etc. Oh they are sniping from the sidelines for sure but where are the constructive ideas?
I know civil servants involved in the process (or drafted in against their will) – they don’t even know what they are supposed to be doing. There is no guidance from ministers. This isn’t a specific example as I don’t want to put any friends at risk but I’ve been told that they are only just putting together teams to look at how it may impact on farming. Yes that is right, an area of the economy hugely reliant on EU funds, migrant labour, import/export of product and they are only just looking at it now. We are leaving in 20 months!
As all this becomes clearer over the next 18 months I hope enough people swallow their pride and say “STOP”. We either pause this and do it properly or we just say we aren’t doing it, we can’t get anywhere near as good a deal as we have now.
The impact on farming is dire
As it is on food generally
I am doing some work in this area right now – not sure what it will come to as yet though
On the Customs Union question, the questions was recently asked in a different way in other EU countries.
i.e.
Who should have the power to make our Trade Deals?
Your own country
The EU
Neither
Both
Apart from respondents in GER and HOL, ‘your own country’ was the top answer. So the majority of people in the EU don’t want to be in the Customs Union it seems.
Surveys – it all depends how you ask ’em.
Most people say they wanted a free holiday in Barbados each year if asked
It’s the attached conditions that matter
Free is not always free
Nor is freedoms from the Customs Union free