In a nutshell....

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"In the coming days, perhaps as soon as Wednesday, Brexit will turn from abstract to concrete....

yet those in charge of this fateful, epochal process – and especially those who most loudly demanded it happen – seem utterly unprepared for it....

It’s as if the crew of the Titanic eyed the iceberg ahead and promptly decided to have a big squabble over whether to serve white or red....

That failing is most obvious among the Brexiteers, characterised by a refusal to own their victory and take responsibility for it. So when a voice of experience or authority dares point out the possible dangers ahead, they are either sacked, as was the fate of Michael Heseltine, attacked personally, like John Major, or else branded an “enemy of the people” who refuses to bow to the “popular will”....

Those with concerns are accused of “talking down the country” or lacking sufficient faith – as if, should Brexit make us poorer, the fault will belong to those who didn’t screw their eyes tight enough and believe. Credit to Jonn Elledge for calling this what it is: the Tinkerbell delusion....

This surely has to end with the triggering of article 50. From this moment on, the focus must be intensely practical. No more baggy rhetoric about sovereignty and “taking back control”. From now on, those who got us into this situation have to show they can get us out intact by March 2019...

That will require a major shift among the Brexiteer ministers and in Downing Street. Those close to the pre-negotiations between Britain and the remaining 27 EU states report an unwarranted hubris on the UK side that augurs ill....

Such arrogance is likely to be exposed soon...

"remainers will need to handle these next two years carefully, readying themselves for the day when the deal is done, and ensuring they have already placed two key questions in the front of the public mind: is this deal better than the set-up we had on 22 June 2016? And if it isn’t, why are we doing it?"

Sad thing is,I suspect you Brexiteers will be making us cry in 2 years' time

When do you think the plague of locusts will start?

Sad thing is,I suspect you Brexiteers will be making us cry in 2 years' time

I won't be crying. But I know you will still be moaning.

It should have started on June 24 last year.

The Bremoaners are desperate for something bad to happen, so they can be smuger than usual.

No,agreed. I doubt you "true believers" will be crying...just the majority of us in the UK.

Nah,on some occasions it can be legit to blame a group...I blame ultra nationalists for most of the mass killings that have occurred in Central/Southern Europe in recent times...Serbia,Croatia,Bosnia...Once they're all in the EU should make it unthinkable to reoccur again...

As for being negative,I thought you approved of that,from your plainly heartfelt repeated comments about immigrants

We are on a one way ticket to something worse than we had before with Brexit...simples...always the way with "scapegoat" ideologies..and no amount of silly "lefty bashing" and neo-fascistic tosh about "enemies of the people"will hide the fact that IMHO the mass of the populace will realise that sad reality in the next 2-3 years...

If you differ? Well,everyone is entitled their opinion,other than in the kinds of places (and the kinds of people who approve of it) where Judges are described as "enemies of the people" for upholding the rule of law in keeping with centuries old traditions...

Edited by legaleagle (12 Mar 2017 4.20pm)

Very much like the outlook of some of your own ideological "kith and kin",I mean...and,unlike that "kith and kin",I abhor scapegoating wherever it appears,including Stalin's Soviet Union and Daily Mail 2016 Inger la la land

Edited by legaleagle (12 Mar 2017 4.59pm)