Thursday 17 August 2017

Comings and Goings

It turns out that EU nationals will have exactly the same ease of entry to the United Kingdom after withdrawal from the European Union (and believe in that when you see it) as they have now.

Not quite that form of words has been used today. But that is clearly what the preferred form of words means.

After all, any other meaning would require the introduction of identity cards. By David Davis. Who has resigned from Parliament in the past over civil liberties.

Then again, did the vote to Leave have anything to do with the logically absurd desire for an unrestricted flow of goods, services and capital, but a greatly restricted flow of people?

Leave won in the wrong places for that to have been so.

Rather, the referendum result was the demand for a reversion to the British economic order that obtained before accession to the EU.

That is to say, before New Labour and before Thatcherism, both of which happened after that accession.

It is time for a Government that has ever really wanted to withdraw from the EU, and which has any coherent idea either how to do it or why to wish to do it.

It is time for a Prime Minister has ever really wanted to withdraw from the EU, and who has any coherent idea either how to do it or why to wish to do it.

It is time for Jeremy Corbyn.

Yes, there are people who want to shut me up.

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