Exactly. This analysis sums up the Brexiteers approach very well, and also explains why their project is doomed. They cannot achieve, and do not want, a consensus around which the country can unite. (View Post)

The public have tuned out - I've lost count of the number of people who have told me they have stopped following the news because its all about Brexit and they find it immensely tedious. Most people … (View Post)

The referendum gave leavers an unexpected and never-to-be-repeated opportunity to do what most of them have dedicated their career to doing, namely leave the EU. And had they put forward the kind of … (View Post)

The EU is not going to do anything which allows Johnson to claim victory. (View Post)

Past UK governments without exception (in the modern era anyway) have sought to persuade people of the rightness of their policies and try to create national unity around shared goals and aspirations… (View Post)