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“I think “Brexit means Brexit” was supposed to convey the idea that the UK would be leaving the EU lock, stock and barrel.”
Yes there were various scenarios put forward by various people as their best guess of the UK’s future relationship with the EU. None of them had any authority and they probably had as much idea of the eventual outcome as I had.
As I have said before, there were no promises about the shape of any deal before the referendum. (Indeed, nobody in authority suspected in their wildest dreams that the vote would turn out as it did, so there was no need). My view, as I have expressed frequently, is that voters who voted to leave should have expected that the UK would be in the same situation as any other non-EU country after Brexit. There were many reasons that people voted to leave but all of them involved being released from the conditions that EU membership imposed. It was foolish to suspect, for example, that membership of the free market and/or customs union could be maintained without free movement of people. It was similarly foolish to believe that membership of the free market could be maintained without succumbing to rulings by the ECJ. Nobody led me to believe that any such situation would result. In fact it never crossed my mind that we would be enthralled to the EU or any of its institutions after we had left. Anybody wishing anything other than that should have voted to remain.
Yes there were various scenarios put forward by various people as their best guess of the UK’s future relationship with the EU. None of them had any authority and they probably had as much idea of the eventual outcome as I had.
As I have said before, there were no promises about the shape of any deal before the referendum. (Indeed, nobody in authority suspected in their wildest dreams that the vote would turn out as it did, so there was no need). My view, as I have expressed frequently, is that voters who voted to leave should have expected that the UK would be in the same situation as any other non-EU country after Brexit. There were many reasons that people voted to leave but all of them involved being released from the conditions that EU membership imposed. It was foolish to suspect, for example, that membership of the free market and/or customs union could be maintained without free movement of people. It was similarly foolish to believe that membership of the free market could be maintained without succumbing to rulings by the ECJ. Nobody led me to believe that any such situation would result. In fact it never crossed my mind that we would be enthralled to the EU or any of its institutions after we had left. Anybody wishing anything other than that should have voted to remain.
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