Re: Customs Union - just what is the problem?
Originally Posted by
JBR
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The trouble is that we don't have, and since Maggie was stabbed in the back, a strong PM.
Both Cameron and May have caused this. Yes, Cameron was undoubtedly weak, but unfortunately May is just as weak. On the other hand it could be that she is, as has been suggested, a closet remainiac and is not pushing very hard for that reason.
I do admire the East Europeans. Not only are they sticking up for themselves, but they are not afraid of doing so despite them being nett recipients in the EU's financial system.
We, on the other hand, are nett contributors yet our weak government is still too afraid to assert themselves.
Come back Maggie, or even Churchill!
It's weakness but wrse than that ....it's arrogance and a complete detachment from the electorate.....just like the media.
It's why we voted Brexit.
The UK's politcians' arrogance was one of being seduced by power....being at the big table with the 'big boys'.......thinking THEY were important, they called the shots.
Trouble is we were being used and being fleeced.
All the while the ordinary electorate were being ignored, preached at ,were frustrated and getting angry......and losing out!
The UK slavishly followed and implemented to the extreme every EU rule, law and diktat and desperately wanted to prove that we too were good Europeans......
All the while the ordinary electorate were being ignored, preached at, were frustrated and angry ......and losing out!
Our politicians thought THEY knew best and the ordinary electorate, frustrated and angry as they were should just put up and shut up.
Then we had a referendum.......with Remain supported by The Government and EVERY political party except one, Remain supported by most newspapers, all TV media, all the 'Experts', the Luvvies and the Education establishment and all Govt institutions and organisations........
The anger, frustration, the sense of detachment and losing out was too much for the people to bear and the rest is history.......
Power to the People!
The smaller European nations do not have the illusions of grandeur that our UK politicians are guilty of........THEY look after those that matter......
Their own people.......LAKOTA!