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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2021-02-11 12:00 pm
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[personal profile] danieldwilliam 2021-02-11 02:47 pm (UTC)(link)
I expect the EU will be asking us to honour our promises every couple of months for the next four years.

What the outcome of that is I don't know but I can see a situation where it goes badly wrong for the Conservative Party.
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[personal profile] danieldwilliam 2021-02-11 03:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Eventually if you keep not fulfilling treaty obligations the other side abrogates the treaty - which would be suboptimal for anyone living in the UK who likes to eat food.

What I'm wondering at is whether the Tory Party can succeed over the next 4 years in *pretending* that the treaty they've signed isn't responsible for the difficulties actual businesses are experiencing or that the difficulties are not real and whether, if they fail at that, that will have any significant political consequences.

If voters decide that they belief the businesses impacted by the current Brexit agreement are really suffering and our government is to blame that's a very different situation than if they think the EU is to blame or that properly run businesses don't have any problems.
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[personal profile] channelpenguin 2021-02-12 10:23 am (UTC)(link)
If a person is someone who believed that lots of the UK's problems were the EU's fault, enough to vote for Brexit and vote Tory to ensure that Brexit, then I can't see that person doing anything other than doubling down and keep blaming the big bad EU, rather than blame the people they voted for.
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Worst Case Option 1

[personal profile] dewline 2021-02-11 09:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Putin-Brexiteer Alliance made explicit? And armed?