tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4411161795798360588.post8228198521537644463..comments2024-03-26T09:38:39.888+00:00Comments on Borthlas: Accidentally cancelling Brexit?John Dixonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07447224248021209852noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4411161795798360588.post-75215661835042759172017-12-05T23:59:48.477+00:002017-12-05T23:59:48.477+00:00After the BREXIT vote we were told that we would n...After the BREXIT vote we were told that we would now control our borders.That people had voted to control immigration.Now we hear that the objective is to have a border in Northern Ireland that is frictionless and there will be no border controls. It is clear that the leaders of the leave campaign had a ragtag of arguments that had no coherence. We are now living with the consequence of a referendum that both sides thought would result in us remaining and the consequences of a leave vote were notvexplored in any detail.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4411161795798360588.post-88589134637176587702017-12-05T15:12:51.719+00:002017-12-05T15:12:51.719+00:00As a lawyer, one of the most vivid and lurid spect...As a lawyer, one of the most vivid and lurid spectacles you experience is the total collapse, failure and demolition of one side of the argument. It has a Gothic fascination about it, like the fall of the House of Usher or Dracula disintegrating when Van Helsing throws open the curtains to let in sunlight. It has happened to me and my case, and I have watched it happen to my opponents as well. <br />Truly spectacular is the case that dies from its own flaws, contradictions, non-sequiturs and folly. The flames take hold, the timbers creak and crash as if by magic. It dies, it is not killed. It is Gotterdammerung. There was no outside Agency.<br />So with Brexit.<br />The £350m, dismissing the best trading bloc in the world (500m people, a civilised and enlightened system), the notion that a USA led by Trump would give us more valuable deals, and now the claim that the UK needed to and would get back control of its borders.<br />Despite this, we cannot just sit back and watch the flames consume May, Farage and the rest. We must look after Wales. Somebody must<br />- remind Welsh farmers (and the rest of the Welsh) that farmers need the EU<br />- do much much better when EU money comes to be spent in the Valleys<br />- blow the UKIP arguments away.<br />Labour cannot do these things. The existing Plaid leaders bleat and wring their hands but do no better than Labour.<br />Wales will get a General Election or Second Referendum on the terms of Brexit and must finish Brexit off. But who will fight this fight? And then rebuild Wales on the smouldering ruins of Brexit? <br />Jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05937342201811857738noreply@blogger.com