Leaving the EU may be a catastrophic mistake

…but it’s one we should make in order to learn its lessons and I fear an ugly backlash from large swaths of the 52% if Brexit is stopped against their will.

However, as far as I’m aware, MPs will get a vote on the final deal. If constituents lobby their MPs and MPs feel it right to vote against the deal, then I feel it’s perfectly justifiable and democratic to stop Brexit under these circumstances. But only if we can justify stopping it. If the deal looks terrible and leaves us in a detrimental and precarious state, then it’s completely understandable that MPs vote down the final deal in order to avoid catastrophic consequences.

Do we really want to put another EU-vote to the British people? They voted out the first time, it’s likely to be close or the same outcome and could drag on for another 10, 20, 30 years, and that would be the worst outcome for everyone. I say on this one, leave it to the MPs, lobby your MP and advise others to do the same.

There’ll be elections soon where we can let the politicians know how we feel. We can also go on social media voicing our opinions and write an article for our local paper. This is what I’ll be doing once I’ve seen the details of the final deal. I’m afraid I’m not overly optimistic that the electorate would vote down the final deal even if it was terrible for the UK. Our politics is unreliable and that’s down to years of neglect, corruption and a failing political system backed up by inadequate mainstream journalism. I digress.

Although, if voting down the final deal leads to a no-deal scenario and crashing out of the EU, it will be interesting to see how the UK government responds to such a situation. Would it run back to the EU and beg for an extension and for re-negotiations, or would it battle on with a no-deal Brexit and the legal consequences and political fallout that will inevitably follow?

Alternatively, the final deal could look decent and pave the way for an opportunity to re-invent the UK. I’m not sure what a reinvention would look like under the government of the Conservative party, but I’d guess something like the status quo, or some form of historical status quo; a Victorian throwback possibly?

Either way, I know of a better Brexit for the British people and it requires a left-wing negotiating team and one sympathetic with the EU. A soft-Brexit, or an ‘almost no-change Brexit’. This would ensure the continuity of business and industry relationships between the UK and the EU, and would give the next government the opportunity to fix the problems wrongfully blamed on the EU and EU migrants.

For example; investing in local communities and public services, building more homes and raising wages, improving equality and quality-of-life for all citizens especially those who feel left-behind. If we do these things then people can see for themselves all along it was the UK government who were to blame for the deterioration, the will of politicians to inflict damage on our communities and blame it on the EU and migrants.

We can under EU law control migration to a level more pleasing to UK citizens who are more focused on reducing the numbers rather than the positives of migration. We can under EU law make our own rules and govern ourselves. We can under EU law fund our public services properly and build enough homes to house everyone. We can under EU law produce more goods and services here in the UK creating jobs and opportunities. The EU has been blamed for the damage caused by the inadequacies of the Conservative government and that’s what led us to Brexit.

But soon Brexiteers will no longer be able to blame the EU once we’ve left, all eyes will be focused firmly on the UK government of the day. I say, your move.

If we can get a left-wing government into power at the next opportunity sometime within the next 4 years, I believe we can make Brexit a success and one day we may re-join the EU, and even embrace both the Euro and Schengen — a full-EU breakfast on ‘Bre-entry’.

It’s a long, winding road.