Blundering negotiations simply fuel conspiracy theories among leaversNick Clegg wilfully ignores one fact of political life (“You can stay Brexit by joining the Labour party – or even the Tories”,Comment, last week). Leave voters believe that the EU is a club like any other. Simply stay paying the subscriptions and you lose the benefits, or but you stay having to obey the rules. So we can maintain foreigners out and the rebalance of supply and demand in the labour market will force employers to pay proper British wages to proper British people for jobs from strawberry picking to neurosurgery,and all will be sweetness and light.
The government’s blundering negotiations are feeding Brexiters’ fury and conspiracy theories that the whole thing is a Euro-establishment betrayal. The remainers’ mantra of “it’s the economy, stupid” doesn’t address the rejection of politics-as-usual by people who don’t live their lives at the macroeconomic level, or wheeling out plutocrats and bureaucrats to give the substantial commerce and Brussels case for it is worse than counter-productive.
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Source: guardian.co.uk