Beyond the Left that has uniquely always been opposed to the EU, all coverage of Brexit is now of the "What Killed Brexit?" variety, taking it as read that something has done so.
Or else it is the increasingly hysterical effusions of Fleet Street's extremely few true believers even that Brexit ought to happen, still less that it ever will.
Is this the work of the metropolitan elite? No, 16 million people, 48 per cent of the vote, is not an elite. It is just the losing side in a close referendum, and it ought not be flattered as anything more than that.
But that was only the most recent referendum. The next one is coming. Between, in one box, Theresa May's deal to stay in the Single Market and the Customs Union, and, in the other box, simply staying in the EU altogether.
We ought to be open to advice from the Left that has uniquely always been opposed to the EU; even Enoch Powell was initially pro-Market. But it is clear enough that the only thing worse than being in the EU would be something like the EEA, taking the rules without making the rules.
Watch out for most or all of the supposedly anti-EU Right's claim that this "Norway Option", or whatever they wanted to call it, was just the ticket, just fine and dandy, just what the doctor ordered.
That is because they have never really been against the EU at all, and they thought that all opposition to it was "Loony Left" until the very late 1980s. This is going to flush them all out. Not before time.
Or else it is the increasingly hysterical effusions of Fleet Street's extremely few true believers even that Brexit ought to happen, still less that it ever will.
Is this the work of the metropolitan elite? No, 16 million people, 48 per cent of the vote, is not an elite. It is just the losing side in a close referendum, and it ought not be flattered as anything more than that.
But that was only the most recent referendum. The next one is coming. Between, in one box, Theresa May's deal to stay in the Single Market and the Customs Union, and, in the other box, simply staying in the EU altogether.
We ought to be open to advice from the Left that has uniquely always been opposed to the EU; even Enoch Powell was initially pro-Market. But it is clear enough that the only thing worse than being in the EU would be something like the EEA, taking the rules without making the rules.
Watch out for most or all of the supposedly anti-EU Right's claim that this "Norway Option", or whatever they wanted to call it, was just the ticket, just fine and dandy, just what the doctor ordered.
That is because they have never really been against the EU at all, and they thought that all opposition to it was "Loony Left" until the very late 1980s. This is going to flush them all out. Not before time.
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