"But We Would Have Accepted A Remain Result"?

Speak for yourself. What do you mean by "accepted it"? The people who think that the EU only went to the bad at some point in the very late 1980s might have said, "Oh, well, that's that, then." But not those of us who had been right all along. 

If you would just have "accepted" a Remain result at that constitutionally meaningless opinion poll in 2016, then you never really believed in Brexit at all. I do not agree with people who take the same view in reverse, such as Jo Swinson and Caroline Lucas. But I entirely respect them.

The people who think that the EU only went to the bad at some point in the very late 1980s like to claim that they were deceived, and that it was only ever supposed to have been "a free trade area" called "the Common Market". They are, frankly, liars.

I am a Brexiteer to my core, but there was no deceit. No one in any kind of position ever said that it was "a free trade area" called "the Common Market", and its true character was made clear from the moment that the Attlee Government refused to consider joining it at the start on the grounds that it was "the blueprint for a federal state".

That view on the part of its opponents continued to be articulated all the way up to the 1975 referendum by the likes of Enoch Powell and Tony Benn, and all the way up to the 1983 General Election by the likes of Benn and Michael Foot. The other side never contradicted it. They just said that the federal state was a good thing. 

They were wrong. But they never deceived anyone. Find the specific lie. You would have done better than every specialist in the field if you did. If you voted Yes in 1975, or Conservative in 1983, or both, then you need to face up to what you did. You were not deceived into some "Common Market". That simply never happened.

And if you would just have "accepted" a Remain result at that constitutionally meaningless opinion poll in 2016, then you never really believed in Brexit at all. Another hung Parliament is coming, however, and we need our people to hold the balance of power in it. A new party is now in the process of registration.

I will stand for Parliament here at North West Durham even if I can raise only the deposit, which I could do by going pretty overdrawn, although that was not how I was brought up. I would still prefer to raise the £10,000 necessary to mount a serious campaign, but I am no longer making my candidacy conditional on having done so. In any event, please email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com. Very many thanks.