Wednesday 30 December 2020

The Long Game

David Cameron had the EU's permission to hold the referendum. You only have to say that for it to be obvious.

If Remain had won, then the placation of Euroscepticism would no longer have been considered necessary. Within 10 or even five years, we would have been in Schengen and the euro.

If Leave had won, then another 10-year process would have begun. Pretending to leave, while remaining subject to the State Aid rules, would have ensured that nothing had got any better for the left behind areas. That would eventually have brought about reaccession, complete with Schengen and the euro.

Tomorrow, we shall begin that process. But nothing more than that. This is the long game, and we are being played. Still, I am the Independent parliamentary candidate for North West Durham. What are you doing?

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