I’m not sure whether to see the meeting reported here as a good sign or not. “An extraordinary cross-party summit bringing together leading leavers and remainers – including Michael Gove and senior members of Keir Starmer’s shadow cabinet – has been held in high secrecy to address the failings of Brexit and how to remedy them in the national interest.” On one hand, we can take the fact that MPs are beginning to have such meetings as a sign that, on some level, they all know that Brexit was a catastrophic mistake which should never have been made. On the other hand, the Guardian article also reports hardline Outists such as Michael Gove, one of the chairs of the meeting, will never openly admit that Brexit was a mistake, and that the possibility of rejoining the EU was not discussed. “The summit papers referred to the need to move on from ‘the current mix of antagonism and nostalgia to excitement about what the future could bring for the UK and for Europe’… For those such as Gove who campaigned to leave the EU, there is also a clear interest in ensuring Brexit is not viewed as a failure over the long term.” In other words, p’tahks like Gove wanted the meeting to be about dressing Brexit up as some kind of success, so that they don’t have to admit their lies have done almost irreparable damage to the UK’s global standing.
That’s what frustrates me: every sensible, rational person can see that Brexit was an act of idiocy, that the 2016 referendum was ‘won’ based on lies, and that the only way out of this calamity would be to rejoin the EU as soon as possible. Yet because that would cost the careers and reputations of powerful politicians like Gove, they will never allow that truth to be openly admitted. They will argue black is white that Brexit was somehow good for the country, and try to shut those of us who still oppose Brexit as ‘antagonistic’. Well, I say it’s high time we got a grip, called the Outists to account and started the journey back into the EU. While the fact that they are having meetings like this is a sign that, deep down, they know the reality of Brexit, it’s time that they were forced to openly admit that they deliberately mislead the country into voting for something manifestly counter to it’s best interests.
The Ill-Informed Ramblings of a Cripple 
Blah blah blah heard it all before. Brexit was not a mistake nor was it based on lies, it was based on genuine facts as well.
Brexit has not ruined anything, it is Neoliberalism that has ruined everything with its failure to sort out rip off energy companies, rip off rent and poverty pay. Joining the EU will change nothing and it will be the same rubbish as usual.
It is neoliberalism that has to go, not Brexit.
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Keep your moronic, baseless comments to yourself child. Brexit was a catastrophic mistake based on obvious lies; that is clear to anyone capable of thought. It must be reversed. Now be a good little idiot and go troll somewhere else.
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What lies was Brexit based upon Matthew? Please elaborate because to make infantile remarks clearly will not convince me that Brexit was a mistake nor that Bremain/ Brejoin is the answer.
The problem is Neoliberalism upon which both the EU and the Tories are based and both of them need to be removed from power.
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You are in no position whatsoever to accuse anyone else of making ‘infantile remarks’ The entire premise of the Leave campaign was based on manifest lies, such as the one about giving 350 million quid a week to the NHS, or the one about holding all the cards in any exit negotiation.
You speak of neoliberalism, but do you even know what that is? The entire point of Brexit was to break the UK free of EU regulations so that the most severe, sickening form of capitalism can be imposed on the UK. Outside the EU, our consumer and human rights are at stake; they’re already beginning to be eroded. Capitalists can now doo as they please and we are stripped of any defence. If you truly oppose neoliberalism, you would oppose Brexit as vehemently as I do.
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You are in no position to call people moronic at all because you have no idea what the EU is.
The Leave campaign that suggested that we put £350 million into the NHS was not a lie but a genuine fact. We should not be spending billions of taxpayers money on fat bureaucrats in the EU but spending it on our own public services. Before Brexit, both Tory and Lib Dem started cut billions of taxpayers’ money to the public sector but increased spending on EU membership.
Duh, of course I know what neoliberalism is and that means deregulating companies and privatising public services which is what the EU has done to Greece, Spain and Portugal and bailing out failed banks in the eurozone. We had neoliberalism before Brexit after we joined the EU. Good riddance to these regulations- regulations such as the free movement of capital and labour can definitely be thrown into the bonfire, not to mention anti-state aid policies.
Capitalists cannot do as they please because they can no longer employ migrant scabs from Eastern Europe for low wages nor outsource jobs to Eastern Europe. Also we can have the chance to renationalise our energy and public transport- don’t expect the Conservatives to do that- which are all under foreign ownership in the EU. ScotRail was owned by the Dutch company Abellio but now is owned by the Scottish government and the same with South Eastern rail.
If you oppose Brexit, you are a buttlicker to the vulture capitalists in the EU who have ruined the economies of Greece, Spain and Portugal.
If you support Brexit, then you support the rights and wishes of the British people to have control over our resources but sadly you will not have that under the Conservatives since they are the ones who took us into this loathsome EU, which Old Labour originally opposed.
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You’re nothing but a troll parroting bullshit you barely understand from tabloids. To call obvious, proven lies ‘genuine facts’ really is taking the piss. I had every right to call you moronic because I obviously have a far better understanding of the EU than you. You are the one who was fooled into stripping the right of British people to live and work across an entire continent; you’re thee one who stripped us of the ability to trade with our closest neighbours; the one who voted to endanger our human and consumer rights, opening the door to the most sickening form of capitalism. Go troll somewhere else.
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