Credit: Shutterstock photoAs I noted in my latest article, Brits Want a Hard Brexit, the results of our tracking poll show those responding overwhelmingly favour a hard Brexit from the EU. This sentiment was supported by the many comments we received in our poll, some of which were included in the article.
In an effort to give a balanced view as we have no bias in our poll and only report the results, the following comments from a survey participant makes a case for a soft Brexit. Feel free to agree or disagree by scrolling down the page and posting your opinion kin our poll.
There is barely a mandate to leave. It was 2 percent either way and only advisory. Our elected representatives are the sovereign voice and always were. They are 3/4 pro EU and the Lords 7/8th also.
Normally in more advanced countries a major constitutional change requires 60 percent or 2/3 and a turnout threshold. This was nowhere near and was only achieved by limiting the ballot, removing the people most affected. 3 million UK tax payers from the EU countries, also 16-17 year olds as in Scotland, plus many Brits abroad, all not allowed the vote.
That narrow result in no way sanctions the UK to become a lunatic enterprise, sailing the ocean waves, disregarding the largest richest market in the world on our doorstep, (growing faster than USA and soon to grow further with more countries) and search the corrupt, the dictatorships, the religious extremists, the poorest in the world, the culturally different and those expensive distances away and fail to replace what we already have, especially when many are already in trading blocks or in discussion with the EU, or are one of 50 odd countries with EU free trade already.
These efforts will tie up government, parliament, the civil service, many business people for many years and for what? They could have worked together for an industrial renaissance but instead we are paying hundreds of commercial lawyers thousands a day each, plus civil servants, plus bank of England putting billions into markets to stop them collapsing. It's a waste of human capital and money and there's no savings. Just a mixture of xenophobia and petty nationalism unleashed.
The country has taken Leave of its senses and every CEO has been calling to stay in the Single Market on something like the Norway model. A more extreme and damaging outcome could never be drawn from that stupid,, narrow and rigged vote.
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Jay Meisler, founder
Global Traders Association
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