DC on Brexit

David Cameron has said that the consequences to date of the Brexit vote have not been as bad as he feared they would be.

In remarks which have been gleefully repeated by some Brexit supporters he was recorded at the World Economic Forum in Davos saying that the Leave vote was "a mistake not a disaster".

Mr Cameron called the 2016 referendum on the UK's membership of the EU, campaigned for Remain in and resigned as Prime Minister after the Leave side won.

"As I keep saying, it's a mistake not a disaster," he was heard saying in a conversation with steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal. "It's turned out less badly than we first thought. But it's still going to be difficult."

Comments

Jim said…
it was always going to be difficult, over 40 years of integration can't be undone overnight. We knew that from the get go.
9:06 pm
Chris Whiteside said…
Agreed. I seem to recall writing a very similar comment in the letters page of the Whitehaven News a couple of weeks ago.
9:42 pm
Jim said…
I seem to recall writing many, at the time of the vote, on this very blog
10:10 pm
Chris Whiteside said…
Yes, absolutely fair comment, you did indeed. And a fair number of other Leave supporters could make similar claims.

Both of us were far more nuanced and realistic in the views we expressed both at the time of the vote and subsequently, than many of those on both sides. But there were others on both sides who can say likewise.
9:07 am
Jim said…
I remember the early days of Flexcit, the first question asked was what do you want? - this got us nowhere, as we just could not agree.

so we took a break, had a coffee, so to speak and tried again, this time we went for the "what is possible, and politically do-able?"


This actually produced many, far better, conversations.

I think that is where the current leaders are struggling, they keep asking the wrong question.
6:52 pm
Chris Whiteside said…
Something in that, I fear. The main question far too many people seem to be obsessed with is "how can I prove that I was right all along in the way I voted" rather than "how do we make Brexit produce the best outcome for Britain?"
12:29 am
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