Leave lies analysed

Yes I know Gove said worryingly that people have had enough of experts (obviously just stabbing others in the back is somehow better?) but here Professor Michael Dougan, leading EU lawyer goes through the Leave campaign lies and reveals that deception happened on an ‘industrial scale’.

Some are saying ‘why bother raking this up?’ even though it happened just over a week ago; but when the people who voted Leave realise that what they were promised was not possible, and was never possible, and that the people lying to them (Murdoch, Tories, UKIP et al) there will be hell to pay. And beyond the current racist strife, society and democracy will crumble even further.

But either way, as Michael Dougan goes further, it’s a difficult political road ahead…he details some of the possible outcomes, but the idea that ‘Great’ Britain is going to rise above when the US and China are sceptical or sarcastic about the UK market being worth it.

And I’ve heard comparisons to Iceland – remember that’s only 300,000 people, despite winning at the Euros. Very different animal, was never going to be a big market, but even a 60 million+ country is short change to these big trading blocks. The UK just went out the Exit door, and can’t get back in – unless it decides to not invoke Article 50. Invoking Article 50 will be political suicide for anyone who does it, either in the short term or increasingly in the long term as the aforementioned people work out they’ve been cheated. I think the current political upheaval is nothing compared to the years to come, governments will come and go in quick succession.

It’s why I don’t think Gove will last long, the first people in leadership elections never do, but when it becomes clear that what he and his friends promised cannot happen, and that leaving Europe is all negatives with little upside…well. He’s toast. He’s already losing ground, and on his way to become the new Heseltine or Geoffrey Howe.

All of this, it’s like someone is doing an experiment to work out if they could get the country back to the mid 1970’s. Maybe that’s why I’ve been listening to Ronnie Hazlehurst, Paul Simon and watching Camberwick Green?