Okay, I...really have to bump this thread. Reason: someone made the most stupid, ridiculous comments I've ever came across:
Dominic Raab: we are, and I hadn't quite understood the full extend of this, but if you look at the UK and you look at how we trade in goods, we're particularly reliant on the Dover-Calais crossing.
Raab made this comment in a speech on something different (something of the ICT branch). It's pretty...it's mindboggingly stupid.
Why? Well...because Dominic isn't a random brexiteer passing by Dover and noticing the enormous industry of goods being on- and offloaded all the time. Neither is he a random guy with a map, coming to the insight that the closest distance between an island and the main land is likely where the best trade route might be. He isn't a random economist who somehow slept through his entire career either.
Dominic is(1) part of the government. He's a minister. More in detail: he's the brexit minister.
I kid you not:
the brexit minister had only recently learned the true importance of the sea trade with Europe!!!
...I'm just lost for words here. Two freaking years of bickering, and then you've got this clown coming along who accidentally exposes this whole brexit thing as the scam all the bremainders only assumed it was.
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(1) or 'was', by the time you read this, because Jezus Christ..."political suicide" is an underestimation compared to this situation.