As with another self-inflicted economic injury in the 1920s, Britain is struggling under a burden that could be reversed
that implementing the next stage of the bureaucracy associated with Brexit would be an “act of self-harm”. I did not make that up.opportunities he has the sisyphean task of searching for such opportunities. One of the few he is reported to have come up with is the chance to abandon EU rules on the manufacture of vacuum cleaners, thereby making them more powerful and less environmentally friendly. I am not making that up either.
As the saying goes, “those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad”. When the Conservative chairman of the Commons defence committee, Tobias Ellwood,that the answer to repairing the economic damage the UK has inflicted on itself, as well as to the otherwise intractable problem of the Northern Ireland protocol, would be to rejoin the single market, he was howled down by his fellow Tory MPs. And the Labour party is being utterly craven in refusing to address the Brexit issue head on.
He said that at no stage, despite all her frustrations with the EU and her many battles did Thatcher ever want to leave the EU. Unfortunately, her soi-disant Eurosceptic disciples misunderstood or misrepresented her opposition to the centripetal tendencies of the EU.