Sunday, April 7, 2019

I was a strong Brexiteer. Now we must swallow our pride and think again.

- I was a strong Brexiteer. Now we must swallow our pride and think again | openDemocracy
Peter Oborne writes here in his personal capacity:
- There’s zero chance of a sensible Brexit amidst the pandemonium and hysteria at Westminster just now
- Take Tusk’s offer
- The economic arguments for Brexit have been destroyed by a series of shattering blows
- Britain’s departure from the EU will be as great a disaster for our country as the over-mighty unions were in the 1960s and 1970s
- When hedge-fund managers and the Communist Party see eye-to-eye on any question, it’s time to be concerned
- Well done Britain for challenging remote oligarchs based in Brussels
- The European Union is not a dictatorship
- The UK will be weaker and more isolated
- Like almost everybody else I underestimated the importance of the Good Friday Agreement
- Phrases such as 'vassal state', 'empire' and 'supplicant' do not even remotely characterise our relation with Europe

Спросите любого психолога, когда худшее время для принятия решения.
Они согласны, что это когда вы страдаете от истощения и эмоционального коллапса.

...Sometimes politicians make promises that they know they are powerless to deliver.
At other times they use Brussels as a whipping-boy for unpopular decisions they would have made in any case.
This has created a real problem for democracy across Europe.
Not just in Britain.

I come back, then, to a proposition that sounds lame – as quiet good sense so often does.
Just this, and this alone.
Suspending Brexit will be greatly preferable to the alternative.
How many important decisions in our own lives, too, have had to be taken on such a chilly and unexciting consideration?
It’s time for a long pause.