To wish Theresa May would just say sod it we're staying in the EU because ...

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It's her job to act in the best interest of our country.

We NEED access to the single market and won't get that without free movement of people.

The peace process in N Ireland will be in jeopardy if we erect a border between them and Ireland. It's too high a price to pay.

The referendum was advisory so PM May and the majority of MPs who were pro-remain need to say 'thanks for the advice but we can't deliver what you wanted without wrecking our country so we're staying'

Yawn.

Do some posters ever - ever take on board anything they read or what other posters say>

This has been done to death.

Yes government cuts, but more Yes to the total cock up by the previous government which had totally cocked up the access to the work market.
They did not head count people in, they had no idea how many people would come ( or maybe they did) councils were left with enormous new people living in them and yet head counts showed a decrease in population.

I wonder if issues come from being a tribal party member rather than a swing voter or someone who can look at all the issues as a whole, rather than tweaking facts to attack one party.

Obviously you wouldn't announce it until all the negotiating has been done. And I don't think it will happen, just wish it would.

Oh stop bloody well sulking about the result will you! I voted to remain also, but we lost. Now we want our PM to act like fucking Mussolini and ignore the democratic will of the nation? Get over it and stop flippin whining.

What countries are going to negotiate a plan with/for us so that we might or might not vote for depending on the mood of the country

Nice idea but it wouldn't happen

Ireland never had a border as such way back in the mists of time (pre troubles) and no reason to in the future.

Actually, there is one very good reason to. That would be, the UK having control of her borders. The alternative is an unpoliced land border, which is how it is now, you can just waltz over without even noticing except for the phone companies texting to switch you over. But if we do Brexit and do lose freedom of movement, without a hard border that means EEA nationals and their family members, EEA or otherwise, who are in ROI under EU law, can cross over into the UK at their leisure. That is, the UK would not have control of her borders.

I'm very much against a hard border myself, and I reckon we'll be keeping freedom of movement (indeed, quite possibly featuring more immigrants if the UK isn't in the EU proper to act as a brake on expansion). My solution to the above problem would be to keep freedom of movement and not have a hard border, but that's because I didn't vote thinking we'd be taking back control of our borders. There is, however, a collision course between limiting immigration/freedom of movement and not having a hard border. When it comes down to it, we can only have one of those things.