I find the whole customs union argument about how we need to be out of it to trade with other countries outside the EU.
It's an argument that neglects how shit our industry is at exporting.
Germany is much better at exporting outside the EU than we are. Why is that?
Thats what we should be looking at.
DH currently is working at a company which won an award for export. They export to over a hundred countries. Yet most companies who win the same award export to 20.
We are completely barking up the wrong tree when talking about WTO terms etc as the extra red tape caused is highly likely to further shrink our lack of interest and enterprise in exporting. We just don't have the right mindset for it.
Equally the whole immigration and FOM thing is somewhat farcical. The talk is how we can restrict immigration and how this will improve work opportunities for British workers. Yet this relies on a fundamental shift in long term thinking and investment in training. Three years in and there's nothing from government to encourage this. For example the NHS is merely looking for nurses from further afield rather than a strategic shift from government to reinstate training bursaries and look at ways to promote the career to a new generation. Or the assumption that anyone unemployed is suitable to become a care worker just because its a largely unskilled job. No thought is given to the culture which is encouraging people into that job and how an aggressive DWP might contribute to abuses of vulnerable people by forcing wholly unsuitable people into the job rather than looking at the entire sector, working conditions, pay and how its respected as a career and how this might affect attitudes.
I don't know what the solution is but what frustrates me is how the real problems that are out there and were drivers for Brexit are being totally ignored, overlooked or deliberately twisted to avoid doing something about those issues.
And on this score I think many Remainers are as guilty as leavers because they treat remain as preserving the status quo and ignoring some of these issues rather than a wholesale look into how opportunities in education and work are causing problems and how there is a certain reluctance for change. Equally the failure of leavers to acknowledge that actually many of the issues they blame on the EU are nothing to do with them and everything to do with domestic policy isn't helping.
I grow frustrated with the whole damn lot of it, because as it stands I don't think EITHER leaving or remaining is going to fix the broken nature of our society because we aren't interested in taking a good look at the issues which we have because our thinking has almost become entrenched in false notions of a utopia that hasn't existed whether that be the rose tinted view of a 70s era or the idea that things werent that broken pre-ref.
I don't see any sign of either government led vision nor entrepreneural vision. We are stuck in a rut of 'the lazy route' or 'the path of least resistance'. I don't think a harsh shock to the system will suddenly spark it out of necessity either because quite honestly Johnson is a lazy idiot who hasn't a clue and I haven't identified anyone else from any party with much more to inspire that either.
It's all around thoroughly depressing and I don't think it a pure leave / remain issue anymore although it almost suits to confine it to that because the blame game deflects away from producing strategies for change which we need regardless of our EU trade status.
But hey ho. That's where we are.