to think that Brexit has such a grip on people that it's like people in a car voting to go on a new route and..

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Leaving the path they have known behind. Wanting to do a different journey. Hearing that people on the other path seem to be doing okay, seeing that the path you have chosen has pitfalls, is causing you issues, potentially damaging your car, making the passengers concerned but when you see a potential different route, you aren't allowed to take that route or even discuss that route because just over half of the car passengers voted to go down this route and that's the route we're going to take.

Because if we just keep going, it will be fine. Maybe it will. Who knows,

But it does seem like we are on a journey that's causing us issues and when people dare to mention alternative routes, it's shut down because this is the way we have chosen.

(I am sure other analogies are available)

See here OP : assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1054643/benefits-of-brexit.pdf

It’s more like a divorce after years in a controlling marriage. You’ve definitely ended up poorer. There’s lots of stuff to work out, and you might have to do some things yourself that the guy was better at. There’s the prospect of new partnerships in the future but they haven’t materialised. There’s certainly hardships and sometimes you feel sad about the situation, but do you really want to give up on the idea of independence and try to get back with your ex husband? Probably not, because the decision to leave was made for reasons that weren’t just economic or practical. Going back (if the ex husband would even take you) would mean swallowing pride, and the 52% of you that originally wanted to leave would be dying inside. So in these circumstances, hard as it is, you’re probably better off concentrating on the future and making the best of it.

Or deciding that it's worth dating your ex and seeing how it's going. Strangely even quite a few brexiteers are in favour of that one.

What a load of rubbish.

The economy is tanking, we have a massive labour shortage and there's no real benefits so far.

The only reason we persist with this farce is leavers pride.

I can't wait until we get the Tories out and come to our senses.

I wondered what happened to this thread?

And then noticed that someone had decided to resurrect it to post the benefits of Brexit.

It does feel like no one is allowed to mention that leaving the EU, our major trading partner, may have caused us some issues, and that we can't possibly work together.

This was posted at the same time as the Swiss or Norway deal was discussed - and shot down rapidly.

And it’s not 52% any more, is it?

We have people who have changed their minds having seen the politicians’ lies laid bare, people who feel duped by the UK’s unseemly and undemocratic haste to leave the single market, and over six years of young people turning 18 and now able to vote.

If you've really read it you'd know this is a desperate bit of PR. If it was going well it would be self evident and the government that made this happen wouldn't be trying to go ta da! I mean, writing putting crown symbols on a pint glass as a benefit.

When you say come to our sense what do you mean? As in tories out so we will try to re-join?

We’ve a Labour shortage but thousands on long term sick. Better to make an effort to get locals back to work imv.