{"id":116,"date":"2019-07-19T12:25:04","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T11:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/?p=116"},"modified":"2019-07-19T13:59:35","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T12:59:35","slug":"brexit-radicalisation-and-the-prime-reason-thereof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/2019\/07\/19\/brexit-radicalisation-and-the-prime-reason-thereof\/","title":{"rendered":"Brexit radicalisation and the prime reason thereof"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most Leavers wanted a Good Deal, rather than No Deal, but then realised <em>all<\/em> the deals that were actually acceptable to the UK establishment were <em>entirely<\/em> about ensuring Brexit-in-name-only. The gulf between rhetoric and action became so wide that distrust in Westminster and its institution became near total. It is this collapse in trust that has driven support for a No Deal\/WTO Brexit, not a fundamental desire on the behalf of most Brexiteers to leave the EU with No Deal. The birth and meteoric growth of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrexitparty.org\/thebrexiteer\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Brexit Party<\/a> is a direct product of this collapse.<\/p>\n<p>I am strongly of the view that if a deal with the EU could be reached that left the UK free to make whatever trade deals it wished with agreeable third parties, very few Leave voters would oppose it.  <\/p>\n<p>The key element needed is it has to be a deal that does not permit EU institutions and EU regulations any authority whatsoever over the UK <em>except when it is trading with the EU<\/em> (either directly or via automatic harmonisation of UK regulations with EU regulations, which would the very definition of a &#8216;Brexit&#8217; that was Brexit-in-name-only).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most Leavers wanted a Good Deal, rather than No Deal, but then realised all the deals that were actually acceptable to the UK establishment were entirely about ensuring Brexit-in-name-only. The gulf between rhetoric and action became so wide that distrust in Westminster and its institution became near total. It is this collapse in trust that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,6,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126,"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions\/126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}