Bromptonaut, like you I don't think his 'threat' of a budget was a lie or there to scare us. He pointed out it would be necessary - but the leavers think that's him being a bully. With government borrowing costs going up as I type this.... how do we pay for that? And how will we pay for the extra people now about to become out of work? Well we'll have to raise taxes.
But to the leavers, the negative facts about what would happen was simply seen as scare tactics and they ignored it. They think they were all lying and nothing too bad was going to happen (although I think Westpig is smart enough to know things will get a lot worse before we get back to anywhere near to where we are today).
AS for Turkey joining the EU... we could and probably would have vetoed that. But as soon as we trigger clause 50 we have no say. So in theory Turkey could join next year and therefore Turks could come and settle in the UK and take our jobs. They will then already be here when we leave the EU in 2 years time. Had we stayed in the EU that could not have happened.
Of course I don't really think the EU will let Turkey join but used it as an example of what might change in the EU (which we will remain in for 2 years but have no input or veto) whilst we negotiate our way out.
I thought Boris might have made a good PM in the future.... now I don't trust him and might join the Conservatives so I can have a vote in the future Conservative leader.
What will get really messy is we get a new PM this year and start negotiations with the EU with a Conservative government... then part of the way through we have a general election and say have a liberal/labour coalition government who then might change the direction of the negotiations.... so perhaps we should have a unity government and get all sides involved in our future direction.
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