Conservative promise of a hard Brexit would be worse

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Full title that I can't fit in .
"Conservative promise of a hard Brexit would be worse for the UK economy than Labour’s radical spending plans"

https://theconversation.com/conservativ ... ans-128570

Econmist Mark Blyth thinks,5 years post Brexit, Britain will be back to being okay-ish.
The question is, who would have to take the blame - or why would Labour do this to themselves? - so his guess is: either Corbyn gets to fundamentally reform Britain, or the Tories will have to Brexit and deal with the aftermath, and Corbyn gets to watch the party of Margaret Thatcher fall apart.

I like Corbyn.

Article doesn’t actually talk about the impact of Corbyn’s policies at all so think the headline is a bit misleading. Yes, some of his pledges have been criticised for being impossible (the tree planting pledge foremost amongst them) but the main concern is that he wants to spend a lot of money nationalising things at below market value, which could be terrible for investor confidence and doesn’t offer any benefits.

The Tories will probably get a majority anyway , and do their utmost to f*** the country up even more for another 5 years.

My opinion is that they have had three years to come up with a deal,no it's time for brexit to happen,deal or no deal.Enough debating and just make brexit happen whatever the consequence.

Breaks my heart! Though the British, the English in particular, may think they are hurting the Germans by leaving the EU, they may, indeed, end up hurting themselves. After all, what if Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland decide to, in their turn, succeed from the United Kingdom? What then?

The problem has been that without being in a position to threaten to walk away (no-deal), all the negotiations look to have been made in a way that was either directly against Britains interests, or not in the best terms that could have been made - It's like being told you have to purchase an item, but you are only permitted to buy from one store, even though there are others that may have better prices/offers/support etc....The store has all the power, while the buyer is in a "take it or leave it" position.

Should the Conservatives win, it will lessen the EU's position as they can't just put whatever they want in, knowing it has to be accepted and also knowing that if they don't offer "reasonable" terms then none of the things they wanted kept will be in place following the split.

Personally, I don't know if the conservatives WOULD have followed through with a no-deal if they had the option to do so, but preventing them from at least being able to threaten to do so was probably one of the worst moves that Labour could have made...They would have been much better placed to require any potential deal to be confirmed by parliament, but leave open the "no deal" possibility, as it looks like they would have had the numbers to prevent that outcome. Now (if the polls are correct), they could lose the chance of retaining any of the things they may have wanted (and may have received) by not having allowing the conservatives to negotiate with the EU on equal terms with all options open, but the ability to veto any deal they did not like (which I guess was any deal that involved leaving the EU).

The whole point of my post was to say that after three long years Britain has forfited the right to worry about what is best for Britain,and now it's time to just leave.

Oh don't you worry Metak Rat we put all if that behind us as soon as we got our hands on their hifi equipment and cars.