1: An Introduction
Let’s talk about ‘Soft’ Brexit.
Soft Brexit is very different from No Deal, Hard Brexit or Johnson’s Brexit.
It aims to sidestep the harm Hard Brexit will inflict on:
– Workers’ rights
– Environmental protection
– Consumer protection
– The NHS.
2: Depolarisation
Soft Brexit says,
“Don’t let yourself be radicalised. Don’t take a binary position defined by the architects of the Brexit project.”
It says, “Don’t ‘other’ half of our nation in the way Hard Remainers and Hard Brexiteers urge you to do.”
And it says, “Don’t let populism take you for a fool. Populism gives simple answers to difficult questions – answers which are often so simple they become stupid. Brexit is a complex issue. Treat it that way.”
3: Anti-Bureaucracy
Soft Brexit strives to minimise bureaucracy.
No Deal, Hard Brexit and ‘Johnson’s Brexit’ are all a bureaucrat’s wet dream.
There’ll be paperwork everywhere, borders everywhere, mountainous regulations, endless checks and controls, unproductive, mind-numbing jobs – while productivity slumps.
4: Fairness
And morality strives for a fair outcome.
For 50% of us to be jubilant while 50% are disenfranchised or ignored would be unfair.
If no outcome makes us all happy we need an outcome which makes ALL of us the least unhappy.
Soft Brexit: it’s both moral and fair.
5: Morality
Speaking of morality, Brexit is not a moral project.
Its champions are immoral, mendacious, elitist.
Its emphasis on division rather than on our shared humanity is immoral.
The Brexit project has involved perjury, illicit funding, bullying, bribery and lies.
It has deceived ordinary people into thinking these people are their friends: Jacob Rees-Mogg, Aaron Banks, Nigel Farage, Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson.
6: A Sensible Brexit
But many who’ve participated in none of these things nevertheless believe in it.
They want Brexit.
So we have a moral response.
Compromise.
A soft Brexit.
A sensible Brexit.
And a people’s vote: Sensible Brexit or Remain.
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