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The simplest Brexit compromise: Leave and figure out the details later

By Tim Worstall

Published November 19, 2018 8:14pm ET

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The simplest Brexit compromise: Leave and figure out the details later — Pro and anti Brexit protesters hold placards as they vie for media attention near Parliament in London, Friday, Nov. 16, 2018. Britain's Prime Minister May still faces the threat of a no-confidence vote, after several Conservative Party lawmakers said they had written letters asking for one. | (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

We now see the shape of Prime Minister Theresa May’s compromise on Brexit, and it’s fair and reasonable to call it the mildest form of leaving possible. It’s like divorcing by agreeing to only be married 23.5 hours a day with the single bit happening when all are safely asleep, in dreams.

This isn’t what we all worked for, and it’s not what we voted for.

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