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Just catching up on this one. John - you may call me Ray by all means. If you're a cruciverbalist you might understand why I don't care. I'm not an unfriendly bod (I'd like to think not anyway). I don't quite know what you've got against the LSE. It's not my Alma Mater but I did have a close, late lamented friend who graduated from there in the 70s. It was a bit of a bastion of liberal thinking in those days. Neither do I consider myself the font of all wisdom. I have a particular dislike of emojis - they don't add anything that a well honed phrase can't better. But hey - if you think add it adds to your argument, then who's to complain? It's just that most of the times that particular emoji is used on here it's preceded by a load of guff.
Anne Applebaum is simply making the point that so many arguments regarding foreign trade, financial benefits from leaving, the holy grail of immigration reduction etc etc are proving to be based upon misunderstandings. Chickens are coming home to roost and will do so with increasing frequency. You've only got to hear today's news about Indian doctors on the "learn, earn, leave" scheme having their visa claims rejected to understand how these attitudes are working to our society's detriment.
I can do no better than refer to Dominic Grieve's speech in yesterday's debate. But I doubt you'd be interested enough to follow it up. Confirmation bias isn't a wonderful thing. Obviously, you'll say that I suffer from it as much as the Brexiteer camp. Sooner or later people will realise that Brexit is a crock of doo-doos for the UK. Scotland, Northern Ireland, Gibraltar and an economic fiasco that will take years to recover from. Will we get by? Yes - of course we will. We will suffer and regret being led by a bunch of hypocrites? Yes - of course we will. Let's bury the hatchet and see what things look like in 2 years time, shall we? After all, we've postponed the leaving date once already.
