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John Rumm wrote:
I find it laughable just how naive so many are on here. That they reckon
the entire world is queueing up to be nice to the UK in any deals.

I don't think anyone is under any delusion that it will not take
significant time and effort.

Oddly, despite following all the arguments fairly closely, the time it
might take to sort this mess out was largely ignored. I'd be willing to
bet many who voted leave thought it would be reasonably quick. Not a
generation down the lines.

However, if done right, there is no reason
the final result can't be as good or better than what the EU has
achieved thus far.

But that might depend on just how well this country survives in the
interim. We won't know for some time just how many industries etc will
survive once outside the EU.

The key point is there is no point wasting time and energy worrying
about all the reasons we can't achieve the results the nation needs,
when it would be far more productive working out the best way to
actually go out and get them.

Pity you didn't tell the politicians that years ago - when the referendum
was first envisaged.

So, there are not enough negotiators? Work out how to fix the problem,
how to recruit experienced negotiators from the private sector - people
with years of experience of international negotiations.

That might be fine if they existed. Just what jobs were they doing before?


Start training
the brightest and the best selected from the ranks of the civil service.
Start making use of our remaining links to the commonwealth, and former
colonies. Behave like an entrepreneurial outward looking nation again.

Heh heh. Will need quite a turnround to start training our own people for
the jobs which are actually needed. And anticipating things. Something no
UK government is much good at. Making do and mend being more usual.

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Dave Plowman London SW
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