o/t night of the long knives

[sawmiller]

The strategy chosen on Friday was for a relatively 'soft' Brexit. The 'hard' Brexiteers are now choosing to leave the cabinet because they find that is something they can't support. That's fair enough.

I'm not sure whether many leave voters had a 'soft' Brexit in mind when they made they put their crosses on the voting forms, but, then again, I'm not sure that either campaign had really thought the mechanics of Brexit through

It is highly likely that almost no-one knew the full implications of what they voted for - simply too complicated for anyone to get a half decent handle on the full and enduring ramifications either way - ill conceived doesn't even begin to describe it...