What have I forgotten?
I remind you on the Sunday straight after the referendun the chancellor of the exchequer stated " we are leaving the single market, we are leaving the customs union and that was everybody's understanding, to end free movement and to trade with the rest of the world
You did not put in a closing quote mark, but the The Sun article linked below attributes something similar to Oliver Letwin, a remainer Tory MP, in December of 2016, some six months after the referendum. He was not then, nor has he been since, Chancellor of the Exchequer. The Chancellor of the Exchequer on the Sunday immediately following the Referendum was George Osborne, an arch remainer. I don't think Osborne has ever attempted to cast Brexit in positive terms, which is what is implied by your quote. Why should Letwin or Osborne's words have any power in deciding what the country should do?
How Remainer MPs promised to respect Brexit and broke vow to voters
Furthermore, on a technical note, we are leaving
the EU Customs Union regardless. Even if Labour gets its customs union demand (as irrelevant to the needs of the situation that is) this still holds true. That will be a bilateral customs union between Britain and the EU, not the EU Customs Union. We would also be leaving the Single Market under May's negotiated Withdrawal Agreement.
Now we have been betrayed by MPs and the will of the house will over ride the above mentioned. This betrayal could only have been avoided by actually leaving and then negotiating
I am equally disgusted by Parliament, probably more so. You were sticking up for MPs a few weeks ago, when you said that Theresa May had 'insulted' them. I pointed out to you that they were worthy of being insulted.
May saving us from the abyss, as she is being credited for is a shining example of project's fears success which has brainwashed a nation into believing we will crumble as a nation.
May has not saved us from the abyss. For one thing, as I said in the last post, a no deal exit seems as likely as ever. For another, May bears a significant responsibility for bringing us to the edge of the abyss, where we currently sit. She has been completely wrong-headed from the very beginning. I bemoaned this fact on the other forum at the time of her Lancaster House speech in January of 2017, where she announced a doomed strategy for negotiating Britain's exit from the EU that any knowledgeable person could see was going to lead us to misery.
This was after she had already promised MPs a vote on any agreement with the EU for Britain leaving. I could foresee then that whatever miserable deal May was going to get was not going to get through the Commons, and that MPs had only been given the right to bring about a no deal exit, which I was very keen then to avoid.
These people who claim of a disaster where the same as those who claimed a huge crash after the referendum, never happened and they too are of the same ilk of those who claimed that not taking the euro would also throw us into an abyss.
Don't believe the hype.
That is not a useful refutation of anything, I am afraid. Brexit does not begin until we actually leave the EU. And when we actually do leave, especially with no deal, our relationship to it is completely different and unprecedented, as so much of our international trading relationships are dependent on it, even with third countries who are outside of the EU. But really, it is not leaving the EU that is the problem at all, but leaving the European Economic Area (or Single Market). There is no WTO rulebook to fall back on that is going to make everything just fine, as many leavers like to make believe there is, with no regard for the facts.
Suffering a severe economic shock does not leave us in a position to negotiate with the EU, but in a position of great weakness. We can either deal in an orderly fashion, before leaving, or in a disorderly fashion afterwards, when we would likely have to take whatever we can get, and not just from the EU.