Maybe, Maybe Not – were comments on hard #Brexit ‘misinterpreted’?
Theresa May [Image: Getty Images].
Only a few hours ago, Jeremy Hunt realised he has crippled NHS England to the point that A&E departments cannot cope with the inflow of patients within the target time period – so he blamed the patients and changed the target.
Now, in a variation on this “moving the goalposts” theme, Theresa May has realised that her comments on “hard Brexit” have harmed the Pound – so she has blamed the media, and the public at large, for “misinterpreting” her words.
But she isn’t very good at this; most people would have at least tried to explain how their words had been misheard.
Mrs May was quoted as saying the UK was leaving the EU and would not be holding onto an aspects of membership. This quite clearly means we’ll be out of the Single Market – no “if”s, “but”s or “maybe”s. Hard Brexit.
Today, she said she does not accept the terms “hard” and “soft” Brexit.
Tough. The rest of us do. The terms we don’t accept are “Brexit means Brexit” and “Red, white and blue Brexit”.
Increasing numbers of us are refusing to believe Mrs May has any idea what the United Kingdom needs from Brexit.
And multitudes are now refusing to accept that we should have a prime minister named Theresa May.
May said her comments on a hard Brexit in a TV interview yesterday were misinterpreted.Following her interview, sterling fell to its lowest level for two months; the pound is down by 1% against both the euro and the US dollar.
Ms May was questioned today about whether or not she had implied that the UK would leave the single market, sparking what has become known as a hard Brexit.
In the interview on Sky News, she was widely interpreted to mean that the UK would dramatically change trade ties with the EU after Brexit.
She said that the UK was leaving the EU completely and not retaining bits of membership.
Today she said she did not accept the terms hard and soft Brexit, and that it was wrong to interpret her comments yesterday as meaning a hard Brexit was inevitable.
Instead, she said, Britain was going to get an ambitious deal for the UK in terms of trading with and operating within the single European market.
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The Tories will turn themselves inside out and still say that that was not what they said.
Alan Clark caught lying in court, made the infamous statement that he was just being “economical with the truth”.
The real problem is too many want to believe what these Tories tell them.
Absolutely spot on Mervyn, especially your last sentence.
I’m loosing track of Ms May’s comments on Brexit does this “Britain was going to get an ambitious deal for the UK in terms of trading with and operating within the single European market.” mean she intends to keep us in the single market or try to stay in without the rules we have to abide by now, like free movement which has already been made clear by EU members we can’t have one without the other, confused.com!
Lets call the whole thing off – since the tories bought the election illegally, everything done since – including the brexit vote – is subject to revokation once this bunch of sociopaths have been put behind bars where they belong.
Leaving the eu means leaving he single market both remain and leave made this clear prior to the vote, the whole soft hard brexit nonsense has been created by the media, We will of course still be able to trade with the eu, because they can not under international laws refuse to trade with us, in any event it would harm them to behave in that manner. However the Media wanting stories to tell create them with maybe might could and perhaps looming large in the so called facts, but people miss those words and take it as gospel truth.