Re: He's threatening Italy as well
There's a simple answer. I want to live in the UK, but I want the UK to be a member of the EU.
Sorry, but those days end forever on Friday.
in most cases, as the vast majority of leavers could have left the UK to live in a non EU country but chose not to
Totally different thing. they didn't have the right to live in a non-EU country. They could have requested to live in one of their choice, but they didn't have any rights to it. You did, and you still do all week. If the EU is so great, then go and live in it. If it's actually more important to you to live in the UK, even once outside the EU, well, then just do nothing but don't complain that you didn't have options.
The whole of Europe now has an option to live in a non-EU country by right - they should simply move here by Friday. That could be considered a perfectly reasonable position to take in the rEU starting next week, and one I expect will be used in borderline member states such as Denmark, Italy etc.
A tiny amount of empathy based on their own experiences.
Its not a lack of empathy, its that Leavers patience has been exhausted. Leavers won the debate, then they won the referendum, then they had to win two general elections and then they still had to win the debate in parliament. We've had to win 5 times - how many times do you think remain would have had to win? One time and you know it.
In or out of the EU is a binary thing - they insist that it be so. Once the vote became leave, Leavers offered remainers a compromise that would have achieved more of what remainers wanted than what Leavers wanted, and it was rejected angrily by remain. Boris deal is the only compromise now open to us - close trading ties and on going friendship.
If things go badly, as I expect they will, I'll continue pushing for us to be members of the EU
There's no in-again referendum coming. No political party is going to offer you that option for decades - you had chance to cancel Brexit at the election but most of you voted for marxism instead of the libdems. That debate is settled now, and for all time: The Overton window has moved well away from here.
The EU as you perceive it now will not exist in 10 - 20 years time. The cracks are already widening to breaking point, and once other nations see us doing well, better even than they are, then the clamor to leave will grow elsewhere. Best case for you is the EU reforms to be much much less than it is now, worst case, it simply implodes. There is no future in which it endures on the trajectory of 2016 - ever closer union is dead in the water.