It's entirely possible that people still want to be out of the EU because of the dream they were sold for years and have convinced themselves is possibility, but now blame the government for not being able to deliver on it rather than selling it to them in the first place. The Murdoch and DMG press certainly aren't going to say that the dream itself was bullshit after selling it for years and calling opposition to it and examination of it tantamount to treachery at one point either.
Yeah, I'm sure there's an element of clinging to a position people have been wedded to after a bitter, lengthy national argument too. That tenacity is understandable, even if it's cutting off their nose to spite their face. I do think at the moment it's a case of baseless optimism of 'this is a short term launch error, it will get better if we cling on and see it though!' though. As opposed to the realisation that a) small businesses are already flagging up the massive increased costs for any kind of trade with the dozens of our closest neighbours that sit on our only road link. B) multinationals started leaving years ago. C) The omnishambles that is the border's administration is not just teething errors, it's the result of visable incompetence and refusal to admit the consequences by government over a period of years, and D) the massive increased shipping costs on everything are not a short-term thing, they are the standard for being outside the trade body we sit next to the heart of and run much our commerce through, making it ridiculous to not be on it's management body. That's why Tories are now banging on about 'eat local', as if for a wealthy country in 2021, that's the same standard of living as other European countries that aren't being encouraged to only eat what's grown in their borders, but to trade freely and openly with their neighbours. None of these were unforseeable, or secrets only held by a liberal elite of remoaners so we could say 'I told you so' afterwards. This was common knowledge easily available to anyone that didn't only read the Tory press and PR. Plenty of people had blinkers on and still do.
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