Rory Stewart
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We would have had to say, we want clean water or we want dirty water.
Or if they said, Minister...
You can't plant all these trees because something in the Common Agricultural Policy doesn't allow the use of the single farm payment for that.
If they went to the Union of the Green Union, they would have had to be more honest and said, the way we've designed our farm support package wouldn't allow you to use it for this.
The real indicator of why this went wrong is that we haven't got... I imagine one of the only benefits of Brexit might be that we'd get a bit more accountability and a bit more trust in government.
If we go back to that fundamental idea that we love, the buck stops here, the only advantage of Brexit is we might end up in a situation where ultimately ministers, prime ministers, councillors are able to say, the buck stops here, I made this decision, it's not the fault of.
But instead of which, we've just found another baddie.
It's not the European Union.
Instead, we blame laws.
We blame the European Convention on Human Rights.
We blame processes.
We blame civil servants.
They've moved on to a new set of lies.
Not a mad idea, right?
Seems to be a perfectly sensible idea on the surface that you decide what kind of population you want and you plan towards it.
But the problem is, the small print was...
if you breached the population cap, you would leave all the European agreements on movement of people, et cetera, et cetera.
The idea that Keir Starmer is like kind of a threesome or foursome.
Well, all that he's, he has these Ukrainian rent boys
Oh, they're men.