Brexit gives 'grounds for hope', says UK's Johnson in appeal to 'Remainers'

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Brexit gives 'grounds for hope', says UK's Johnson in appeal to 'Remainers'

 

Britain's Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson arrives in Downing Street in London, February 6, 2018. REUTERS/Hannah McKay

 

LONDON (Reuters) - Foreign minister Boris Johnson will appeal on Wednesday to those who he says are seeking to reverse the result of Britain's vote to leave the European Union, saying Brexit "is not grounds for fear but hope".

 

In the first of several speeches by government ministers that Prime Minister Theresa May hopes will set out a "road to Brexit", Johnson will try to unite a divided nation by urging Britons to rally around a vision for a better future outside the EU.

 

Johnson, a prominent Brexit campaigner, and the rest of May's team are under pressure from EU supporters who want Britain to keep the closest possible ties with the bloc, including remaining a member of the customs union. Brexit supporters say this would curb Britain's power to negotiate free trade agreements with other countries.

 

"I fear that some people are becoming ever more determined to stop Brexit... I believe that would be a disastrous mistake that would lead to permanent and ineradicable feelings of betrayal," Johnson will say, according to excerpts of his speech.

 

"I want to try today to anatomise at least some of those fears and to show to the best of my ability that they are unfounded, and that the very opposite is usually true: that Brexit is not grounds for fear but hope."

 

The speech in London is being billed by aides as a chance for Johnson, who is credited with persudading many Britons to vote to leave the bloc, to show a path for "an outward-facing, liberal, and global Britain following our exit from the EU".

 

FRUSTRATION

 

The foreign minister has become increasingly frustrated, his aides say, that what he sees as his legacy - a promise to return millions of pounds to Britain's state-funded health service - is being squandered by an indecisive May, weakened after losing the Conservative Party's majority in an election last June.

 

Instead he not only wants to go on the attack to show that Brexit, bogged down in difficult negotiations with Brussels, can be a success, but also to win over those who voted in the 2016 referendum to remain in the EU, his aides say.

 

"If we are to carry this project through to national success - as we must - then we must also reach out to those who still have anxieties," he will say.

 

"It is not good enough to say to Remainers – you lost, get over it; because we must accept that many are actuated by entirely noble sentiments, a real sense of solidarity with our European neighbours and a desire for the UK to succeed."

 

(Reporting by Elizabeth Piper; Editing by Gareth Jones)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2018-02-14

[Enoon]

 

"I believe that would be a disastrous mistake that would lead to permanent and ineradicable feelings of betrayal,"

 

Too late Boris, the "disastrous mistake" was made by David Cameron. 

 

The "permanent and eradicable feelings" are already here.

 

You and your gang made them "policy".

 

 

Edited February 14, 2018 by Enoon

[puck2]

Johnson - the BLEXIT  (British Liar of Exit) - will say:

 

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"I fear that some people are becoming ever more determined to stop Brexit...

I believe that would be a disastrous mistake that would lead to permanent and ineradicable feelings of betrayal," Johnson will say, according to excerpts of his speech.

Edited February 14, 2018 by puck2

[Chomper Higgot]

Boris Johnson talking about betrayal.... lol.

[dunroaming]

Johnson is just about to make his speech so I will wait to hear it.  It is said he wants to unite the leave voters and the remainers?   Good luck with that Boris!

[mrfill]

File under "Another £350m/week to the NHS" folder with the other lies.

 

He must stand to make a mountain of money from leaving.

[dunroaming]

OK, I listened to it carefully and was waiting for something of note.  He did take issue with those Brexiteers who keep spouting "You lost, get over it!"  Apart from that, absolutely nothing whatsoever.  Hot air and bluster and no details about anything at all.  It was basically a referendum speech.  He continually kept telling the remainers that there was no need to worry but without any justification for it. There was a smattering of warnings against betrayal (being lectured by Boris about betrayal ).  In fact I am not sure who the speech was intended for?

 

I can only guess May pushed him to make it to give the impression that he was on her side.  As for convincing remainers that there is nothing to worry about.......  I am more worried than ever.

[Stupooey]

"Grounds for hope". Hardly a ringing endorsement.

[dunroaming]

There does seem to be a growing number of people saying that a second referendum may be the best way.  I say that is absolutely NOT the way.  If we have another referendum tomorrow then we would still be voting on the unknown as we did the first time around.  In 2012 Gove proposed that Britain should have two referendums, one for the people to decide if we should, in theory, leave the EU and a second after the negotiations were complete to decide whether the negotiations had delivered what the country wanted.  That proposal makes perfect sense to me and obviously did to Michael Gove at the time.

 

Source is Victoria Derbyshire programme today where she showed the actual written proposal.

[Grouse]

There would be greater hope if we remain

 

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