When Richard North submitted an EU Referendum blog crowdsourced entry to the IEA’s competition for writing a Blueprint for Britain outside the EU (Brexit) – covering the process of withdrawal from the EU and the post-exit repositioning of the UK in the global trading and governance systems – neither of us thought the judges would shortlist such a radical submission, which counters and corrects a number of long held yet badly considered assertions and assumptions about the subject.
We have been proved wrong. The entry has been included on a shortlist of 20 from 149 submissions received by the IEA from around the world.
Credibility is everything in blogging. In an effort to maintain that credibility, I want to be seen as big enough to admit that I was wrong. Very well done to Richard and everyone who contributed to the submission. Your efforts have seen to it that a well researched and groundbreaking submission that will correct so many misconceptions, will be aired before a substantial audience.
Congratulations!
As with this initial entry, Richard would welcome any help: advice, ideas or direct assistance, and in particular he would appreciate views on how we deal with costing out the options we might present. These can either go on the EU Referendum forum, on The Boiling Frog’s comments page, on the AM BREXIT page, or you can e-mail Richard via the blog, with your observations.
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Well Done Keep up the good work..
AM see what you would have missed if you had left us ..
I wish to add my congratulations to Richard North. If it makes it to n°1 I am sure it will open many eyes and hopefully it will be a game changer for euro-skeptics everywhere.
Survival has this to recommend it over ritual suicide: you can do it repeatedly. Maybe the IEA is realizing that at last.