{"id":5891,"date":"2019-01-19T09:31:24","date_gmt":"2019-01-19T14:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=5891"},"modified":"2019-01-19T09:31:24","modified_gmt":"2019-01-19T14:31:24","slug":"finally-someone-who-isnt-pessimistic-about-brexit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2019\/01\/19\/finally-someone-who-isnt-pessimistic-about-brexit\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally Someone Who Isn&#8217;t Pessimistic About Brexit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since the Brexit vote in 2016 I have been hoping against my better judgement that the Brits will be successful and unshackle themselves from the stinking corpse of the Holy Roman Empire.\u00a0 But everyone I read seems either more pessimistic than I am or is gaslighting us into the hopelessness of escape.\u00a0 Thank you, Conrad Black, for an opposing and reasoned opinion.\u00a0 I realize that Black is an ally of Theresa May but that doesn&#8217;t mean he&#8217;s wrong or that she won&#8217;t be able to provide Brexit.\u00a0 she knows the voters want it and she knows that the majority of her Tories are against it.\u00a0 She has to negotiate the difference and then hope to run out the clock once the EU negotiations fail to provide a satisfactory &#8220;Soft Brexit.&#8221;\u00a0 I hope he&#8217;s right.\u00a0 I believe there&#8217;s less than three months to the end date.\u00a0 Fingers crossed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/conrad-black-theresa-may-will-find-her-way-to-a-victory\">Conrad Black: Theresa May will find her way to a victory<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the Brexit vote in 2016 I have been hoping against my better judgement that the Brits will be successful and unshackle themselves from the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,245,237],"tags":[1694,1689,1059,1695,1696,1693],"class_list":["post-5891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-review-of-article","category-reviews","tag-boris-johnson","tag-brexit","tag-conrad-black","tag-jacob-rees-mogg","tag-nigel-farage","tag-theresa-may"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.4 - 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