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Which is a [[mediocre lawyer|lawyer’]]s way of saying “[[Brexit means Brexit]]”. Should the agreement your solicitor has prepared for you make no sense whatsoever; if it is plainly impossible for an ordinary Englishman to divine the merchants’ commercial consensus no matter how carefully one examines the text — hardly an inconceivable contingency when that agreement was drawn up by a [[mediocre lawyer|lawyer]] — then your expensively wrangled opinion does no more than verify that sorry state of affairs.
Which is a [[mediocre lawyer|lawyer’]]s way of saying “[[Brexit means Brexit]]”. Should the agreement your solicitor has prepared for you make no sense whatsoever; if it is plainly impossible for an ordinary Englishman to divine the merchants’ commercial consensus no matter how carefully one examines the text — hardly an inconceivable contingency when that agreement was drawn up by a [[mediocre lawyer|lawyer]] — then your expensively wrangled opinion does no more than verify that sorry state of affairs.
From the [[Jolly Contrarian]]’s stock of old adages that might not mean very much: ''“A legal opinion is just an onion with pi in it.”''


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