Thread by @MitchBenn

Re. the rising tide of Brexiter anger and the varying responses thereto; yes, it’s despicable and the reaction from right wing pundits and politicians that Soubry et al in some way Had It Coming is EQUALLY despicable and they should be throughly ashamed of themselves. But... 1/

... there’s ANOTHER reason that the notion that this rising anger means we shouldn’t do anything to impede Brexit For Fear Of The Consequences is thoroughly fucked up, above and beyond the principle that we shouldn’t allow violence to dictate policy, and it’s this: 2/

IT’S NOT GOING TO MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE.

The idea that we can can preclude a burst of Brexiter Rage by going gung-ho for Brexit is false because - and get this, because it’s important:

THE BREXITERS ARE GOING TO BE ANGRY WHATEVER HAPPENS.
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The kind of Brexiters who are committing/excusing these acts of thuggery aren’t going to be satisfied with anything short of full-on No Deal Brexit. They’ll reject any deal because anything the EU is willing to sign off on can only POSSIBLY be a betrayal of Britain. 4/

So anything short of total War-With-France levels of severance from the EU and the hardcore Brexiters will be crying TREACHERY and BETRAYAL and bewailing how that Remainer bitch May sold us all out.

BUT...

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If they DO get their No Deal Fuck The Foreigners Rule Britannia Hard Brexit, and for some totally unforeseeable reason it’s NOT an instant roaring success (I know, hard to imagine, but come with me on this one), or if things, actually, you know... get WORSE...

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... then they’ll STILL be crying TREACHERY and BETRAYAL and complaining how that Remainer bitch May and all the other Remoaners SABOTAGED the whole process and how they’d all be RICH and HAPPY now if only Brexit had been DONE PROPERLY.

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The Brexiters are going to be angry because the thing they want - the thing they’ve been promised - a smooth, orderly Hard Brexit which leaves us happier, safer and richer - CAN’T HAPPEN.

Whether it’s bloviating Spectator columnists, huffing gammons on QT or HighViz Nazis...
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... the age of the Angry Brexiter is coming and cannot be averted, whatever course we take re. Brexit.

The only difference is what sort of country we’re left with.

So our choices are: Brexit, social turmoil, economic meltdown, angry Brexiters;

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Or NO Brexit, a functioning if fractured society, and Angry Brexiters.

We SHOULDN’T try to placate and appease thuggery, but in this specific instance we couldn’t even if we wanted to.

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