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Here’s the problem with May’s concept of #Brexit in a single extract from her speech. “Brexit does not belong to Parliament. It belongs to the whole country. It belongs to the people who voted for it and want to see it implemented, so we can move on to a more prosperous future.”
Only the people who voted for Brexit are NOT the whole county. The 16 million who voted Remain are also the country. The people who abstained are also the country. The youth who was deemed ineligible is also the country. The migrants who were disenfranchised are also the country.
This is why “Remoaners” like me have not “accepted” Brexit and will never accept it. This is why the UK, with three weeks to go, still cannot tell the EU whatbit wants with any clarity. This is why May’s approach commands no support - and no respect - in the House of Commons.
Because that single moment of the referendum, the advisory, vague referendum, the lawless referendum, the referendum influenced by dark money and foreign interference, has been used to edit out, to silence the vast majority of the country in any conversation on its own future.
