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Morning all. Here’s something I don’t understand about a certain demographic of the general public. At the time of the EU ref, leave voters claimed that the country would prosper following Brexit, the economy would blossom, we would “regain” sovereignty... /1
... and life would be improved all round generally. The government has now abandoned all efforts to portray Brexit in that light and thus leavers know that they were lied to. With the government’s own forecast on stockpiling of food and medicine, fuel shortages, transport... /2
... disruption, affect on the value of the pound, the obvious loss of EU workers in public services etc., it is no longer a case of sunlit uplands but of “the will of the people” in an outdated mandate some 3.5 years previously and in the face of self-harm. What exactly... /3
... is it now that Brexiters want? Now that the dividends have transpired to be false, why do these “patriots” want Brexit at all cost, including at wilful harm to their own country? What exactly is Brexit about now if not the previous dividends? “Sovereignty”? Avoidance of... /4
... EU tax regulations? The latter will only benefit the super rich and not the everyday working class Tory/BXP voter. As to the former, we have now seen that (most) Brexiters couldn’t care less about about parliamentary sovereignty, given the anger with which the Supreme... /5
... Court’s judgment was met. So to what does it now boil down, as we stand in September 2019? The only conclusion I can reach is that this is about far-right nationalism, xenophobia, and populism. Pretence of anything else has been/should be abandoned. Is that what the... /6
