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Lionel Shriver admits to being clueless as to why some people are so stirred up against Brexit. spectator.co.uk/2019/10/even-i…
I confess I'm clueless as to how someone can be so clueless about this.

Here's a clue: the manner in which the vote was won and has subsequently been implemented (i.e. cluelessly).
This is however one of the best exhibits of how one side cannot even see the other side, never mind understand it.

What usually then happens is they assume the other side must have nefarious motives. Works for Remainers too ("disaster capitalism", Russia, bots etc - see Carole)
Shriver has therefore done us all a favour in admitting to not having a clue.
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Roland Smith
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Always been a fan of referendums for lots of policy issues [maybe comes from my Swiss DNA] but I'm now seriously questioning whether UK should go any further with them beyond the occasional one.

We simply don't have the political culture for them.
Does this mean I'm withdrawing support for a second referendum? No.

But I understand why some don't want to go there and why some half-arsed GE- substitute may seem a better alternative.
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Forgotten fact: Leavers first mentioned Canada as a potential model in...... 2016.
Before that it was all EFTA with lashings of EEA.
Who was the genius, the great thinker of our age who promoted Canada from the beginning?

Step forward David Campbell Bannerman.
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A different view from John Gray, from a Brexity standpoint.

Some interesting arguments made about resolving the innate tension within Conservatism, liberal legalism, and politics as warfare.

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Suffice it to say, various Brexiters are promoting the article. But it is worth Remainers' time too.
Footnote: this was John Gray just after the Leave vote....
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If #Brexit has a constitutional doctrine then it is the sovereignty of the whim a Brexiters want what they want with no understanding of the consequences or feasiblity just like toddlers
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