After a referendum in 1933 Goebbels said the "will of the people is the will of the government and vice versa" and that Parliament would not be allowed to block the execution of the nation's will.
This was the fascist dogma that prevailed for 2 years after the 2016 referendum.
This was the fascist dogma that prevailed for 2 years after the 2016 referendum.
For around 2 years after the referendum, on the topic of Brexit, the UK was not a functioning democracy. A climate of populist intimidation silenced and terrorised politicians into plaintive expressions of their respect for the "Will of the People".
This climate of intimidation, this near total silencing of views dissenting from Brexit orthodoxy prevented the Remain message from reaching most of the public for around two years, grotesquely perverting the course of Brexit politics.
That Brexit has now happened is almost certainly a direct consequence of that 2 years of populist intimidation. Brexit media & politicians used the fascist tactic of invoking the "Will of the People" to suppress the core democratic right to oppose, and they used it successfully.
