Thread by @MattCarr55

Considering their obsession w/ 'cancel culture', it's striking how the Brexit cultists always want to cancel anyone who stands in their way. Judges, civil servants, MPs , parliament, Newsnight, C4 News, 'lefty teachers', archbishops -now the CofE.

All a bit snowflakey, imho

https://twitter.com/patrickkmaguire/status/1318464683356098561

A cynic would think they aren't really that bothered about democracy at all - except insofar as democracy is enshrined in a narrow and divisive referendum victory that - in a serious democracy - would require some kind of democratic revisiting.

Taking into account the fierce divisions and multiple fissures it opened up in British society, and the discrepancy between the abstract principle of leaving and the actual technical details of how to do it without harming the economy and society.

Given the risks of very real harm that Brexit involves, you would expect democrats and patriots who really cared about their country to consult the best and widest advice available, in order to find the safest way to leave the EU and mitigate these risks

You would think, given the damaging schism inflicted on the country, you would want to find a compromise that would enable the country to go forward, by presenting whatever deal you came up with to the British public to see if they still accepted it. But no

Throughout this whole dismal process, Brexiters have sought to shut down critical voices or even voices wanting to subject the Brexit process to democratic scrutiny, whether calling judges 'traitors' or proroguing parliament

So it's no surprise to find that even the dear old Church of England has now incurred their wrath because the archbishops expressed moral and democratic qualms about the IMB.

And therefore you'll have to excuse me if I don't take the endless Brexit claims that 'Remoaners don't take democracy seriously', and if I conclude, on the basis of this kind of authoritarian behaviour, that too many Brexiters don't really care about democracy at all

Because from where I'm standing, it really does seem as though they are simply using 'democracy' as a rhetorical weapon to bludgeon and bully the country towards a hard Brexit whose negative consequences they ignore or even welcome

And that is why even the 'Tory party at prayer' is now in the firing line, and whatever you think about the House of Lords or religion, or the CofE, it is pretty chilling that someone like Steve Baker thinks he can tell the government to disestablish the church

And we should see this development for what it is - as another sign of the common threat to all of us posed by these Brexit 'democrats' who use Brexit as a political sledgehammer in order to give themselves total supremacy and silence anyone who criticizes them.