Thread by @uk_domain_names

Here's the most 2020 way the next few days can play out...
1. Boris Johnson goes to Brussels and "beats" the EU. He returns clutching the (thin) deal that couldn't be done. "Hail the conquering hero" adulation from RW press.
2. Labour whips in favour of a deal and co-owns Brexit.

First doses of the vaccine distributed (genuine good news story) and the impossible Brexit deal secured, all in the space of 48 hours or so.

There won't be space in these isles for Boris Johnson's ego after that, especially when the pet media are finished with him.

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Come 1 January most people will have moved on, distracted by Christmas bubbling and arrangements for celebrating or not celebrating the New Year.

So when Brexit problems hit, they will be shrugged off with a "temporary teething troubles". And enough people will buy that lie.

Especially if Labour, having only just voted for Brexit, decide it's electorally prudent for the party not to emphasise those problems too much, eg by focusing VERY hard on domestic issues like in the run-up to the 2017 GE.

Thus, the final betrayal of Remainers will be complete.

We will have destroyed the UK economy, its reputation and standing in the world for the pleasure of a minority (52% of those who voted in the referendum) with not one single atom of an attempt to find a more inclusive way out of Brexit that would encompass everyone else.

It's like the winners of a war sowing every square inch of their conquered land with plutonium so that nothing can live on it for thousands of years. After making no provision for the population they just beat.