Thread by @DMinghella

There's this idea, now infecting even the Remain "side", that Remainers ought to be moving to a more accommodating, accepting position. No. Leavers ought to be putting their hands up and admitting this is not the Brexit they promised or intended, and showing some humility.

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Nor is it a question of "meeting in the middle", fond as I am of compromise. Remainers did not bring this about, nor lie to achieve it; they did not take away people's rights and freedoms; they did not "fuck" business. They do not continue to lie about its "upside".

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But the bottom line is this: the exhortation to "come together" is not genuine. On the tail end of "You lost, get over it", in the wake of a FAR harder Brexit than anyone contemplated in 2016, and with no attempt to offer the remotest comfort to Remainers, it amounts simply

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to fake conciliation, a smirking request to a victim not for forgiveness but solidarity, even gratitude - as someone here said, like watching your house burn down and then being invited by your unrepentant arsonist to "come together". Let's call this what it is: gaslighting.

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PS. Can there ever be a rapprochement? For the sake of our country, there has to be. But it cannot start with an instruction to approve; instead it needs an honest conversation, and a truthful appraisal of what we now know Brexit to mean. We're a long way from that.