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Liberal Leavers had a plan. It would never have won competing in a straight 2-way fight against the status quo.
If EUref ballot had offered Remain vs Flexcit-type plan (move to EFTA/EEA for long time), result would have been maybe 70/30 for Remain (?).
The fact is Leave won EUref by amassing 52%., which it only did by appealing to ppl who wanted contradictory things.
#SchroedingersBrexit: simultaneously encompassing a multitude of mutually exclusive possibilities, appealing to different groups...
For example, #SchroedingersBrexit = 1) small govt free-trading Singapore-on-Thames 2) protectionist English ethnostate & 3) socialist Lexit
That’s wonderful as a campaigning tool for winning a binary vote when the country’s mood is already tilted towards political insurrection...
...but it’s fuck-all use afterwards when you actually have to deliver on the wild (& mutually incompatible) expectations you have exploited.
On having to deliver something (ie triggering A50 & negotiating), Schroedinger’s Brexit becomes a millstone; the coalition disintegrates.
[Short digression: of course, blame for all the deficiencies in the EUref process lies mainly with CaMoron, not with the Leave side.]
But Liberal Leavers have been disgracefully irresponsible. Rode tiger of nativist populism. We wouldn’t be staring into the abyss otherwise.
And now they have the temerity to wring their hands about how badly it’s all going. “It’s a shambles - but nothing to do with us, guv.”
If our country is now imperilled by the risk of catastrophic hard Brexit, that’s in no small part due to decisions made by Liberal Leavers.
We wouldn’t find ourselves in this mess if they hadn’t colluded with bigots, zealots & fanatics. But they take no responsibility whatsoever.
I admire ppl who admit their mistakes & take responsibility for them. I think it’s important to do so. Never get that from Liberal Leavers.
Liberal Leavers are among the most arrogant, smug, self-satisfied ppl I have met on twitter. They say this:
Liberal Leavers also say things like this: Remainers who are still angry are “indistinguishable from hard Brexiters”
When they say Remainers should work with them to get our country out of the mess they helped put it in, I’d like to know two things...
a) what compromise they are offering (compared to their original aim) & b) how they are taking responsibility for getting us into this mess.
Sure I’ll work to avert the catastrophic car crash we face *thanks to you self-satisfied twats having handed the car keys to maniacs* but...
I am not going to let you off the hook & give your consciences an easy ride by shutting up about the fact that you are deeply culpable.
I want to hear some contrition & humility from you twats. You could see the insanity of some of the ppl on your EUref side, but pressed on.
And if you don’t like being asked to take some responsibility for the dire state the country finds itself in, tough. Deal with it.
Lastly, if the disastrous mess being made of Brexit means it collapses altogether, good. ///
