JK,
What you refer to as irony was my answer to your question. All you were doing for the most part was project fear of saying look at this and that it is all falling apart - all this being short term, myopia, of what seems to be going on now. My proposal is about how things will span out in the long term and that being for the better.
No, the irony was that the “running away” is being done by the Brexiters – specifically running away from the huge geopolitical issues that confront us by hiding in the garden shed in the hope that it’ll all go away.
So-called project fear said that certain consequences would follow, and they have – and then some as the likely break up of the Union was, if anything, underplayed. Whether these are short-term issues or the first steps to long term decline, increased risk and levelling out at about the same size economy and diplomatic influence of Slovakia is something neither you nor I know. What I
do know is that the risk of this happening is significantly greater than it was a week ago.
The Brexiters that might be doing this are the ones who joined the Leavers at the last minute as an expedient act of selfishness. Many aren't but are calling for calm as many Remainers (especially the young) are now panicking, kicking up the dust and scaring the 'horses'. Liam Fox is one of these calm voices and of course our wonderful Nigel.
Your “wonderful Nigel” is a populist rabble rouser of the worst kind, endlessly looking for people to blame for economic and social ills with no discernible understanding of the real causes of either, let alone of the solutions.
As for young people, what they’re responding to is the grim realisation that the freedoms and opportunities so hard won over recent decades and now treated as commonplace are about to be snatched away by an unholy alliance of little Englander right wing ideologues who will be long gone when it all comes crashing down and it’s left to those very young people to pick up the pieces – assuming there are still any pieces left.
2030 History GSCE Paper 1
1. What went so badly wrong after the 2016 In/Out referendum?
2. Who was to blame?
3. Where are they now?
So what are the facts as you see them?
The same as they were a few posts ago when I told you what they are.
As for your last bit the problem here is that those twats in whatever gave the official leave group to Vote-Leave and not Leave.EU or GO. The other problem is that most of the Commons have pro-EU MPs and the Leave campaigners had/have no governmental power to implement any plans, even if they have some (especially those who have a long standing anti-EU rhetoric). In essence the Leavers are not a single coherent group with one vision but a menagerie of who ever wanted to join their ship. This is why I want Farage and UKIP to take charge of the negotiations with other long standing anti-EU people.
Hideous thought. And the real problem by the way is that just enough people bought the very lies the Brexiters are now frantically rowing back from to swing the referendum the wrong way.
