Dear Hope,
I am but a simple man, I don't know much about the ways of politicians, but I read and try and sift my way through the detritus, I look out on the real world and try to determine the why.
I would disagree, Gonners. If you look at the places that voted heavily to leave - such as Blaenau Gwent, Grimsby, etc. the votes were Labour votes.
Absolutely correct, why? the Tory party has let them down, a failure to invest in this countries infrastructure, a failure to be seen to be proactively going after the big guns, the one's who siphon off billions from our country, instead they target the weak and defenceless.
Your ordinary Labour voter has listened to the propaganda and thought, yes that's who to blame, johnny foreigner, our over stretched NHS, johnny foreigner, absolutely nothing to do with a governments failure to invest properly.
The British people did not need a choice, it was foisted on them by right wing Tories and the yapping's of the UKIP, yes the EU needed to be reformed but that required strong leadership, can you honestly say we have strong leadership when they target the weak and leave the rich to continually siphon off the profits.
What else could he do but resign? Are you suggesting that he ought to hold onto the post of PM, even though the country's direction will be going diametrically opposite to that which he wanted?
Of course he had to resign, he wanted out anyway, he lost, his gamble with millions of live's failed, he didn't need to gamble, he could have told his fellow Tories and UKIP to shut the fuck up, he could have invested in the very area's you mention, but he didn't, the Labour voters who voted to leave, a protest vote, but their protest is at the wrong thing, yes the EU needs reforming but it is the Tory parties failures that need protesting against.
On what grounds do you make this accusation? For instance, it was David Cameron who insisted that our International Aid Budget should match the UN's suggested 0.7% of GNP - a development that was refused by Labour and, as far as I'm aware, wasn't even mentioned in the SNP manifesto (though they did have a Scotland-specific budget). The Welfare Budget had to be looked at - something that Labour wouldn't dare to do; whether the Coalition/Tory governments have done it as well as they might have done is open to debate, but at least they have tried.
Simple, on the grounds of a Sass post, all her posts shouting about our own home grown failures to protect our own weak and vulnerable, we have been constantly told that Britain is the fifth richest country in the world but we still have foodbanks, we still have homeless, we still have poverty on our own streets, this is not an EU problem, this is a government problem who is wedded to a grotesque thing called austerity.
So when I say unChristian, turning a blind eye to a problem which we have the means to fix, when I say unBritish, failing to help our poor and needy, no matter what nationality, if they are on our streets it is our problem, that to me has always been the British way.
Using your arguments here, Labour, the SNP, UKIP - in fact just about every political party - should disband because none of them have done anything other than play politics.
Well maybe I can agree with that, but this whole mess is Tory mess, we did not need a referendum, and we certainly did not need a referendum so quickly, no one in the Tory party expected this, they did not plan for this, that is obvious from the reaction of the leave and remain Tories.
So I still say, kick the Tories out, the country has voted to leave, let others who do have the best interests of this country at heart negotiate our leaving.
Gonnagle.
