Posted by dovetailjoint on August 29, 2019, 7:57 pm, in reply to "Re: The day after"
It's a very British type of... coup, but it's still a coup. A mere handful of liberalist fanatics have taken control of the government and intend to crash the UK out of the EU regardless of the costs to ordinary people, who will pay the price for a nationalist fantasy about 'sovereignty.' For a country like the UK, so integrated into the economic structure of the EU, this is a close to economic madness as it gets.
Brexit was a ridiculous idea in the first place. The referendum a farce. 'Democracy' at its worst.
If people think the splits caused by the referendum were bad and needless, well we're only at the beginning. The consequences of a 'no' weren't thought through by the leading Tories because no one believed for a second that the result would be a 'no' because it made absolutely zero economic sense.
The coming election will probably be evern worse. An election where the PM asks the people for a mandate to undermine parliamentary democracy itself, is extraordinarily reckless, dangerous and divisive. Just what the country doesn't need.
A sensible compromise would have been to 'leave' the EU, but not really leave. Brexit in name only. One could have pretended to 'listen to the people', but only pretended; which is the usual way, after all. Decisions like this are way too complex and important to be decided by a referendum.
The price for this nationalist fantasy is way too high, and what's worse still, is how unecessary and irrelevant it all is compared to the real challenges we face as a nation.