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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
I do strongly urge you to read my post again. My first sentence is about Brexit negotiations continuing. Hardly the words of someone who is in denial! For those of us like me who are in the business world, accepting and planning for Brexit is a given.
Quite how "I know you’ve erected a shell around yourself.." is bizarre when we've not met and had minimal interaction on this forum. Maybe you're confusing me with someone else?
Deal with it is just an aggressive instruction. I accept that it may not be to you.
One point of my post is what do you do if something has been fixed. If it's a football match, do you replay it? If it's the Olympics, you strip the winners of the medals?
I'm saddened that what I thought was a thoughtful, discussive post from me has been so severely misinterpreted. But I'm pleased to have the opportunity to set the record straight.
But it would also be great to hear if you are concerned that the Arron Banks criminal enquiry will discredit the Brexit vote.
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Chris has kindly reworded his post, so my remarks refer to the post quoted and not the one you have read.
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Andrew, earlier today you listed a series of predicted brexiteer responses to the news about Aaron Banks, including variations on the “deal with it” theme. This is what I mean about a “shell” - your predictions are designed to caricature and thereby diminish the views of those you disagree with in order to trivialise them. You can then safely ignore them. I don’t need to interact with you directly to see this ... the forum is public; I don’t post as much as I used to but I can, and do, read it.
If this is what works for you then fine ... but I don’t think it’s tenable in the long run because I don’t think anything that has happened since the vote poses any threat to the result of that vote. You are personally going to have to make peace with that. Might as well be sooner than later. And no, I don’t think there is anything Aaron Banks can be convicted of that will result in the result being discredited, short of wholesale ballot stuffing, and nobody has (yet) tried to claim there has been fraud of that type.