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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
Gotta feel a bit sorry for the Brexiters on the thread tonight. More triggers for them here than an Only Fools and Horses boxset.  |
Not sure why you think this … it’s as if you’ve blanked everything we’ve been saying to you for the last 5 years.
Brexit is, and always has been, about fundamental changes in the way British laws are made and democratic accountability is ensured. Sure, for some people the symptoms of those things were what energised them to vote leave, rather than the principles themselves, but that’s fine with us because when it came to it, the democratic deficit became intolerable, as we knew it would. If something can’t continue, it won’t. That’s the irresistible gravitational force of politics. Brexit was always inevitable sooner or later.
In the face of that, Remainers never were able to muster a compelling philosophical argument in favour of the European Union. All their energy was expended on trying to use the likely short term difficulties of extricating ourselves from it to scare people, ultimately to little effect. In the event, the sky hasn’t fallen in and life has gone on. Remainers have been left with egg on their faces, and with a compulsive need to haunt forums like this, trumping up every little thing they read in the Grauniad and the “Independent” into a calamity, such is the gnawing fear that they (whisper it) might have been wrong.
Meanwhile, the first fruits of Brexit appear, as businesses accustomed to undercutting British wages with short-term east European imported labour discover that no, they really aren’t going to get away with that any longer. Sure it will mess their plans up this year and maybe next, but guess what … the 40 years we were in the EU were the aberration, not the 40 before that and not the 40 yet to come.
Stop cutting yourself up over it. Everything’s going to be just fine.