Reply To: Project Fear

[Gurnelista]

JI, all your post illustrates is that you can’t bear to accept you were sold a pup about Brexit. You’ve been persuaded of things that aren’t true. It’s no good having a tantrum about the comments of others on here. You know you’ve been had, and you’re raging at reality.

You comment on Brexit making the UK more democratic. The Tory party is actually making it less so. But, if you’re so concerned about democracy then why not start with the House of Lords, especially the Lords Spiritual? And, reform of the electoral system, instead of imagining it would be better to inflict economic harm on yourself and the rest of the country?

As for the state of many EU nations, socially, economically and politically, leaving the EU has put us at the bottom of all those leagues, so where is the argument that we’re better off out?

But most incredible is your comment that it’s still early days to make a genuine assessment, that it’s better to wait ten or maybe thirty years to make confident conclusions about leaving the EU! Then again you apparently voted remain but were happy leave won!! With opinions like that I’m surprised you can operate a computer, JI. Where do you get your information?

Think back and take stock for a moment. Remember how in 2014-15 the recession was biting hard. The way the government had imposed its austerity plan meant that many ordinary working folk, as well as those needing care and support – the very young, the sick and elderly – were being punished for the failings of the money markets miles away.

The Tories were losing votes to UKIP, and Cameron saw that Farage’s USP was offering a referendum on EU membership. So he chose to do likewise, believing that he’d win back ‘wobbling’ Tories, silence the far right loonies in his party, bring unity, and although it was a gamble, ‘remain’ would win. He was wrong, of course and resigned.

Then, post Brexit, we had Tory client journalists in the Telegraph, Express, Mail and Sun, all cheerleading the subsequent leaders, before each one got defenestrated by their own MP’s just months later. It seems the press were fully cognisant that Brexit would be awful, but realized the party had reached a point where success would depend on amplifying its lies & endorsing its nonsense, which it did and still does with aplomb.

Meanwhile, the crisis gets worse and worse, as do the lies, and here we are, with more and more coming to wonder why they ever supported Johnson, Trump, Farage and co., as they rage at being taken for a ride.

Really, Johnson is no more than a Benny Hill tribute act, but more dangerous. A totalitarian would argue there was no reason not to crowdfund a gibbet for him. As it is, he should just fade away into obscurity.