Entirely missing from either story is the streets. Those rainy streets outside polling stations where on 23 June 2016 people queued up, many of them for the first time in years. The slim majority opting to leave did so not necessarily because they cared much about the EU, but as part of a giant vote against the establishment.
Not obvious that the feeling has gone away as yet either.
Slim majority = standard attempt to rewrite history.
A slim majority is when you win a constituency by 11 votes.
1,269,501 votes.
One of those numbers I never need to look up, because I’ve used it so many times when I’ve been told that the result 52/48, as though we only won by four votes.
The establishment was the EU. The EU ran Britain. These people wanted to stop that.
The flip side of that was the number of people who voted “Remain” out of horror of the great unwashed, who themselves didn’t actually care about the EU either.
The turnout in the 2014 EU parliament elections was 35.6% and UKIP got the highest number of votes. Most Labour voters couldn’t have picked Glenis Willmott out of a lineup of one – they were just voting against the coalition/Tories. All these ardent Europeans who sprung up after the referendum result are full of shit.
One reason it’s impossible to argue with lots of people about Brexit is that they conceptualise it backwards. They quite sincerely believe leaving was the gamble and (undefined, unplanned) membership of the European project was the “status quo”. As a result they’ll constantly demand a standard of proof of leaving while asking nothing of remaining.
Being members of the most ambitious political project of all time and not paying any attention to it is bad, actually.
Most Remainer and Rejoin arguments I see generally fall in to 2 categories:
In the first case those people are too childish to be allowed to vote in any election, in the 2nd case we just need to keep bashing them with the cluebat.
“In the first case those people are too childish to be allowed to vote in any election”
Beautiful
The leaflet the Government delivered to every home failed to mention how we benefited from being part of that project we didn’t care about. The closest it came was devoting an entire page to the rather trivial discussion that thanks to the EU we get roaming free as part of our phone contract, yet here we are 10 years later and I still get free roaming to all EU countries plus some others.
I sent my copy back to “The Rt Dishon David Quisling MP, 10 Downing St, etc”.
Didn’t bother to put a stamp on it though, no idea if he got the postage-to-pay demand too.
Project Fear just has not eventuated. So they lied to us. They never did tell just what was so damn good about being in the EU. I don’t think they even knew in terms of practical things rather than a warped vision of Utopia delivered by people like Jean-Claude Juncker .
Funny that, the British Establishment consistently acts against the interests of the British people so, when given a chance, the British people vote to stick two fingers up to them.
Maybe the Establishment should try to act for the benefit of the British people instead?
Ha ha ha
Poor naive boy…
🙂
“If All Men Were Princes”……
Are there any events planned to celebrate the tenth anniversary?
How about making the bitter-enders fly the EU flag upside down outside their homes and businesses? Decent folk will then know who to shun.
“fly the EU flag upside down”
I was going to say it’s symmetrical, but looking at it the stars have five points, so it doesn’t have vertical symmetry. So yes, nice idea.
A better result would be making it illegal to fly the EU flag due to it still being offensive to us “leave” voters, hence flying it would be a hate crime.
Why bother to queue up to vote, when you can simply send in multiple votes under assumed names, from the comfort of your social HMO?