There was information there if people wanted to inform themselves. Instead, they preferred to wallow in nostalgia, get swept up in xenophobia, and believe twits with glib soundbites. Johnson was and is an opportunist, but too many, particularly in England, fell for it and gave him the opportunity.They weren't given any information to think over. Both campaigns were very bad regarding this. The remain camp should have hammered home details, debunked myths and given people stuff to think sensibly on but failed to. The leave campaign was an outright bucket of lies poured over brainless soundbites backed up by a huge misinformation campaign. And to think it was all so unnecessary. Self inflicted wound be fucked. Never known anything so ridiculous. This **** Johnson actually had plans for both camps and picked the one that suited his ambition best. Shameless ****
I agree with the essence of that though it does rather absolve those on the Left who also wanted Brexit. This situation is what 17,410,742 people voted for, and those who now claim ‘this isn’t what I voted for’ are actually admitting ’I didn’t really think about it’ in 2016.
Nowhere near gone.Hold the celebration he has not gone, he’s holding a cabinet meeting this afternoon and staying on until ???
This is the brexit effect. For years thick tories wanted to leave the EU but the intelligent ones knew it would be a disaster. This goes all the way back to the Thatcher era where the establishment tories held off the anti EU loonies.
Cameron tried to shut the loonies up with a ref - hoping to win and draw a line under it.
Having voted to leave the loonies have more power, they ousted May and backed Boris and over that time frame decent tories have been leaving in droves, hence why we have a cabinet of lightweight idiots and no good candidates to take over.
Brexit has always been the idiots choice and the tory part is becoming a party of idiots as a result. No doubt the next leader will need the approval of the loonies and therefore we will continue down this road.
Are you suggesting that EVERYONE who voted leave didn't understand the risks, or were otherwise uninformed?There was information there if people wanted to inform themselves. Instead, they preferred to wallow in nostalgia, get swept up in xenophobia, and believe twits with glib soundbites. Johnson was and is an opportunist, but too many, particularly in England, fell for it and gave him the opportunity.
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One of the most depressing aspects of this last couple of days is the number of people who parrot off the line about Johnson getting brexit 'done' . As though it were even remotely true. He didn't get it done. He barely got it started. Sady for all of us whether you are remain or leave, brexit is a bureaucratic and administrative quagmire that is still going to be being argued about, negotiated and newsworthy for many, many years yet.
Don't forget Cummings is up to his eye balls in this shit show. He was an enabler of liars and idiots and is now trying to come over as some sort of authority on what should have happened and how these politicians were not up to the job. Well plenty of shit happened when he was running the offices of these crooks and he was the one that got them to high office.Get the feeling if Johnson tries to stay as PM until September Cummings will publish everything he has on him