How do we resolve the Brexit mess?

[west didsblue]

"A “distraught” Boris Johnson declared “we’ve got no plan” when he realised Vote Leave would win the Brexit referendum, a new book claims.

Mr Johnson, who is widely credited with delivering the slim majority for Brexit, is said to have walked around his living room “looking ashen-faced and distraught”, muttering: “What the hell is happening? ... Oh s***, we’ve got no plan.

“We haven’t thought about it. I didn’t think it would happen. Holy c***, what will we do?”.

Anthony Seldon, who has written books on the Downing Street years of every British leader from Margaret Thatcher to David Cameron, has with Raymond Newell turned his pen on Mr Johnson."

So yeah, as we said a million times on here, even King Brexit himself knew it was going to be a disaster.

The thing is about Johnson, he might be a lying, lazy, scruffy, bumbling, crooked, narcissistic ****, but he’s not thick.

 

[bluethrunthru]

You won, get over it.

Had the vote gone the way I wanted I'd have retired to Spain last year as an EU passport holder...

 

[Didsbury Dave]

I’m always sceptical about unverifiable claims like this about Johnson, much as I was about claims that he hated the job of PM because of the workload and that he would leave the job in a relatively short time frame as a consequence. That account did not accord with his lust for power and this one does not accord with his stridency and instinct to make things up as he goes along.

He might be lots of things, but being daunted by the task ahead of him, any task ahead of him, is not one of them.

That’s sort of the root of the problem.

The moment I saw his face on the morning of the referendum i could see this was true. He was totally ashen faced. I think he thought that a referendum defeat would see him as PM but at that point he realised his chance was coming to be PM but it was suddenly a nightmare job. Despite the ebullience you refer to you didn't need to be a political or economic genius to know that leaving was a monumentally stupid thing to do.

I will also believe to my dying day that he and his closest cohorts were celebrating the onset of COVID because they knew it would give them cover.

 

[Bodicoteblue]

I’m always sceptical about unverifiable claims like this about Johnson, much as I was about claims that he hated the job of PM because of the workload and that he would leave the job in a relatively short time frame as a consequence. That account did not accord with his lust for power and this one does not accord with his stridency and instinct to make things up as he goes along.

He might be lots of things, but being daunted by the task ahead of him, any task ahead of him, is not one of them.

That’s sort of the root of the problem.

I think he was undaunted by the task ahead of him, because he never had any intention of actually doing any work.
He would simply pass it on to others so he could get on with his vacuous showboating.
He would hide in a fridge rather than answer simple questions from the public- says everything about him.
A complete fantasist who wanted to be PM, but didn’t want actually do the job.

 

[Uncle Wally One Ball]

I think he was undaunted by the task ahead of him, because he never had any intention of actually doing any work.
He would simply pass it on to others so he could get on with his vacuous showboating.
He would hide in a fridge rather than answer simple questions from the public- says everything about him.
A complete fantasist who wanted to be PM, but didn’t want actually do the job.

Agree. He wouldnt have shit the bed at the sudden realisation that Leave had narrowly won and there was no plan because he knew it all along. He didnt give a shit about a plan, he only wanted the status of achieving his lifelong aim of being PM which it brought and fuck the rest of it. Joker

 

[Come-on-City]

Don't understand why threads or even opinions like this are still relevant.

'Brexit' wasn't and still isn't the problem. It was and still is a win for democracy no matter what side you were on.

What is the problem is the useless tw@ts involved in trying to sort things out afterwards, who with a staggering lack of political acumin and selfish own agenda's have managed to balls up most aspects. C@nts.

 

[blueparrot]

Don't understand why threads or even opinions like this are still relevant.

'Brexit' wasn't and still isn't the problem. It was and still is a win for democracy no matter what side you were on.

What is the problem is the useless tw@ts involved in trying to sort things out afterwards, who with a staggering lack of political acumin and selfish own agenda's have managed to balls up most aspects. C@nts.

So how should it have worked, without fucking the country up ?

 

[Gabriel]

 

[Didsbury Dave]

Don't understand why threads or even opinions like this are still relevant.

'Brexit' wasn't and still isn't the problem. It was and still is a win for democracy no matter what side you were on.

What is the problem is the useless tw@ts involved in trying to sort things out afterwards, who with a staggering lack of political acumin and selfish own agenda's have managed to balls up most aspects. C@nts.

The "useless twats" who tried to instigate it are the same people who campaigned for it. That should tell you all you need to know if you can engage a couple of brain cogs to compute the 2+2.

But yeah, your own person Brexit would have worked, course it would.

 

[Chris in London]

Don't understand why threads or even opinions like this are still relevant.

'Brexit' wasn't and still isn't the problem. It was and still is a win for democracy no matter what side you were on.

What is the problem is the useless tw@ts involved in trying to sort things out afterwards, who with a staggering lack of political acumin and selfish own agenda's have managed to balls up most aspects. C@nts.

No it wasn't.

You might have had a point if the vote had been conducted lawfully. It wasn't. It can't be democratic if it was unlawful.

The "useless twats" defence doesn't fly either, for the simple reason that even the most talented and conscientious of administrations - which I grant you is a long way of being a description of any government since 2016 - couldn't have made a success of Brexit.

Because the whole idea is fucking stupid.