journolud
Well-Known Member
I don't know if I would be in your target audience for this but the reason I didn't reply is because I think your point lacks merit. I agree it's pretty futile to moan about how Brexit is going, like it's pretty futile to predict a team line up before a match, complain about the presence of particular players, moan through the matchday thread and after if we lose, unless of course you are going to personally contact pep with some advice on how he can set the team up better. If we were to steer clear of futile exercises on bluemoon then all we would have left to post in would be worsleywebs what are you doing this weekend threads. (Which I'm not knocking by the way)
Brexit was a complex issue that most of us, if we're being honest, would say we couldn't fully comprehend, let alone have the time to research in depth and then campaign on, most of us don't have the time, or the inclination, to get so immersed in a subject and campaign about it and I'm sure many of us voted without the full knowledge of how it would end up but with a leaning towards remain or leave that may have had an emotional aspect to it.
Naively or otherwise we tend to rely on "experts" to advise us but when there were such conflicting views about the potential impact of Brexit it's no wonder that most people would have gone with their gut instincts and then leant towards the information that supported that view.
Both sides made pretty definitive statements- the remain side did indeed run a pretty poor campaign and some of their most drastic predictions haven't come true. The leave side for their part made some promises which have been shown to be lies and we see daily stories of those who have or are losing out because of Brexit. The upsides, if and when they come are likely a long way off.
I'm resigned to us being out, I think it's a mistake but see no value in campaigning to return. Does my somewhat passive approach to the referendum in the lead up and since disbar me from having a view and the right to express it? Does it fuck.
We are in the middle of a pandemic, people's mental health is suffering and we're a little stir crazy. Meanwhile Brexit is unravelling before our eyes. Nobody is forced to come on this thread, there are hundreds of others but it is absolutely relevant to post links to stories outlining the actual effects of Brexit, not the perceived or predicted ones. Those who advocated Brexit and remain confident that it is a good idea are free to post alternative views and maybe, just maybe, there might be shift as the good news begins to outweigh the bad. At the moment though the positives you posted elsewhere feel like little more than consolation goals in a 5-1 drubbing.
