jessilin0113 wrote: ↑Thu Dec 12, 2019 9:28 pm
That sucks. Most of the people have changed their mind on Brexit, from my understanding.
The sequence of events was more or less as follows:
A faction wanting Britain to leave the EU moved the Conservative party towards the right be challenging 'soft' tories at selection.
The had fewer supporters, but used a steady drip of stories blaming Islam, Immigrants and Corrupt EU Bureaucrats for all Britain's woes (ignoring the more obvious sources of rising inequality and stagnation for the lower half), intensified their level of support among those who did support them, thus ensuring a higher percentage turnout of their supporters at elections.
Cameron allowed a referendum to happen that didn't specify precisely what type of Brexit (either the "keep Northern Ireland" or "Stop EU citizens working in the UK") was on offer, which allowed opponents to promise all things to all men (falsely claiming that both could happen at the same time).
Due to abysmal campaigning (especially by Labour, because Corbyn was at heart a Leaver), and a lot of false promises that the media didn't sufficiently penalise them over, the Leave campaign won the 2016 advisory referendum.
The Leavers promptly sabotaged any chance of a soft exit, and blamed the delays on the Remainers, promising that once they were given 'proper' power, they could sort it all out.
They've now been given full power. And guess what? They're still not going to be able to deliver a solution that prevents immigration and yet leaves Ireland a happy part of the UK. But by the time people realise this, it will be far too late, because we'll have left, and won't be able to rejoin for at least another decade. All the bridges have been burned, the last chances wasted, and the leaving is now inevitable. :-(
So, yeah, in 10 year's time the UK will have split from Ireland, and probably Scotland too. Which, for the English Defence League and their ilk, is a price they're happy to pay.
Pity about the NHS.
