> On 19 Nov 2018, at 11:57, Steve Cottrell <co...@seeingeye.tv> wrote: > > On 18/11/18, Daniel J. Matyola, discombobulated, unleashed: > >> I am not inviting a political debate or discussion, but from this side of >> the pond, it appears that the political system of the UK i coming apart at >> the seams over Brexit. I'm certain it is stressful and discomforting for >> everyone over there. >> >> Being a Brit these days must be almost as uncomfortable as being a devotee >> of a camera brand that is being deserted by the company that now owns the >> brand, > > Haha. Yep we're all just stopping in our tracks and imploding on the > sidewalks. The mess is bearable as long as you've got surgical gowns on. > > Everyone is just going about their daily business and nothing has changed. > The future will prove interesting for us - there will doubtless be a general > election announced in the coming days - Theresa May will not be able to get > her Brexit bill through parliament, kicking off no-confidence vote, and > leading to the inevitable. What happens then is anyone's guess. > > We're British - we're more interested in the weather. >
Well, if you can bear it take a look at the Brexit-related comments on some of the BBC forums - I'm sure weather forums are not like that. The whole thing is a collective descent into madness. There is no reasoned discussion, and the reason the Leave won and Remain lost is that Leave played on the emotional aspects of it all, while Leave tried to play to reason. But it is not an issue where reason really matters for most people - I for one am pro-Europe by emotion at least as much as I am by reason. What it means is that the arguments are simply playground mud-slinging and very tiresome once you're past the initial entertainment of it all. The problem is, if there's another referendum and Remain wins, the Leave camp will never shut up, they will beaver away obsessively just as they did after the 1974 referendum, with their lies and prejudices and bigotry. If Leave win I suspect Remain will accept that the war is over and the bad guys won. I did march in favour of another referendum a couple of weeks ago, with 700,000 others - I don't think we'll get one, but I think it's important to make our voice heard because there is a real slide towards tyranny of the majority, and the notion of winner takes all, even though the Leave majority was less than 4%. It's a very worrying slide. The other thing is that if we do indeed leave it will be the leave voters who suffer from the economic consequences, not the leaders of the Leave movement, who are feathering their own nests and intend to strip the workers of their rights as soon as they get the chance, or the middle-class oldies like me. They are robber barons of the worst sort, lying, conniving little shits who've used people to further their own interests. I'm a mild-mannered sort of chap, but I'd to see the whole fucking lot of them hanging from lampposts in Parliament Square. In the name of tolerance and democracy. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
