I remember the first Leave voter I spoke to, pre referendum. I asked him to explain his reasoning. "It will be better" he said. When pushed he really couldn't go any deeper than "It just will".
I've yet to really hear anything more lucid and cogent from a Leaver. Locally, I asked Rick James to explain his reasoning here, and his reply was that he didnt need to because "his side has won".
The most you will get are some banal meaningless slogans, or some sort of half-baked conspiracy theory about EU armies etc (whilst being seemingly content with NATO membership, and a foreign army (US) parked on our lawn) nor having the wit to notice that Trump's US is disengaging and increasingly isolationist, so that we had better start organising ourselves collectively to fill the defence gap.
They've shut up about being ruled from Brussels now that they have realised that the UK parliament is sovereign, but theyve shown that they dont actually believe in UK law (not that they understand it) They've shut up about the Euro ("remember when we were told that not joining the Euro would be a disaster and look how that turned out...why should we believe their warnings about Brexit now!") Yes...look how it did turn out...the pound is now so weak and the Euro so strong that they are effectively at parity.
Sometimes you'll get some sort of explanation that it is the grievance of the class who have no voice and they have spoken. Yes, there is a forgotten class and they have spoken, in one huge collective uneducated* "Durrr". What you wont get is an explanation as to which aspects of EU membership have affected them personally, and how leaving the EU will solve any of the entrenched problems in the UK and make their lives better.
(*voter analysis shows that the lower your educational attainment the more likely it is that you voted Leave)
That really sums up the intellectual level of these people, and yet they whine like hell when you put up a fight because their utter stupidity and gullibility will have a direct impact on your life and the life chances of your children.
You wont get an explanation, because there isnt one, and now we are at a point where it is almost a cult, with the puppet-masters manipulating people into anger and resentment against the very democratic structures whose survival Leave was purported to be about protecting. It's all about "the will of the people" now and the collective amnesia that the putative deal was going to be the 'easiest in history' and would be better than what we have currently within the EU. The amnesia that we could already have departed the EU if Rees-Mogg and Johnson and the other ultra-Brexiteers had not voted down Theresa May's deal, not once but three times.
So go on, Del. Enlighten us as to how leaving the most successful economic bloc in history, and putting ourselves in a position of complete isolation with cap in hand to everybody else is going to help anybody other than charlatan politicians who are making a career out of it and hedge-fund disaster capitalists who hope to make billions from the UKs economic downturn.
Enlighten us as to how it is that you think that Jacob Rees-Mogg, the epitome of privileged elite, a multi-millionaire through tax avoidance, whose company paid no corporation tax last year because it is registered in the Cayman Iands, has the interests of the British working class and people like you at heart?
The truth is you have been conned by liars and charlatans like Johnson, Rees-Mogg and Farage. But as Mark Twain said it is easier to fool a man that to get him to accept that he has been fooled.
p.s. even that hotbed of Marxism, the National Farmers Union, is running a campaign against the devastation that 'no deal' would cause to UK farming. (see link below) You wont have seen it though, from inside your little bubble, will you.
Its Project Fear, isnt it Del.
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