MM
2018-07-21 08:58:18 UTC
Once again, Sky News yesterday produced a new edition of The Pledge
where once again the topic of Brexit came up, and once again the
diehard Brexiters on the panel were still convinced that Brexit is the
right thing to do.
Their unwavering position on Brexit is now descending into religious
fervour. An absolute refusal to acknowledge any downside of a no deal
Brexit is just as impossible to challenge as it would be to persuade
Americans to give up their guns or creationists to start looking at
Darwin. This doesn't surprise me very much, as it has been shown
unequivocally that most Brexit voters were not well informed about all
the details of what leaving the EU means. And now, secretly, a number
of the more intelligent ones, comparatively, reluctantly accept, to
themselves in private, if to no one else, that it WILL be very, very
bad for the UK if we crash out without a deal. But the one thing
Brexiters find most difficult to deal with is ridicule. They cannot,
must not, will not own up to having got their new religion wrong.
Therefore, the only solution for them is to fall back on to a belief
system with oft-repeated mantras like Brexit means Brexit. Perhaps an
old church somewhere, instead of being sold off, could be
re-consecrated as The Church of Brexit, so that at least there'd be
somewhere to pray for the Brexiters among us.
MM
where once again the topic of Brexit came up, and once again the
diehard Brexiters on the panel were still convinced that Brexit is the
right thing to do.
Their unwavering position on Brexit is now descending into religious
fervour. An absolute refusal to acknowledge any downside of a no deal
Brexit is just as impossible to challenge as it would be to persuade
Americans to give up their guns or creationists to start looking at
Darwin. This doesn't surprise me very much, as it has been shown
unequivocally that most Brexit voters were not well informed about all
the details of what leaving the EU means. And now, secretly, a number
of the more intelligent ones, comparatively, reluctantly accept, to
themselves in private, if to no one else, that it WILL be very, very
bad for the UK if we crash out without a deal. But the one thing
Brexiters find most difficult to deal with is ridicule. They cannot,
must not, will not own up to having got their new religion wrong.
Therefore, the only solution for them is to fall back on to a belief
system with oft-repeated mantras like Brexit means Brexit. Perhaps an
old church somewhere, instead of being sold off, could be
re-consecrated as The Church of Brexit, so that at least there'd be
somewhere to pray for the Brexiters among us.
MM