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Related: About this forumCancelling Brexit might spark a hard right backlash. But delivering Brexit definitely will
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The bottom line is, its hard to see any plausible scenario that wont disappoint Brexiteers, and lead to cries of betrayal. They were promised an impossible combination, of more money and fewer immigrants, greater influence and greater control. But they cant have all those things: real life requires compromise, and utopia does not exist. When that penny drops, theyre going to be angry and some of them are going to lash out.
So, yes: cancelling Brexit might trigger a hard right backlash. But I can see no way that delivering it wont do the same. The only difference is, well have less stuff when it happens.
[link:https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/staggers/2018/06/cancelling-brexit-might-spark-hard-right-backlash-delivering-brexit|
Much more at the link.... very interesting analysis - to sum up the whole article....we are all going to hell in a handbasket!
Denzil_DC
(7,187 posts)If politicians are cravenly going to point to the prospect of civil unrest, well, this country's not been slow to clamp down on that in the past.
If it's the prospect of electoral gains for the "hard right", then it's up to politicians to start doing their jobs and quit pandering to extremist views, rather than parroting that "they have a point" and vying with each other to see how far and how fast they can follow them down the various rabbit holes.
So what's the idea? - Give the "hard right" whatever they want, then they'll just pipe down and be satisfied? They won't be empowered and carry on demanding more and more and more? Really?
As the article so rightly points out, what may well empower the "hard right" is when they and the less "hard" who've fallen into step behind them finally realize that all the ills cynical bastards like Farage and his fellow travellers in the mainstream parties have been blaming on immigrants and the EU end up not being their fault at all.
Then what?