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I do worry that if we manage to reverse Brexit without addressing the concerns of this latter group of people, we'll just end up with the same anger coming out in other ways.
I think that's going to happen even if we don't reverse Brexit. Brexit certainly isn't going improve things for them. But I agree that if Brexit does get stopped it ideally needs to be through another ref or a general election if there is a hope of reducing the division it's already created.
My current best case outcome is something like this:
March 2019:
UK: Shit shit shit we still haven't got a deal and run out of time, we are about to crash out, ground planes etc. Eu, you have got to give us an extension of A50 for all our sakesEU: Ok then, but this isn't a license to fuck around for another two years. Tell us how long you need to agree a deal with us or decide on no deal, cost and plan for it, and get the day 1 infrastructure sorted. We will extend once by the amount of time you ask for, on the condition that between deciding, costing and planning, and actually starting work, there is a milestone where you have another referendum to decide between the fully fleshed out Leave proposal and remaining in the EU.
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That'd be almost ideal - lots of bum squeaking but get things sorted out democratically.
But it kind of proves my point. While we're all focussing on the technical ways of getting through Brexit, we're not actually doing any work for the people who did the eye poke in the first place. We're not actually having a conversation about what we do for people whose jobs are taken by automation. We're not discussing how we can look after or educate people who can't compete in a global marketplace for jobs. We're not renovating the welfare system, and we're not talking about when we can finally end austerity. We're not actually solving the root of the problem; and that's one thing when it comes to preventing another Brexit, but it's also a moral failing which we should look to for the sake of our own souls.
ReekBlefs
I'm reading Robert Peston's book WTF at the moment. He makes a strong argument that while we remainers spend a lot of time railing against the retired home-owning euro-sceptic gammons, we shouldn't bother, a) because they'll never change their mind, and b) because loud as they are, they didn't win Brexit on their own. He makes the point that Brexit would never have reached 52% were it not for the gammons forming an unlikely voting bloc with those at the bottom of society, i.e.
While I don't give a monkeys about offending gammons, I do worry that if we manage to reverse Brexit without addressing the concerns of this latter group of people, we'll just end up with the same anger coming out in other ways.