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Did a little reading up on the author of that piece who is apparently opposed to a GNU 'on deontological grounds' (for fucks actual sake).
I also found this bit of the piece quite interesting:
"A government of national unity identifies the whole nation with the part opposed to a no-deal Brexit. It not only ignores the will of the other part of the nation, inclined to leave the EU, and indeed leave by October 31st, but denies its claim to be part of the nation, even in name."
This is straight out of the Steve Bannon playbook - accuse your enemy of what you yourself are doing. It wasn't Remainers going round telling Brexiters that they were 'the people' and 48% are citizens of nowhere, metropolitan liberal elites, saboteurs, traitors, etc. That approach has failed. I don't think a GNU will work either, but it's better than continuing with the same old rhetoric and hoping that something will turn up before the 31st Oct.
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yes, and you'd have to argue that any GNU that contains Labour would actually be representing a good number of both leave and remain voters.
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"A government of national unity identifies the whole nation with the part opposed to a no-deal Brexit.
Em, really? So a conservative government identifies the whole nation as conservative supporters?
It not only ignores the will of the other part of the nation, inclined to leave the EU, and indeed leave by October 31st,
Well yes, if you don't exactly get your own way you are ignored (sound of eyerolling)
but denies its claim to be part of the nation, even in name."
Is that even proper English????
Also NI/Scotland/Wales now don't want to Brexit anymore, but "the nation" is shorthand for "England"?
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JWestland
That article seems way off-beam to me and very Brexiteerish. She's arguing against a GNU on the basis that it takes power away from the people and turns it into a "professional decision" for MPs. But from the moment that the referendum result came in as a more-or-less equal split, it's always been exactly that i.e., how do you actually enact this thing for which the public has (just about) expressed its support but for which there is no clear roadmap? Various factions have tried to pull the Brexit process towards their own political ends to get the type of brexit they want (and which they claim is thewillofthepeople(TM)). GNU is an attempt to prevent individual minority factions from hijacking the process precisely because it forces people to cooperate.
"Just like the denial of authority to the seventeen million or so citizens who voted Brexit, the denial of dignity to the half-million Labour members represented by Corbyn reveals the enduring inability of pro-Remain elites to comprehend, let alone relate to, opinions they oppose."
What utter balls. The majority of Labour voters voted to remain, so suggesting that "pro-Remain elites" don't understand the concerns of people who also voted remain is just nonsensical. More to the point, most remain voters (let alone voters in general) are not Corbynites so any coalition/GNU that actually wants to build unity (around a remain platform or otherwise), should be headed by someone who is less clearly divisive.