Soft or Hard Brexit? Turkeys voting for Xmas?
The UK is crying out for enlightened liberals to accept Brexit and put forward their vision. A positive vision moulded by them that almost anyone could sign up for. The irony is their current, whining, denials and attempts to paint Brexiteers as evil is badly backfiring on them. Far from avoiding Brexit or being able to ‘soften’ the fall from their imaginary ‘cliff’ their current strategy is pushing the UK rapidly towards the hardest possible Brexit along with the early salvos from the EU themselves. They need to wake up and do it quickly, for the good of the whole country. Because whilst I am a very strong advocate of leaving the EU I think I would actually find it hard to disagree with any of the positive ideas that might be put forward once we can all accept we are on the same side - the truth is we really want pretty much exactly the same things.
Why doesn’t it happen? Because the likes of Clegg, Farron, Blair, Mandelson and co aren’t really in it for anything but themselves. They don’t have anything positive to say, no vision except for their determination to give the EU control and have their career paths laid out before them. The tragedy of the situation is that their dogma only drives the right to more extreme demands, emboldens the EU to make ever-more-crazy demands and stops the populous uniting and starting to move forward positively again. It was a rough campaign but it cannot have failed (I hope) to knock off a few of the hardest edges of militants on either side of the debate by the time it was finally over. Now we need to unite around a vision and although I think the majority of a ‘hard Brexit’ is what we basically have to accept ‘as is’ anyway, it would be better if everyone joined in the debate and shaped the finer points of it. Arguing their views and having them reflected when possible, fighting the battle to get the best possible deal for all of us. I believe this will not only serve them and the UK best, but also the EU. The current ‘war of words’ only stokes up more division and extremism. No one wants to make immigrants feel they are unwelcome or unappreciated. No one wants to increase any form of intolerance but there seems to be a whole lot of this ugly emotion being peddled hard from the place you would expect it least - the Left Wing.
Wake up. Look in the mirror. Smell the coffee. What are you? What do you claim your values are? What are you trying to achieve? Are you in denial? What do you want? Come up with some answers and go out and do something about it. For yourself, for your country and for the good of all of us. If you’re not part of the solution you’re part of the problem. All sides of the political spectrum need to get on board and do something constructive, there’s a lot of work to be done.
Why doesn’t it happen? Because the likes of Clegg, Farron, Blair, Mandelson and co aren’t really in it for anything but themselves. They don’t have anything positive to say, no vision except for their determination to give the EU control and have their career paths laid out before them. The tragedy of the situation is that their dogma only drives the right to more extreme demands, emboldens the EU to make ever-more-crazy demands and stops the populous uniting and starting to move forward positively again. It was a rough campaign but it cannot have failed (I hope) to knock off a few of the hardest edges of militants on either side of the debate by the time it was finally over. Now we need to unite around a vision and although I think the majority of a ‘hard Brexit’ is what we basically have to accept ‘as is’ anyway, it would be better if everyone joined in the debate and shaped the finer points of it. Arguing their views and having them reflected when possible, fighting the battle to get the best possible deal for all of us. I believe this will not only serve them and the UK best, but also the EU. The current ‘war of words’ only stokes up more division and extremism. No one wants to make immigrants feel they are unwelcome or unappreciated. No one wants to increase any form of intolerance but there seems to be a whole lot of this ugly emotion being peddled hard from the place you would expect it least - the Left Wing.
Wake up. Look in the mirror. Smell the coffee. What are you? What do you claim your values are? What are you trying to achieve? Are you in denial? What do you want? Come up with some answers and go out and do something about it. For yourself, for your country and for the good of all of us. If you’re not part of the solution you’re part of the problem. All sides of the political spectrum need to get on board and do something constructive, there’s a lot of work to be done.