Quote Originally Posted by millipede View Post
You are deluded Wheeze. You may have had good intentions about your desire to be self determined but...

the populist press whipped up a frenzy of fear about immigration and that was totally the main driving force behind voting for leave ( which obviously now maybe they are realising is ridiculous and unworkable)

Well that is apart from the fact that actually the main driving force was they didn't have a clue about what they were voting for.

I hope you don't feel guilty. I know my dad does.
Indeed.

Nobody voted to leave with any idea of what that meant, since the political drivers themselves clearly didn't know - as we now see every day. But people have always been foolish enough to buy a pig in a poke.

Voting for freedom to make our own decisions as a country is a lovely idea, along with being in favour of "motherhood and apple pie", but back in the real world...

I feel sadness for the working people who will pay the price for our leaving and annoyance with the intellectually self- indulgent, well-off professional classes and politicians who will float above whatever mess we finally end up with. "Oh dear, that hasn't turned out well has it, but another bottle of Petrus, shall we?"

I am going to Belgium for a holiday tomorrow. I hope people will treat me with pity.