One thing I still can't get my head around is why so many people....literally millions of people....hold such hatred for Europe and the EU. I can kind of understand why people like Mogg & Hartley-Brewer are so desperate to leave, because they stand to gain financially and will become even richer. But why does the man in the street have such passionate views? I bet before the referendum many of them were completely oblivious and ignorant to our relationship with the EU (one could argue they still are). Why do they now think it's such an evil thing that we MUST leave, and if we don't there will be violence on the streets? I just don't get it.
Ok I'll take this. Essay incoming:
Here's my assessment. The global downturn, doubled down with austerity has fucked up millions of people's lives and futures. And I mean really, really fucked up. I can tell you some stories that would make you weep, except that you could probably tell me equally awful ones back, and we'd just cry at each other, so let's not go there now.
Everyone with a functioning brain knows that austerity doesn't work. But because too many Britons have a dominant gene for deference, servility and forelock-tugging whenever posh twats tell them something, too many people - including most Labour politicians, to their shame - believed Gideon and the pig fucker and enabled the wholesale battering and scouring of a nation.
So...what's that got to do with Brexit and the EU-hate? Thing is until the refernedum, there was literally no hope; no way out of the misery we were mired in. Those most affected assumed that this was it; there would never be good times again. The die had been cast; the rubicon had been crossed - and it wasn't even mango-flavoured.
And then the referendum farrago - or should that be Frottage? - started and suddenly there was a chink of light; a tiny vestige of hope that all blame could be put on the EU and immigration and Britain's 'lack of soverignty' and 'lack of control'.
Suddenly it wasn't the cruelty of the very rich which was to blame - something that has been with humankind since day one and is to all intents and purposes unassailable - but rather a more managable set of causes which, crucially,
something could be done about. After all, that's what the media are telling us, right? And man of the people Nigel Frottage?
And so those near-dead and drowning people, disadvantaged by a lack of education or a paucity of previous interest in politics and processes, grabbed onto that lifeline with both hands and a fear-induced clutch mechanism that means they will NOT let go. This is their only hope. Brexit HAS to happen, because Brexit is the ONLY way out of hell. No amount of facts or truths or reality will ever surmount the vicissitudes of a last, final, breathless, desperate hope.
And the irony is that it's the very same cruel rich who caused these problems and compunded them with austerity, that have now thrown us this bone. So they can sit back and laugh at us.
Like they have always done.
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