Get over it!
I must apologise today for returning to the vexed subject of Brexit. There are of course new reasons – and indeed reports or comments upon on old reasons – for doing so almost on a daily (or even more frequent) basis.
However, I do get irritated by the small but significant number of die-hard Remoaners in all walks of life who continue to persist in trying to reheat old arguments and/or treat every new piece of ‘bad’ Brexit news as an excuse, or another log on the funeral pyre, to bray yet again that what they regard as the fundamental and far-reaching ‘mistake’ made by the (again small but significant) majority of UK citizens who were eligible to vote in the EU Referendum and indeed did so do – but in favour of Leave rather than Remain.
I was touring he newspaper websites today when I came across what seems to pass for the Letters page on the website of The Independent. On it, five out of the six contributions were on the subject of Brexit and all five of them were from rabid anti-Leave Remoaners.
Rust readers can see for themselves here, via this link to the relevant page on the website of – THE INDEPENDENT
What I take object to strongly is the mindset which assumes that, looking at it in the round, the only sensible way to have voted in the EU Referendum was in favour of Remain … and that anyone who voted Leave must by definition be unintelligent, deluded, unable to understand the issues, inherently weak of mind and therefore easily swayed by spurious arguments … and/or stupid, mad, contrary, taking the piss, not taking the issues seriously, being deliberately frivolous … and (to sum it up) accordingly should have been disqualified from voting in the first place.
I’m not expressing a view here on whether the ‘right’ answer in the EU Referendum was Leave or Remain, but I just want to state a couple of things.
As I see it, what all Remoaners are now effectively reduced to contending is that, not only do they (1) know better than other people about such an important issue; but (2) deciding such an issue via a democratic vote in accordance with the electoral rules on holding a UK national referendum is a ridiculous thing to even contemplate, let alone do; that (3) to hell with democracy, the UK electorate should never be given a chance to express its view at the ballot box when something ‘as important as this’ is up for consideration [Oh yes?! And who decides which issues are as important as this, folks?!]; and (4) – most important of all in my view – they (the Remoaners) would rather be governed by the unelected, corrupt, ‘fat cat’, pompous, federalist, dictatorial EU bureaucrats of Brussels than by the British people and the UK Parliament.
They may pay a token lip service to democracy but de facto they’re totally against it. They’re the British Establishment by any other name, the group who have caused more untold misery down through the umpteen ages of history than anyone but the Christian church.
Whether the campaigners on either side would like to admit it or not, the basic reason that the EU Referendum went the way it did is that the electors believed (or chose to believe) they were being asked the question “On balance, would you prefer to be governed by Brussels or by your own national Parliament?” and took the view that of the two, and for all its imperfections, they’d rather be governed by Westminster.
