I'm honestly still kinda baffled as to how the left failed to converge around a position on Brexit that said "We didn't want Brexit but we promised to implement the result whichever way it went, so implement the result we now shall."
Intellectually, I know how it happened. It happened because the mainstream centre/Blairite/commentariat class are so humungously arrogant that they thought stomping their feet & saying "but WE don't WANT this so it cannot be allowed to happen!" would somehow eventually prevail.
We also allowed this completely nonsensical narrative to take hold which said that there was no distinction between "I think we should deliver Brexit because it's what I want" and "I think we should deliver Brexit because that's what people voted for in a referendum, >
> and that anyone saying the latter must secretly be thinking the former, or that anyone saying we should leave the EU because that was what the referendum demanded must have been a secret Brexiteer all along.
Absolute sodding shit show of a country, so it is.
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