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PeonForHer -> RE: Brexit Vote Results (6/28/2016 4:42:06 PM)
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Just seems to be page after page of tears being shed because the stupid people won the vote.
I honestly do get that there's a large demographic - maybe especially up there in the north, or in Wales, or out in the sticks anywhere - that gets rubbed up the wrong way about the way southern, metropolitan, middle class liberal-lefties treat them. It's entirely understandable to me. I'll never forget watching Blair take over leadership of the Labour Party and thinking, 'No way are those northern socialists going to stomach this ponce'. And ... Blair went on to let the heart of socialism die ... which is a great big, sad, story all of its own.
However, two major things against that. One - and let me be clear here, I'm not talking about you, NG, or 'just anyone' who sees immigration as a problem - I'm talking about racists, dyed in the wool: those people will *always* be hypersensitive to being looked down upon. It's the flip-side of their very own worldview. They've come to scorn people of a different race - they revel in how wrong/disgusting/inferior such people are. In arriving at that racist view, though, they've already bought into a worldview in which people of type A look down on people of type B. If not at the front of their minds, then at the back of them, there'll be the question, 'If I look down on that black bloke for being black, might there be somebody who looks down on me for being ... whatever?' Thus, I've noticed, racists are very, *very* sensitive about being looked down-upon. Very ironic. Racists have been *so* quick to call me a 'snob', in the past.
The second thing: well, now, Brexit just demonstrably *has* been a bloody stupid, disastrous idea. The economy is falling apart; there's bitterness all over the country; even the professional political class is going into meltdown. All this - for what gains for the Brexiteers? The supposed £350 million for the NHS which has evaporated; a government that will soon be even more punitive and restrictive than Cameron's; immigration levels that now, it's being quietly conceded, might well not change at all, a shattered economy and ... on top of all that, we might well soon be seeing the disintegration of Great Britain itself. I mean, feck ... if Scotland gets its independence, the Union Jack and the term 'Great Britain' themselves will look illogical. It won't make sense to have or to use them any more. It's utterly brain-blasting.
It's so, so ironic, for me. I never called myself much of a patriot But now, I'm suddenly in a position where I'm starting to think, 'jesus, you never know what you've got till it's gone'. (Or, hopefully, make that just 'in danger of being gone') I see my own little nation now being trashed - as a result of the efforts *in part* of the sort of loathsome turds who have for so long claimed to love it so much, while calling people like me a 'traitor' but who, utterly paradoxically, are now so instrumental in said trashing.
I mean really, truly: I took good old Blighty for granted - I admit it. Now it feels like it's shaking underneath me.
Honestly - that's a snapshot of how *this* 'Bremainer' feels, anyway. I've never felt anything remotely like this before. It's not pleasant - not at all.
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