Chin Up

Our PM wants the country to unite as we move forward into Brexit. Sorry, Theresa, no.

When you "lose" a vote - whether in a general election or indeed in an Independence referendum - it's fairly normal to accept and move on. When your party (if you have one) fails to make it into government, we all tend to shrug our shoulders, accept the result and get on with our lives, knowing there will be another opportunity to put things right in four or five years time. And when it comes down to it, we know we'll continue to pay tax at roughly the same rate; we'll continue to go to frustrating jobs where budgets gets slashed; and we'll continue to despair at the funding of the NHS while being astounded at the awesomeness of the care every time we we come into contact with it.

In 2014, "we" lost the Independence referendum. However, pretty much everyone I know accepted that it was - for the most part - a fair fight. "We" reckoned it was a risk worth taking, but accepted that 55% of the electorate did not. We accepted there were questions that were asked and insufficiently answered. The idiotic, the well-informed, the hateful, the progressive existed on both sides of the argument.

But not with Brexit.

Mrs May wants us to unite around something that is fundamentally alien to "us". She wants us to unite around something that "we" believe to fundamentally detrimental. She wants us to unite around something that "might not be too bad". She wants us to stand shoulder to shoulder with racists, because - taking a lead from this year's political victors, let's avoid political-correctness - that's what won the vote.

I personally have still to hear of a single benefit of leaving. A single benefit. Freedom of movement is not some minor irritation that I'm prepared to thole in order to access wider advantages. It is - in and of itself - a fundamentally good thing. Empirical data demonstrates this, and from meeting staff from EU countries working in our service industries and asking where they're from (and sharing my own experience of their countries) to providing a service to those same immigrants and working hard to ensure they feel welcome and satisfied with the education their children receive in exchange for the taxes they pay. (I could also of course expand on the plight of old friends who have chosen to live elsewhere in the EU and now have no idea what the future may hold).

So, no Theresa. Fuck off. I'm not uniting behind a strategy that makes these people feel unsure of their futures. Not now; not ever. Take your racist Brexit and stick it up your arse. I will continue to fight it. I will continue to point out its ludicrous, ill-informed, short-sighted stupidity. The Will Of The People is wrong. The People fucked up. The People have no idea what they voted for. From the Irish border to the willingness of the British government to spy on our private communications -  on June 23rd, The People had no conception of any of this.

However, it's happening anyway - and you know what ? In some ways, there's a wee positive for us Remoaners. The result is going to be a car crash - anything from a fender-bender to a total write-off and when it is?

Oh god, are we going to be smug about it. Because, let's face it, in the face of a 52% Remain vote, Farage and his wee vile hobgoblins would have continued with their dishonest racist bile for years to come.

Actual Brexit is probably the only way to win the argument and shut them the fuck up for good.