Chris Abbott
Jul 24, 2017 · 2 min read

I voted Labour.

You’re simply handwaving away the almost mind-bending amount of economic, technical and social damage Brexit will cause, in favour of fetishising a terminally flawed “democratic” process run in bad faith from beginning to end. Democracy requires an informed citizenry and politicians acting in good faith to work. This exercise had neither. It’s not elitist to point out that the vast majority of people who voted had no idea what they were voting for, because what they were voting for had not been defined. The 52% voted for unicorns and got a horse with a nail stuck in its head.

Brexit is like randomly deleting files from Windows hoping to make it work better.

Brexit is like believing you can write your own new operating system and that everyone will rush to buy it despite not being compatible with anything.

And Brexit will make the UK so much poorer that JC’s shopping list goes up in smoke.

If something is provably bad for the country, it should be modified or stopped, especially if the ONLY reason for doing it now is “a slight majority of people were in favour of going in that direction”. There’s no glorious future here, no sunlit uplands. Blindly following the “majority” off a cliff is not leadership.

Pointing at the YouGov poll is disingenuous, since all it proves is how many of the electorate still don’t have the full picture about all the facets of Brexit damage.

Just because the public doesn’t know about it, doesn’t mean it’s not important. You could take any highly technical issue and ask if people were in favour of it, and the results you got would be laughable to meaningless. If you based policy on that, we’d be in deep trouble (see: Republicans). It’s not elistist to point out what the

Everyone agrees there’s a cliff here. The only choice should be not to drive off it, no matter how many people are proudly driving the car because they won it in Bullseye.

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