Phil71 wrote:Rockape wrote:The mess just gets bigger, the country is divided, parliament is divided and whilst you can understand Boris trying to ‘take the bull by the horns’, it looks like another total failure to achieve anything, which just takes us deeper into the mire.
I blame Call me Dave.....he started the whole feckin thing!
You have to wonder if a formal risk assessment such as the one that has been done with Yellowhammer should have been carried out before any decision to declare a referendum.
Surely a country as advanced as the UK would have done this.
I think there may still be something underlying this whole thing. Maybe the UK state believes the EU is heading for a financial catastrophe, and has decided the risks of an exit now are worth taking.
But that was the ENTIRE issue to begin with.
People quickly have forgotten the state of politics back in Cameron's era, i.e MP's ignorantly not listening to anything we say, people raising immigration numbers were automatically slandered on TV as just being racist (and that was the audience) simply because the MP's couldn't be bothered to answer the question, all the targets MP's set were broken etc etc.
The reason Yellow Hammer was not done pre vote was just another sample of the unfettered arrogance of the Gov't of that day, they just automatically assumed we would vote as instructed by them, they were so confident they thought it was a forgone conclusion ............... and that's the real story about how Brexit and Trump happened.
Remember the media shock at both of those results.
This was the result of years of MP's and media shutting the public down with accusations of "Racist, sexist .......blah blah", they were using Far Left Activist tactics to side step the public's questions and these results were the black eye the public had been itching to give the respective Gov'ts for years.
Remember the message Trump got in on, "I'll be different, I'll actually do what I promise".
All people will choose to recall was "Immigration, build the wall" etc but that wasn't the reason that masses of centre voters voted how they did, it was about taking back control by having Gov'ts who stick to their promises, not just using it as sound pieces to get elected then don't do any of it.