Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2023 16:09:52 GMT
Not. Forthcoming. "They" still "don't know" Brexit is to blame. It's too early to tell. "They" want to give it more time and opportunity to redeem itself.
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Now we know Brexit is to blame for our floundering economy. Any chance of an apology?
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
Last week, Marina Purkiss, a feisty political analyst, told Nick Ferrari during a TV debate that it was time to tell some Brexit home truths. In her own words, posted on Twitter, after the show: “Talked about Brexit being shite. Talked about how we need a grown-up conversation about rejoining.” Ferrari exclaimed “For the love of God!” as he imagined going through another referendum.
The next day, on the same show, I wholly backed Purkiss. Ferrari turned as pink as his shirt; so too the other panellist, Quentin Letts, a man with blind faith in Brexit, also in a pink shirt.
Neither could quite believe we remainers have the effrontery to publicly express such profane views. Some callers backed me, while others tediously restated clichés about “the will of the people”. Lest you forget, 51.9 per cent voted out, 48.1 per cent voted in. “The people” can get mightily irate when “losers” speak up. But speak up we must.
Brexit has ruined the country, as actor Hugh Grant boldly stated last week on an American TV programme. An unholy alliance was formed between Brexit movers and shakers and patently biased media organisations. By May 2019, Nigel Farage had been invited to sound off on Question Time 32 times. The BBC became a free publicist for this grim influencer who ended up controlling the narrative and pulling the two main parties into his orbit.
Remainers could not speak freely for fear of social media bullies; media organisations were alarmingly unbalanced in their coverage; and articulate remainers were marginalised.
One ex-booker for BBC political shows told me himself that they’d been instructed to give most airtime to “Brexit dogmatists like Brendon O’Neill and Melanie Phillips”. O’Neill, who runs Spiked, a libertarian internet magazine, also routinely accused remainers of being “undemocratic”. Voters were not only lied to by Brexit politicians, they were doped and duped by our press and broadcasters.
Fundamentalist Brexiteers will never be swayed, but increasing numbers of Brexiteers are becoming aware of what happened back then. A poll by Ipsos in February found that 60 per cent of British voters think the UK is heading in the wrong direction, compared to just 18 per cent who think the opposite. This month, according to the poll company Statista, 53 per cent of voters think leaving the EU was wrong, while 33 per cent believe it was the right decision.
An old Ugandan Asian friend voted leave. She is disabled. Her carer, a Polish woman, went back to Poland. She has no replacement. Labour shortages in the health and care sectors are growing. She is now a Bregreter.
This Sunday, Richard Hughes, of the Office for Budget Responsibility, told the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg that Brexit’s impact on the economy was as grave as that of the pandemic and warned our overall output would be down by around 4 per cent compared to what it would have been, had we remained in the EU. Why, even Google’s AI chatbot has concluded: “Brexit was a bad idea… I believe the UK would have been better off remaining in the EU”. It is now denounced as “wokeist” and a breacher of electoral laws. Funny yes, but it’s no laughing matter.
I ask committed Brexiteers to think about why they made that choice. Some objected to EU migrant workers. Did Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, Dominic Cummings et al ever tell them non-EU workers would “flood” in? ONS figures show that net migration figures, excluding those in small boats, are the highest since it began collecting migration statistics in 1964. I welcome the new incomers. But do Brexiteers?
Next indictment: Sunak and Starmer are tossing around promises of a high growth economy, but don’t say how the nation will dig itself out of the current deep economic abyss. The BBC website states that “the rest of the G7 countries have seen trade, when compared to the size of their economies, bounce back in a way that hasn’t happened in the UK”.
Next, to the biggest drop in living standards since 1956. The incisive BBC TV interviewer Victoria Derbyshire asked John Glen, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, whether Brexiteers had “voted to be poor”? He had no answer. A nationwide, EU funded Back to Work scheme has just ended. The UK’s replacement is costing £2.6bn. Was this ever mentioned by the bad boys of Brexit?
Leading Brexit tricksters want us to stop being divisive and a nuisance. Can’t do that. Voters were lied to. Some wanted to be lied to, so consumed were they with the idea that the EU was encroaching on Britishness. Some were racists and hoped that after the vote the nation would go all white. Some wanted jobs to be done by true Brits. We now know that natives don’t want to do those jobs. A good number of leavers were imperial nostalgics and now find those times are gone.
Older Britons got us into this mess. Younger generations will one day go back into the EU. Alas, I will be dead by then, still seething about the wounds to our nation, to social cohesion, to internationalism and openness caused by this political self-violation. We told them so. They did not listen. Perhaps they’ll listen now.
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Now we know Brexit is to blame for our floundering economy. Any chance of an apology?
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
Last week, Marina Purkiss, a feisty political analyst, told Nick Ferrari during a TV debate that it was time to tell some Brexit home truths. In her own words, posted on Twitter, after the show: “Talked about Brexit being shite. Talked about how we need a grown-up conversation about rejoining.” Ferrari exclaimed “For the love of God!” as he imagined going through another referendum.
The next day, on the same show, I wholly backed Purkiss. Ferrari turned as pink as his shirt; so too the other panellist, Quentin Letts, a man with blind faith in Brexit, also in a pink shirt.
Neither could quite believe we remainers have the effrontery to publicly express such profane views. Some callers backed me, while others tediously restated clichés about “the will of the people”. Lest you forget, 51.9 per cent voted out, 48.1 per cent voted in. “The people” can get mightily irate when “losers” speak up. But speak up we must.
Brexit has ruined the country, as actor Hugh Grant boldly stated last week on an American TV programme. An unholy alliance was formed between Brexit movers and shakers and patently biased media organisations. By May 2019, Nigel Farage had been invited to sound off on Question Time 32 times. The BBC became a free publicist for this grim influencer who ended up controlling the narrative and pulling the two main parties into his orbit.
Remainers could not speak freely for fear of social media bullies; media organisations were alarmingly unbalanced in their coverage; and articulate remainers were marginalised.
One ex-booker for BBC political shows told me himself that they’d been instructed to give most airtime to “Brexit dogmatists like Brendon O’Neill and Melanie Phillips”. O’Neill, who runs Spiked, a libertarian internet magazine, also routinely accused remainers of being “undemocratic”. Voters were not only lied to by Brexit politicians, they were doped and duped by our press and broadcasters.
Fundamentalist Brexiteers will never be swayed, but increasing numbers of Brexiteers are becoming aware of what happened back then. A poll by Ipsos in February found that 60 per cent of British voters think the UK is heading in the wrong direction, compared to just 18 per cent who think the opposite. This month, according to the poll company Statista, 53 per cent of voters think leaving the EU was wrong, while 33 per cent believe it was the right decision.
An old Ugandan Asian friend voted leave. She is disabled. Her carer, a Polish woman, went back to Poland. She has no replacement. Labour shortages in the health and care sectors are growing. She is now a Bregreter.
This Sunday, Richard Hughes, of the Office for Budget Responsibility, told the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg that Brexit’s impact on the economy was as grave as that of the pandemic and warned our overall output would be down by around 4 per cent compared to what it would have been, had we remained in the EU. Why, even Google’s AI chatbot has concluded: “Brexit was a bad idea… I believe the UK would have been better off remaining in the EU”. It is now denounced as “wokeist” and a breacher of electoral laws. Funny yes, but it’s no laughing matter.
I ask committed Brexiteers to think about why they made that choice. Some objected to EU migrant workers. Did Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, Dominic Cummings et al ever tell them non-EU workers would “flood” in? ONS figures show that net migration figures, excluding those in small boats, are the highest since it began collecting migration statistics in 1964. I welcome the new incomers. But do Brexiteers?
Next indictment: Sunak and Starmer are tossing around promises of a high growth economy, but don’t say how the nation will dig itself out of the current deep economic abyss. The BBC website states that “the rest of the G7 countries have seen trade, when compared to the size of their economies, bounce back in a way that hasn’t happened in the UK”.
Next, to the biggest drop in living standards since 1956. The incisive BBC TV interviewer Victoria Derbyshire asked John Glen, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, whether Brexiteers had “voted to be poor”? He had no answer. A nationwide, EU funded Back to Work scheme has just ended. The UK’s replacement is costing £2.6bn. Was this ever mentioned by the bad boys of Brexit?
Leading Brexit tricksters want us to stop being divisive and a nuisance. Can’t do that. Voters were lied to. Some wanted to be lied to, so consumed were they with the idea that the EU was encroaching on Britishness. Some were racists and hoped that after the vote the nation would go all white. Some wanted jobs to be done by true Brits. We now know that natives don’t want to do those jobs. A good number of leavers were imperial nostalgics and now find those times are gone.
Older Britons got us into this mess. Younger generations will one day go back into the EU. Alas, I will be dead by then, still seething about the wounds to our nation, to social cohesion, to internationalism and openness caused by this political self-violation. We told them so. They did not listen. Perhaps they’ll listen now.
