Billy Bunter
Wednesday 17th May 2023 1:03pm [Edited]
The Sussex Coast
4,660 posts
Quote: chipolata @ 17th May 2023, 10:25 AM
To echo Lazard's point, who is to blame then? My answer would be the Brexiteers because they proposed leaving without ever coming up with a workable plan as to how to make it work. Or even any plan.
I've already answered that one. Although I would use the expression "responsible for" rather than "to blame". It is the Great British public. The same public that voted to call a polar research ship "Boatymcboat face".
If you're looking for someone else to "blame", clearly it is not the Conservative Party, whose leader campaigned to remain. You could argue the Labour Party, whose leader declined to make his position known.
You could, I suppose, "blame" those who campaigned to leave but that would be being rather disingenuous to the electorate as you would be suggesting that they were unable to understand the issues even though they are trusted to do so at every General and local election when the same questions of what and what not to believe in a manifesto invariably arise. Or maybe there should have been a minimum IQ level for casting a vote?
Personally I would put the responsibility on Barack Obama for alienating the Great British public by trying to influence the vote when it was none of his business or Eddie Izzard for his clownish performance in support of remain on Question Time the week before the referendum.
Quote: lofthouse @ 17th May 2023, 11:44 AM
It's the biggest, needles act of self harm this country has ever indulged itself in
But hey, who knows, when us lot are all dead and gone there may actually be some benefits
Eventually
Taking your comment in the sarcastic way in which it is obviously meant, that is the same as saying that all the environmental targets and plans to tackle "climate change" should be abandoned because they are not of immediate benefit and will only help future generations.