Originally Posted by
Gray77
I think Brexit is suffering from the same issues Communism/Socialism always has, namely the people in charge of implementing it have never truly believed in it and ended up making a balls up. You can argue for the merits of socialism but opponents will cry “Stalin, Castro, Mao, etc” as a means to say it has always been a disaster, as if any of those leaders was actually really a socialist.
Same rules for Brexit. I’m in the old Labour Bennite school of opposition to the European Union and whatever came before it, but others opposed it for different reasons, meaning you struggle to end up with a Brexit that actually pleases all of those who voted for it. And, Johnson is not a Brexiteer, he eyed it as a chance to win the leadership and assume control, and every decision made since shows him as a leader who isn’t really that keen on Brexit but knows his entire reason for being PM is linked to him supporting it.
It’s a mess, and we suffer from the wrong people being in charge when these things come around. Had Corbyn had the spirit of his convictions and actually supported Brexit for the reasons he’s opposed the EU all his political life then we may have had a true left wing Brexit which supported workers, but he sold out and pandered to the middle class liberals in his party who view being in the EU as more important than anything.
I assume we’ll revisit our membership at some point when the Tories are no longer in office, but when that is is still up for debate.