From the Independent, An edited version appeared in the 'I' today.
"No matter the 52 per cent to the electorate who voted for Leave have been co-opted, willingly or not, into an increasingly radicalised army of populist revolt, who are supposed to want (every single one of them) a no-deal Brexit if necessary, even though they have never been explicitly asked that.
They are supposed to believe that they are in a war to save Britain. Hence all the militaristic language. If someone was brave enough to remind Johnson that Jo Cox died at the hands of a man yelling “Britain first” and “keep Britain independent” he would throw the words back in their face as “humbug” or some such."
www.independent.co.uk/voices/boris-johnson-jo-cox-death-brendan-trump-brexit-culture-war-division-a9121101.html
This is straight from the Trump playbook. As a result we have 100's of thousands, maybe millions, who spew hate supposedly in the name of democracy at people who have the temerity to disagree with them and democratically elected MPs who in their own minds are voting for what is right.
This is a dangerous path. And a Labour party hostage to the extreme left is of little help in providing an appealing alternative for many people.
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