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The depressing mess of Brexit and the tragic inevitability of it fucking up everything continues, though I spent most of the day being annoyed with Remainers on Twitter claiming it was a victory for Remain as if you added up all the votes for Remain parties, that was the biggest vote (at about 40%).
But although they had added together the Remain parties, they’d failed to add the Tories and Labour to the Leavophiles count, which is disingenuous at best. As those are both officially Leave parties. People were arguing that a lot of Labour voters are for remain and it’s certainly true that this wasn’t an official vote on one subject, so you could have voted for other reasons. But sadly it was inevitably going to be seen as so and tragically the turn out was low. If out and out Remain parties had got over 50% of the vote or preferably over 60% then it might have actually meant something. But saying that 40% of voters are solid Remain and that is a win is the sort of spin and dishonesty that we should be attempting to rise above in politics.
The Conservative party may have members who are Remain, but the party is clearly Brexit and likely soon to be No Deal Brexit and the Labour party are attempting to fudge things to appeal to everyone (the exodus from them shows that neither side is really being fooled), so if you want to see this as an unofficial referendum on Brexit then impartially (and sadly) the result is that 60% of people voted for Leave Parties and the majority of them want No Deal.
It’s not an official referendum, luckily, so there is time still for something to be done (though increasingly I feel No Deal is becoming inevitable and part of me thinks, well at least that will put this to bed, even if that is at the huge expense to the country an its people), and there’s some appetite to fight against Farage marching into the power vacuum created by the self-destruction of the two main parties and the United Kingdom splintering and me being left in the shittiest bit (I may attempt to gain asylum in Scotland - I can’t think of anything I’ve done to upset them), but fuck me, I wish people could have just seen that this was an opportunity to send a strong message to government and voted. Marches and petitions are fine, but a proper win for Greens/LD/SNP etc could have been huge.
But trying to claim this as a win, whilst adding up one side’s votes, but not totalling up the other is just bullshit.
I wonder what it will take for us to come to our senses. I have a feeling it will be twenty years of being slapped in the face and kicked in the genitals
I hope I am wrong, of course and that No Deal Brexit doesn’t happen or it happens and it’s all fine. But I feel like the consequences of most political decisions over the last five years have been obvious and inevitable to me and the slow motion car crash we’re in right now seems inevitable too.
And yet now we’re in the whirling water spiralling down the toilet, I am not sure there is all that much we can do to get out of it.
Anyone going to step in and be a realistic adult about all this?
No.
I put a few RHLSTP and stand up rarities on eBay today. If you missed out on a RHLSTP Rubik’s Cube or Cool Kid T shirt you have a chance to get one now. And I’ve got a limited edition Oh Frig I’m 50 DVD (with bag for life and programmes) and a rare copy of Hitler Moustache (still in its cellophane) with the equally rare programme (one of the few show programmes I have basically run out of)
All the money raised will go towards making more podcasts.
And good news if you got a cube via the kickstarter. We're not even a day in and look how much this one is up to!
