Tell us what you really think Bob; don't hold back. <G> I read the BBC online, the Economist on paper and online, and other British media online. It is the very passion and venom that I was finding there that led me to this post. I can understand, and to some extent appreciate, the points of view of both sides. I am troubled most by the fact that it seems compromise has become as loathsome a concept to many in Britain as it is to much of the US.
Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 6:03 PM Bob W-PDML <p...@web-options.com> wrote: > > Well, if you can bear it take a look at the Brexit-related comments on > some of the BBC forums - I'm sure weather forums are not like that. The > whole thing is a collective descent into madness. There is no reasoned > discussion, and the reason the Leave won and Remain lost is that Leave > played on the emotional aspects of it all, while Leave tried to play to > reason. But it is not an issue where reason really matters for most people > - I for one am pro-Europe by emotion at least as much as I am by reason. > What it means is that the arguments are simply playground mud-slinging and > very tiresome once you're past the initial entertainment of it all. > > The problem is, if there's another referendum and Remain wins, the Leave > camp will never shut up, they will beaver away obsessively just as they did > after the 1974 referendum, with their lies and prejudices and bigotry. If > Leave win I suspect Remain will accept that the war is over and the bad > guys won. I did march in favour of another referendum a couple of weeks > ago, with 700,000 others - I don't think we'll get one, but I think it's > important to make our voice heard because there is a real slide towards > tyranny of the majority, and the notion of winner takes all, even though > the Leave majority was less than 4%. It's a very worrying slide. > > The other thing is that if we do indeed leave it will be the leave voters > who suffer from the economic consequences, not the leaders of the Leave > movement, who are feathering their own nests and intend to strip the > workers of their rights as soon as they get the chance, or the middle-class > oldies like me. They are robber barons of the worst sort, lying, conniving > little shits who've used people to further their own interests. I'm a > mild-mannered sort of chap, but I'd to see the whole fucking lot of them > hanging from lampposts in Parliament Square. In the name of tolerance and > democracy. > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
