Impunity is a massive issue, and getting the tories to pay for their shitty governance would be great, better still if it's via the streets and the courts than through another numbingly futile election, but the brexit horsey has bolted. and i don't think getting the eu to open the stable door again is a realistic or imminent prospect
i must say that eden is getting mighty flippant these days, but i also worry Rich that you're getting pointlessly wound up by twitter trolls where the "debate" still "rages" on,
in a way the pandemic has been a very useful distraction from brexit for the govt, but the effects of brexit are huge and hard to measure, let alone to definitively assign responsibility - for instance anything from lorry drivers to stagflation are caused by lots of factors, even if they are clearly exacerbated by the b word.
Aside from that, this is a great post.
I generally try to avoid sounding like Luka but the whole Brexit escapade showed us abundantly clearly that there is more going on than a series of rational choices that are made by logical people in their own interests.
So I just think repeatedly saying "this is bad" "this doesn't make any sense" won't get you very far. Precisely because it so entrenched and tied up with identity. It could be COVID, it could be Brexit. The supermarket shelves are full or they're not or it doesn't matter.
I'm not saying ignore it, but I do agree that "the brexit horsey has bolted".
We went through this last year, but there are real struggles happening right now about pay and redundancies and the end of furlough and evictions. And there will be more cuts and there will be stuff happening around climate change.
There will be campaigns around these struggles. The way to win these campaigns is to force concessions out of the ruling class. If the rest of us can unite around some achievable goals, we stand a chance of stemming the tide of evil. It is harder to do this if these campaigns fracture into handwringing around who voted for what in the referendum. It just won't work.
If the price of admission to a renters union (for example) is to admit that you were a terrible person for voting for Brexit, then in some areas of the country you are seriously reducing the pool of people who can be members.
