I think SJ's post just nailed it:The disaster capitalists (represented for example by Rees-Mogg), the racists (represented by Farage), the outright personal opportunists (represented by Johnson, and quite a few of his cabinet) supported by the idiots (Davies), funded by Russian interests (and troll bots) and unsavoury individuals who want to sell us private medical insurance, but have to destroy the NHS before we will be forced buy it (Aaron Banks) and supported by the tax exiles/megalomaniacs (Murdoch, Barclay Brothers, Rothermere) employed a team of dishonest manipulators (Cambridge Analytica), set up an organisation led by a man whose only life skill is lying (Cummings) to manipulate a nation (us) by a pack of lies into believing that we had a choice to make our lives better.And a sufficiently large number of us (but still only about a third of the nation as a whole) in that moment bought into it.I.e. were conned into doing something against their own best interests. A few, admittedly, truly supported the cause. The xenophobes, the irrational nationalists (who thought we could return to the days of Empire, when Britain ruled the waves), and those with a peculiar misunderstanding of the meaning of "sovereignty".And since then, many regret and resent the fact that they were conned.And others just cannot bring themselves to admit to themselves that they were conned, and double down and resort to confirmation bias (such as persuading themselves that we would have been forced into a European Army, or that the shelves of the supermarkets are bountifully stocked with everything they could possibly want, there is no petrol crises, etc). Some gloat ("we won, get over it", but can never articulate what they won), and some just name call ("remoners" etc).Meanwhile, Rees-Mogg's bet against the UK economy made Somerset Capital billions (much of which he lost again by backing the Chinese economy as share prices fell), Farage struggles to stay "relevant" and searches out new groups of foreigners to demonise, the off shore press barons and private equity sat comfortably secure in the knowledge that their tax havens are safe, and we have a dishonest, indolent idiot in Downing Street, surrounded by incompetent and corrupt acolytes.And a lot of people are understandably just fed up (which Johnson relied on to get his "just get Brexit done" supermajorhity at the last election, before serving up a Brexit which, far from being "oven ready" was not even half baked).Who's the mug?
T P Howell ● 912d