As Baldseagull said in post #90351, you cant blame the opposition parties for Brexit not happening yet because they didn't vote in line with the Government. They have their own ideas of what Brexit should look like, as outlined in their respective manifestos.
The blame for the current...
Hold the ****ing front page you remoaners. You thought the economy wasn't going great, well get this GREAT NEWS, a hairdressers in Shoreham is looking for a new hairdresser. :thumbsup...
Or, more fundamentally, the divide between people who are comfortable with an increasing liberal society and those that are uncomfortable with that, and prefer a more socially conservative society.
Without wising to go over old ground too much, the remain campaign started off extremely positive, "stronger, safer, better off" etc. (still all true IMO), and kept this positive message throughout, but obviously introduced/resorted to negative campaigning.
The problem was when the leave...
The other thing to note is that these weren't generic adverts on page 17 of a newspaper or similar, rather direct specific and targeted 'adverts', which were designed to appeal to people's emotions. I understand that often they weren't even obviously adverts. It was all very insidious.
I am...
Come on, use you noggin FFS. Just because some new cars are being made doesn't mean everything is rosy.
NO ONE IS SAYING CONSTRUCTION/MANUFACTURING WILL/HAS CEASE/D IN THE UK...
It's hilarious in the same way you think it's funny that despite the UK construction sector contracting (and people losing jobs as a result), because of Brexit uncertainty, you say the UK gained more inward than Germany and France, i.e. It's not remotely ****ing funny or hilarious at all. Hope...
Look at the bigger picture.
https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-economy-pmi/uk-construction-suffers-as-brexit-uncertainty-bites-pmi-idUKKCN1T50UZ
I read this book some years ago:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_from_Freedom
I can't remember it exactly but I'm sure it's relevant for now. I will read again. Synopsis below.
No deal could end up being worse than expected, with scores of people significantly affected and and some people would still believe that they have 'won'.
I really think there is something extremely pathological going on with a significant chunk of people going on at the moment and I don't...
You say that he (Stewart) is an idealist, but I am not sure I would agree, as he seems to have a strong sense of pragmatism too. Maybe a pragmatic idealist.