It's going to be a long road back to inclusivity and if and when that happens you can bet that it won't be the nice exceptional situation that was there before.
Ah yes, you've just reminded me of one of the other issues: Some Remain campaigners had difficulty engaging with people who were on the fence about the EU without calling them ignorant yokels.
> It's going to be a long road back to inclusivity and if and when that happens you can bet that it won't be the nice exceptional situation that was there before.
Absolutely agree with you here - Brexit was such a bloodbath politically a UK re-entry won't be on the cards for a generation IMHO.
In other words: The truth hurt. And out of spite they cut off their own nose. Well, whatever works for them.
There it is again.
Let's not engage with the person in an economically deprived area who suspects that increasing the supply of workers might lower wages, or the person who's struggling to afford a house who suspects that increased demand for housing might raise prices.
Unfortunately the remain campaign seemed to have very few people who could engage with the substance of such arguments, in the language of the people who hold them - like pointing out a lot of immigrants are working in the construction industry, building more houses.
For every one campaigner who could engage in such discussion convincingly, remain seemed to have ten ready to sneer at such voters' comical ignorance and mutter that they were a closet racist. You can see how that went.
But people who voted enacted their agency so they don't get a free pass. They let themselves fooled and pulled the trigger. Is it their fault? Who knows. But the ones pulling the trigger don't get a free pass.
To a Brexit supporter, the French, Dutch and Irish people were all opposed to the constitution/treaty, and other countries would have rejected it as well if their referendums hadn't been cancelled, and yet it was forced through anyway by a body that considers voters an inconvenience to be worked around.
When Brexit supporters call the EU 'undemocratic' this is what they are referring to.
Of course, that's not the only reason for Brexit. British politicians deserve a reasonable portion of the blame; for several decades prior to the vote they could straddle the fence on issues like immigration, by telling people "we can't do anything, it's the EU"