No, that's fair enough, I guess the thought of that man representing Britain on any stage is utterly repellent, even joking about it is sad to hear as we both know how possible it actually is to happen.
I accept that this is quite possibly re-running old arguments, but, whilst not wishing to speak for every remain voter, from my own perspective it feels like a large number of concerns were raised during the campaign that underlined why I (we) thought leaving the EU would be a bad idea. Those concerns were dismissed, which is your right, but they were also dismissed in a 'whadda experts know' kinda way that underlines much of the derision aimed at leave voters.
I doubt anyone of sound mind would bat an eyelid if people said, I don't agree with your (considered) opinion, here is my own (considered) opinion, with the rationale behind why I think this is the way to go. No one at all would mind that I suspect, but that isn't what happened. Instead you had people disagreeing with those whose entire academic or professional lives are involved with understanding their respective area being dismissed by those whose passing acquaintance with it is on LBC or the Daily Politics. The rationale went as far as 'experts are often wrong, who needs experts', with their back of an envelope summations then given equivalence with people who have spent their life engrossed in this stuff.
To then add salt to the wound, when those back of the envelope summations don't turn out as the advocates had hoped, it is not to themselves that they point the finger, but rather those people who have spent their life studying this stuff who said from the off it would be a rubbish decision. That the utter bewilderment of remain voters is then used as a reason to prop up and reinforce your decision to leave only adds to my personal confusion.
You've been a very reasoned contributor to this thread, so I'm sure you can appreciate how maddening that is? It feels like you hate us more than you dislike the EU, and this is just a way to stick two fingers up at half the country than it is to actually better the country.
