I'm aware Blair is toxic to many, however as I said earlier read his words on Brexit. The ideologically driven approach is to go for Brexit regardless of the consequences.
The pragmatic approach driven by what's best for the nation as a whole is to have flexibility in the outcome because it never makes sense to substitute a set of circumstances for a worse one. That is indisputable logic.
But the problem was for many that they existed in a worse case already. Support for the EU, to the extent brexiteers are labelled, is still ideological, a strong belief in a federalist state, remenber that austerity was EU policy.
This is the doing of corrupt people and minds me of a quote of Jefferson's..
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation….
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.—That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness… it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
we are at that point now
