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SsiSsiSsiSsi t1_j1c4bot wrote

Reply to comment by passinghere in Target date for cleaning up waterways in England is moved back by 36 years by passinghere

What are the odds of another referendum, assuming the EU would have the UK back in the first place? Has the mood changed in the UK?

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passinghere OP t1_j1c54g7 wrote

It's hard to gauge the actual public opinion, but the vast majority of the media (mainly right wing, pro-Tory, pro-Brexit and anti-EU) would have a collective fit and go into overblown hysteria at just even thinking about this.

There was already insane headlines from the usual suspects in the media just because someone vaguely suggested considering having a slight trading agreement with the EU not that long ago and the far right section of the Tory party went into collective meltdown and shouty abuse at the idea that we "give in" to the EU or we "weaken" our "supposedly" strong trading position.

For certain far right sectors in both the government and media Brexit is still some religious concept that must never ever be spoken against or they will rain down hellfire and brimstone from on high on the person that dared to suggest reality is involved in anything like running the country.... sunny uplands with unicorns farting rainbows while singing Rule Britannia! is the only way of life that these fuckwits will ever listen to

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SsiSsiSsiSsi t1_j1c7u73 wrote

Jesus that’s grim, not unlike our situation with our own right wing in the US. Some portion of any group of people just seems to be broken beyond repair.

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passinghere OP t1_j1ca91f wrote

Yep... and not only broken beyond repair but also determined that everyone else must live only as they demand.

Really hate / sick of the way it is.

Edit... "live and let live" is a concept totally beyond their comprehension, it's dictatorship or death with them

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Crizbibble t1_j1cohgf wrote

When religion creeps into politics things get like this. The conservatives worldwide are infested with religiosity from the Taliban to the Czarists in Russia.

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apenature t1_j1cpwbw wrote

Sunken cost fallacy. They can't admit they maybe made a bad choice.

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Professional-Bee-190 t1_j1cttf6 wrote

The economy cratering this hard and for this long has a way of removing support for things like this. The picture will change in the voting demographic soon enough.

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