I’ve tried to use this sort of analogy a hundred times - you’re wasting your time. The one I use is more centred around no deal, which is that you agree to sell your house and move out by a certain date, fail to actually secure anywhere to move to before it, and then just turf yourself and the family out onto the pavement regardless, with a load of suitcases and boxes filled with belongings that have nowhere to go. You’d never do it - you’d find somewhere to go even if only temporarily or you’d change the date until you could safely go elsewhere. Nobody, no matter what they say, would make themselves homeless out of principle. Nobody. It’s laughable that anybody would either claim that they would, or that they don’t think think the scenarios are comparable. In fact, this is far worse than the picture I painted - I used one single family in my analogy, the reality is that it’s tens of millions of people and the world’s fifth largest economy being told it’s fine to simply pick up the cases and start walking. It’s utterly terrifying how many people are prioritising the fact that they voted for it and don’t want to lose it over just being sensible and accepting it has to be done safely.
Which is essentially the problem - nobody is actually being logical at all anymore, it’s just about ‘winning’ and anyone who feels they are is terrified to let it slip regardless of the consequences. They would rather ‘win’ and suffer for years, probably decades, than wait a minute longer and risk ‘losing’. I am happy to move houses - if people want to move house, that’s fine. I might rather not but it isn’t the end of the world, and if most people want to move, cool. All I and a heck of a lot of people ask is that we know the house we are going to, we get to check that it’s safe, what the area is like, if we will be able to get a job etc, and if it meets these very basic and simple requirements, let’s go. If that were something people had ever shown an interest in doing we would have probably been out by now, and been a lot more peaceful for it. But ever since the vote it’s been absolute warfare from all sides, stoked up by any and every camp going, when it was actually parliament’s duty to come together and start working out a cross-party consensus. Instead we just got revolting behaviour from MPs on both sides, be it leave or remain, and lots of backstabbing and secretive deals that locked people out and stopped them having any say or any basic feeling of involvement that could’ve led to something that allowed progress. It all went wrong the moment May turned up and started lying about being a ‘bloody difficult woman’ to appease her party, while thinking she could conduct everything in private and cut everybody out. Any new PM had to be one who would come in and go “Look, we’ve got to leave, but we won’t be going anywhere unless this place agrees, so let’s put the colour of our rosettes to one side and try to figure this out”. It wouldn’t have been quick or easy, but it doesn’t look like it’s gone well as it is on that front, does it?
I hold out absolutely zero hope on anything that isn’t fiercely damaging occurring now, just as I hold out no hope that the aftermath won’t be decades of fighting and feuding as nobody takes responsibility for it and nobody admits it was actually a mistake either. This is never going away until the day every one of us dies.
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