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Denzil_DC

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2. Over the past few years, we've lived under the threat of "revolution"
Fri Apr 17, 2020, 03:43 PM
Apr 2020

and "civil unrest" if Brexiters don't get their way.

It's never materialized, not even among the various delays the whole misbegotten project has been subject to since the referendum. It's a tired line, fit for parroting only by those who fervently wish it to be true.

The worst we've seen has been random acts of violence and discrimination against the Brexiters' chosen outgroups (many of whom the country has every reason to be very grateful for at the moment, from health and healthcare workers who've borne the worst of the brunt of covid-19 to fruitpickers being transported in on chartered flights to harvest fruit that would otherwise go unpicked) and a lot of mindless moaning on social media and the worst of the mainstream media.

I suggest you find a different forum to hang out on. I know nobody in my social circle who's an ardent Brexiter. Even those who once were have been pretty quiet in recent times.

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