Originally Posted by
Geoff Parkstone
I'm not entering your spat with Andy over exact use of words
My observations are simple
1. What someone may or may not have said 5 years ago (to cite your example) is history. No more, no less. There is nothing you or I or anyone else can do about it, short of hiring Stewey Griffin to take you back in time. So why the angst, why waste time and emotional energy in repeatedly whining about the outcomes of Brexit. They are what they are, get over it.
2. Rightly or wrongly people will be blaming brexit for their own inadequacies for the next decade or more. Its the perfect (and very simple) excuse, cannot be proven, cannot be disproven and there will always be an eager audience ready to take it all in. It is the scapegoat to end all scapegoats and until we stop blaming every ill in the country / economy / life on brexit and get on with things, we will remain frozen in time and unable to move forward.
I don't doubt the sincerity and passion with which you hold your views, but you seem like the Japanese soldier fighting on years after the war is over. What's done is done, the battle is lost, what value is there in constantly going back over the same old same old Johnson this Farage that ground? learn to cope, as Cochrane said: it will be better for your mental health!