It is no longer about leave v remain.
Its about coming up with a plan that solves the problems this country faces and delivers on the expectations and demands of leavers.
By that I mean, when leavers stated 'there are no jobs because of all the immigrants coming over here', remainers focused on the immigration part and didn't hear the part saying 'there are no jobs or opportunities for people like me'.
And thats kind of important.
Theresa May also focused on the immigrants bit cos that fitted with her world view.
But again, she's kind of neglected the 'there are no jobs for people like me' part
And thats kind of important.
And the Brexit we are going to get looks a lot like it doesn't talk about or address increasing mechanisation of jobs that would be 'for people like me'.
Nor does it talk about or address the lack of training and education opportunities 'for people like me'.
Nor does it address class issues where the middle classes have a habit of recruiting individuals who are lot like them, and they don't recruit individual 'for people like me'.
Nor does it tackle how austerity created additional problems and pressures 'for people like me' and how they shouldered the burden whilst everyone else didn't really notice austerity too much.
Nor does it talk about how 'people like me' are supposed to get to jobs when public transport is so shocking and the jobs are located in places they don't live.
I could go on.
But there is a cruical point here; neither does remaining talk about a lot of these issues. It just frames Brexit in terms which does not focus on the 'people like me thing' and it doesn't come up with a plan of how to tackle these problems.
We've been so busy with this Them and Us stuff, we've not talked about an actual vision for the country beyond crappy slogans and rather empty and vague comments. Our political dialogue has become so tribal we are unable to be self critical and call out bullshit happening in our own tents.
We've spent two years, jerking off pretending we can just ignore all these problems. Thats just another two years in addition to a couple of decades of kicking the can down the road because of populism politics.
But the time IS coming when we are going to have to make some really fucking hard and difficult decisions for the benefit of the entire country. And no one fucking politician is up to that job right now from what I can see. Or media are just playing along with the bullshit with a domination of opinion columnists over investigative journalists who drill down into the roots and nature of problems.
Our failure to see the wood for the trees is going to harm us for a generation REGARDLESS of what happens now. It is merely a damage limitation exercise process at this point, and the outcome will depend entirely on when we get our fucking shit together.
We've got a long way to go on that one, and I fear that it won't start until some time after Brexit when we've long since pissed our grandkids future away defending our fucking pride over which way we bloody voted on 23rd June 2016.
We need to start having proper conversations about society and community and problems and how we go about solving them without all the other utter bullshit.
I'm tired of it.
But yes, we need to have this conversation, and stop complaining about why Brexit is taking so long, and 'how we should just get on with it', go and shove it in the Brexit topic so I don't have to see it and engage with it cos I'd rather bury my head in the sand and pretend it doesn't exist.
Cos its NEVER going to bloody end because Brexit is a sympton of some catatophically bad political decisions and priorities over the last 25 years - virtually all of which originate in Westminister and in your local town hall and have fuck all to do with the EU.
Until we start seeing the whole thing in this way, we will have ever increasing problems. It is not going to go away if Brexit goes away or because we achieve Brexit.
And sadly this is the mentality that virtually everyone seems to be stuck in.