Why some hardcore Remainers want JRM to lead the UK out of the EU
Basically, because Brexit is a cult, which must be allowed to prove itself a disaster for the country,
or it will not die but become even more dangerous & extreme.
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2018/09/15/why-we-must-all-now-be-with-rees-mogg-the-case-against-a-sudden-reversal-of-brexit/
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said of Brexit that it could best be understood as a type of cult,
played out on a vast – and therefore catastrophic – national stage.
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This is what we face on 29 March next year:
a national suicide as an escape from the admission of terrible error – death rather than repentance and reversal.
What can those of us who are not cult members, who watch aghast on the sidelines, do?
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.If Brexit were indeed to be formally reversed, UKIP would revive, and win a multitude of seats in the European Parliament in the May 2019 election
< or new extremists would at the next EP, maybe even an EDL-led movement >
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At home, the fights with the EU over the reversal of Brexit would suddenly become the new casus belli.
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Nothing would be settled because none of the core problems that have given rise to this Brexit madness would have been addressed.
What are these?
First the sense of entitlement that pervades English culture,
a sense of exceptionalism that makes even other faded post-colonial powers seem modest.
Second, the ongoing absence of any kind of loyalty whatsoever to the EU,
a relationship perpetually presented in transactional terms
but with the bargains that come our way being always hidden while the costs get shouted from the rooftops.
Third, the constitutional illiteracy of a society that boasts of having no constitution,
where power is exercised informally in accordance with unwritten conventions
and in which no serious reflection on the rule of law and respect for human rights has ever occurred