Dec 19, 2018 -- 9:44AM, saddo wrote:
Agree with that Hanx, the problem is Jon Snow and the like. They would have been screaming doom and ruin for two years (as they are now). The News people no longer report things, they get involved and can decide what we see and hear.
So?
Fk em!
People watch / read stuff more to have their prejudices confirmed than for enlightenment.
If May had adopted this approach from the get go, business would have had certainty, Remainers would have had a damn good moan - but then had nowhere to go and maybe even got used to the idea (I know it's too much to ask they actually get behind their country and talk up the benefits of a nimble, lean, 'open for business to the world' economy) and the EU would not have seized the agenda and butt-fked us royally.
Hell, we might even have been able to talk about sovereignty (what the vote was actually about) rather than 'the deal' and how 17.4 million citizens went to bed normal people on 23rd June 2016 but woke up slavering racists on June 24th