{"id":40464,"date":"2017-10-14T04:00:50","date_gmt":"2017-10-14T08:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=40464"},"modified":"2017-10-13T15:50:04","modified_gmt":"2017-10-13T19:50:04","slug":"brexit-hangover-a-proposed-deal-for-the-remoaners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/10\/14\/brexit-hangover-a-proposed-deal-for-the-remoaners\/","title":{"rendered":"Brexit hangover – a proposed deal for the “Remoaners”"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Spiked<\/em>, Brendan O’Neill<\/a> offers an olive branch to the Remoaners:<\/p>\n

I propose a deal with Remoaners: Leavers will stop calling you enemies of democracy when you stop behaving like enemies of democracy. Sound good?<\/p>\n

By Remoaners, I don\u2019t mean the 16.1million who voted Remain, the vast majority of whom are not part of any elite, and a huge chunk of whom now accept Brexit must happen. I don\u2019t even mean those sad people who traipse through the streets shouting \u2018Brex-shit!\u2019 and who agitate, or at least tweet, for Britain to stay in the EU: the rights to protest and speak are essential to democracy and these people must be free to fulminate for as long as they like against the democratic will. No, I mean those sections of the elite who have sworn their financial, political and institutional clout to the cause of preventing or diluting Brexit. You guys: we\u2019ll stop calling you destroyers of democracy when you stop trying to destroy democracy, cool?<\/p>\n

The war on Brexit \u2013 which is a war on the largest democratic mandate in British history, on the very right of the masses to decide the fate of their nation \u2013 is getting serious. For too long Leavers have had a tendency to chortle at the myriad spittle-producing haters of Brexit in business, politics, the law. But it\u2019s not funny anymore, because they\u2019re in the ascendancy. Not courtesy of democracy; the people have rejected their preference for oligarchy over democracy, for technocracy over debate, for expertise over the public\u2019s opinions and beliefs. No, their rise, their influence, is built on their economic supremacy and behind-closed-doors influence, on the fact that they are wealthier, better connected and \u2013 let\u2019s be frank \u2013 more ruthless than us, the demos.<\/p>\n

The seriousness of this bloodless coup d\u2019etat<\/em> against Brexit has been perfectly and brutally summed up this week in the elitists\u2019 suggestion that we revoke Article 50. Not content with seeking to wound Brexit \u2013 by, for example, suggesting we stay under the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice, or institute a second referendum even before Brexit has become a reality \u2013 now they\u2019re openly calling for the whole thing to be reversed. The Observer<\/em> revealed on Sunday that, contrary to what some ministers have intimated, Article 50 is revocable. This is all the proof we needed, said a QC in the Guardian<\/em>, that it is \u2018not too late to step back from the Brexit brink\u2019. Translation: the plebs, the unwashed throng, took us to a political cliff edge with their strange, prejudiced passions, and now it falls to the clever, the legally minded, the rational<\/em>, to put Britain back on course.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Spiked, Brendan O’Neill offers an olive branch to the Remoaners: I propose a deal with Remoaners: Leavers will stop calling you enemies of democracy when you stop behaving like enemies of democracy. Sound good? By Remoaners, I don\u2019t mean the 16.1million who voted Remain, the vast majority of whom are not part of any […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,62,53],"tags":[766,337,529,720,907],"class_list":["post-40464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-europe","category-politics","tag-democracy","tag-eu","tag-lawyers","tag-protest","tag-snobbery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-awE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40465,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40464\/revisions\/40465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}