How can Britain's divisions be healed?

The country is massively divided on Brexit and these divisions are only getting deeper. Here is when Owen Jones, a prominent left-wing Guardian journalist, went to interview people at a rally for Nigel Farage's Brexit Party. He got insulted and shouted at by almost everyone he was filmed interviewing. The main points made by these people were about democracy but ironically almost nobody tried to engage him in rational discourse and one person even said that the Guardian newspaper should be banned:

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The mood at the Brexit rally was one of right-wing anti-establishment anger fuelled by tribal bitterness against anything that they disagree with. Obviously, its a rally and it's the hard-core rather than the majority of party support, but they are the hard-core of a party which is polling very well.

The Brexit Party won't win a UK General Election, but they will probably push the Conservative Party into supporting a no-deal Brexit. Boris Johnson, now the clear front-runner to replace May, has already said that Britain must leave the EU by October 'with or without a deal'. There is no deal that could conceivably be negotiated that would appease the majority of Brexit voters.

The anger and sense of betrayal felt by the people at the Brexit rally is only likely to increase. If the unscrupulous and caddish Johnson walks back on his no-deal promise then Farage and our right-wing tabloids will further inflame these tensions. If there is a no-deal Brexit then there will be a huge recession and people will feel betrayed again. This anger could go in different places but some of it will go further down the well of the nationalist right.

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SW-User

I wish I knew but I feel that there will be at least another decade of this.

1. We leave no deal.... Economic disaster
2. We leave with deal. End 2020 we're back here, no long term solution in place so temporary deal extended another row about deal or no deal now complicated by Irish backstop
On future
Scotland vote on independence.
Issues over Irish border as we create separate trade deals with non EU countries and diverge on legislation will mean either big differences to UK or NI considered joining Eire. Return to troubles in Ireland.
People question UK position on UN security Council. We slide down G20 league table.
Immigration goes negative and we fail to staff NHS and other public services.
UK EU parties build like UKIP did esp taking middle votes from Labour and Lib Dems even tories.
We start to negotiate rejoining but with old privileges. Denied that by EU. Arguments continue for years to come. I'll probably be destitute and dead by then.

Burnley123 · 41-45, M

@SW-User Yeah, I genuinely don't know how you solve this.

SW-User

@Burnley123 generations it'll take generations I feel. So much damage done in so many ways.

Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M

@SW-User This is my view. Can't decide whether Farage is a mischief maker or the 'acceptable face' of the far right.
But if these or any clone of these groups attain political power i really fear for the next twenty years.
Economy; business; healthcare; pensions, it'll all go down the pan.

Frank52 · 70-79, M

@Picklebobble2 The only part of your point I'd take issue with is the idea of an 'acceptable face' of the far right. But I know what you mean and you too have put it in quotation marks so I understand it is not intended literally.