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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HootyTheNightOwl

Lol, we've had nothing but doom and gloom over Brexit ever since the referendum... and those clowns in Downing Street can't even find any sort of agreement if it bit them - it's got to be either no deal or revoke. There's no other way that it's going to be solved.

Burnley123 · 41-45, M

@HootyTheNightOwl Even those options won't solve it but yes, there is no deal which we could negotiate that will please anybody.

HootyTheNightOwl

@Burnley123 May's resigned now... yet, whoever replaces her is still going to have to put exactly the same deal on the table and go through it being defeated all over again - maybe we'll spend the rest of eternity running around in circles between the deal and asking for another extension until the EU get bored and say "No" to us.

Burnley123 · 41-45, M

@HootyTheNightOwl Boris Johnson is the heavy favourite to replace her. The Tory MPs hate him but they have (correctly) worked out that Johnson is the only one who can get most of the votes back they lost to Farage. He's already committed to leaving in October 'with or without a deal'. This effectively means no deal.

MartinII · 70-79, M

@Burnley123 But how would he achieve that without losing a confidence vote in the Commons?

HootyTheNightOwl

Boris is something of a loose cannon, though... if he gets in, it could be akin to Trump take two.

Odds are that they may never get back a good sized chunk of voters because they've lost hope in the political system as a whole between Brexit and Universal Credit robbing the poor.

Burnley123 · 41-45, M

@MartinII This is the problem that the Tories have. They have a huge division between their political base and their leadership caste on the Brexit issue.

HootyTheNightOwl

@MartinII @Burnley123 That's why i suggested that the next Prime Minister may end up revoking - though at what cost to the nation remains to be seen. Even if he or she does take that option, there's a chance that people could start rioting again.

In a way, i think that those who have or are getting out of the country are doing the right thing because this is going to be one Hell of a storm, no matter how one looks at it!!!