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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:

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sltIisHseA]

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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SatanBurger · 36-40, F
Owen: "What are you fighting for"

Woman: "To get rid of you."

Meanwhile she's OK with this:

http://fubarradio.com/politics/stupidly-offensive-things-nigel-farage-has-said/

Another Woman: "We're just like Russia."

LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

First worlders are so stupid, they really must have been living under a rock in order to equate Britain with Russia 🤣

Like I'm sorry are Russian nationalists going to the voting booths to beat the crap out of anyone voting aka voter intimidation 🤷‍♀️

Then no stupid twat, Britain isn't anywhere near Russia.

God that was the most dumbest thing I've heard in my life.
whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M
@SatanBurger Then you should get out more. Trump said a couple of Beauties. One about Mexico paying to build a Wall, and another about the Chinese Govt paying tariffs.. Talk about laugh. Like any moron will believe that.😂
Burnley123 · 41-45, M
@SatanBurger You are using twat as a swear word. You Anglophile you. 😜
SatanBurger · 36-40, F
@whowasthatmaskedman Oh no I couldn't imagine anyone falling for that 🤣
Burnley123 · 41-45, M
@SatanBurger The video even has some alt-right teenaged dweebs with conspiracy theories. These little shits are saying that teachers 'indoctrinate then with labour values'. Like teaching maths and grammar is cultural Marxism. I work in education and my politics has zero to do with the job.
SatanBurger · 36-40, F
@Burnley123 Nigel Farage has said some really ludicrous things and if he's their hero, what most likely happened was that they opened their big mouth in a public school and got detention or beat up lmao.

So their parents of said brats who most likely rot their brain with this nonsense to begin with, told them that it was "leftist tyranny" or some other low IQ crap. Whatever means necessary to not take the blame for being an a-hole, much easier to blame cultural Marxism instead of realizing they're a homophobic racist piece of crap 👍
Burnley123 · 41-45, M
@SatanBurger I'd imagine it was EXACTLY like that.

"I got a bad mark in my English exam, it must be because of Cultural Marxism. Whaaaa!"