The Brexit choice at this election

Since the expression "#GetBrexitDone" seems to trigger a lot of people I have been trying to find a form of words which no reasonable person could object to to describe the Brexit choice at this election.

IF YOU WANT BREXIT TO HAPPEN you should vote Conservative.

Under a majority Conservative government Britain will leave the EU, with a deal, by 31st January.


IF YOU WANT TO STOP BREXIT you should vote Liberal Democrat.

The Lib/Dem policy is to revoke Article 50 and scrap Brexit. 

As their ally, the former Green MP Caroline Lucas put it, this is effectively telling 17.4 million people that the Lib/Dems don't give a f*** about how those people voted but that is their policy.


IF YOU WANT TO KEEP ARGUING ABOUT WHETHER TO LEAVE FOR MONTHS,

and have another referendum, you should vote Labour.

Comments

Jim said…
I object to your choice of words during the introduction of this blog post.

The word trigger is a name for an event which causes a person with PTSD to relive extensively traumatic experiences. It's common in post war soldiers, also victims of violent crime. The classic example of a trigger would be a car backfiring, causing a former soldier to relive a battle, leading to trauma, nausea and sweating immediately, then anxiety, hypervigilance, fear and anger for weeks or months after.

People dont get ptsd because a democratic vote did not go as they would have liked, and being reminded of the results of a democratic vote or election is not a blooming trigger.
8:47 am
Chris Whiteside said…
I assume (and hope) there is a degree of tongue in cheek, there, Jim.

The word "trigger" is used casually to indicate that something causes a group of people to get very cross. The expression or tag #GetBrexitDone seems to have that effect on a significant number of hardline remain supporters.

That's the sense in which I used it and if I really caused any offence to anyone I apologise.
8:09 pm
Anonymous said…
Only fools and Jim
11:11 pm
Jim said…
Foiled again.
6:07 am
Jim said…
This comment has been removed by the author.
6:08 am
Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Nick Herbert on his visit to flood hit areas of Cumbria

Please note that the post below was published more than ten year ago on 21st November 2009 Nick Herbert MP, shadow cabinet member for the Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs, was in Cumbria this morning to see the areas affected by the flooding. He writes on Conservative Home about his visit. Here is an extract. I’ve been in Cumbria today to see the areas affected by the floods. I arrived early in Keswick where I met officials from the Environment Agency. Although the river levels had fallen considerably and homes were no longer flooded, the damage to homes had been done. And the water which had got into houses wasn’t just from the river – it was foul water which had risen from the drains. I talked to fire crews who were pumping flood water back into the river, and discovered that they were from Tyne & Wear and Lancashire. They had been called in at an hours’ notice and had been working on the scene ever since, staying at a local hotel. You cannot fail to be impressed by the...
Read more

Quotes of the day 19th August 2020

Image
"Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise."  ( Cato the Elder , who lived 234 BC - 149 BC, quoted in "Lives" by Plutarch.) There is a similar saying by Germany's Iron Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck: Benjamin Franklin is supposed to have put the same saying in a more humorous form: "Wise men profit by the mistakes of others, while fools will not learn even from their own blunders." See also this thread on the "Quote Investigator" website . Let us all be wise and learn from the events of the last few days.
Read more

Quote of the day 24th July 2020

I was moved to put the passage below forward as a quote today when I saw a horrible post on twitter from someone writing that it was "excellent" that someone who took a different view from her about Brexit had died. I won't write which way round it was so that all the Remain supporters can assume the post was from a Brexit fanatic welcoming the death of a remainer and all the Leavers can assume it was a Remainiac welcoming one less Brexiteer. There's been plenty of nasty stuff on both sides but if you catch anyone of your own viewpoint  posting something like that who might listen to you, please do call them out on it - and point out that they're giving everyone on your side of the argument a bad name. Anyway, here's the quote from John Donne.
Read more