Quote of the day 9th April 2019
"For me, however, and I am sure for many people, the last 30 months of very bitter and angry debate has cut me in two. I have come to see that this is not just a simple problem of whether or not we are patriots.
Both Remainers and Brexiteers love Britain with equal strength and sincerity. Remainers are not citizens of nowhere, as the Brexiteer insult goes. Nor are Brexiteers ignorant, closet racists, as, disgracefully, some Remainers like to sneer.
Many who voted Leave have a deep – perhaps the deepest – understanding of the communities where they live; and in some of these, everyday life has been spoiled for many by policies imposed on them by a pro-European Westminster elite: policies they never voted for.
The truth is these apparently warring parties, Remain and Leave, represent different elements of the same country and opposite sides of the same coin. Sometimes the war is within our own breasts. I feel it within mine."
(Peter Oborne, writing on the Open Democracy site here.
The article is about why, having been a strong supporter of Brexit, he has modified his views. I suspect many people reading the article will agree with much of it and disagree with many other things he writes, but I think many of us would benefit if we read, mark, learn and inwardly digest the extract above.)
Both Remainers and Brexiteers love Britain with equal strength and sincerity. Remainers are not citizens of nowhere, as the Brexiteer insult goes. Nor are Brexiteers ignorant, closet racists, as, disgracefully, some Remainers like to sneer.
Many who voted Leave have a deep – perhaps the deepest – understanding of the communities where they live; and in some of these, everyday life has been spoiled for many by policies imposed on them by a pro-European Westminster elite: policies they never voted for.
The truth is these apparently warring parties, Remain and Leave, represent different elements of the same country and opposite sides of the same coin. Sometimes the war is within our own breasts. I feel it within mine."
(Peter Oborne, writing on the Open Democracy site here.
The article is about why, having been a strong supporter of Brexit, he has modified his views. I suspect many people reading the article will agree with much of it and disagree with many other things he writes, but I think many of us would benefit if we read, mark, learn and inwardly digest the extract above.)
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