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No, I’m sorry, you don’t simply dismiss views that you don’t hold as being Nazi racist. That’s cheap and does nothing to persuade Labour Brexit voters from rethinking their opposition to the EU. A lot of them feel (felt) that their livelihoods were being constantly threatened by a race to the bottom for cheap labour imported by freedom of movement. The unions were pretty vocal about wanting more state intervention and subsidies that, they felt, were not permitted under EU law.
Now what you need to do is tackle these questions head on and convince these Labour Brexit voters that this isn’t the case. How does a modern Labour party show that these voters haven’t been left behind by EU integration. Calling them Nazis just alienates them and, guess what, causes a crushing defeat to Boris Fucking Johnson.
But it sounds like you think anyone that disagrees with you is a racist idiot? And if you’re serious about reversing Brexit you’re going to have to convince people you disagree with that it is in their best interests. Calling them racist idiots is bad way to do that. Do you see that? Or you still don’t care about reversing Brexit?
No, I’m sorry, you don’t simply dismiss views that you don’t hold as being Nazi racist. That’s cheap and does nothing to persuade Labour Brexit voters from rethinking their opposition to the EU. A lot of them feel (felt) that their livelihoods were being constantly threatened by a race to the bottom for cheap labour imported by freedom of movement. The unions were pretty vocal about wanting more state intervention and subsidies that, they felt, were not permitted under EU law.
Now what you need to do is tackle these questions head on and convince these Labour Brexit voters that this isn’t the case. How does a modern Labour party show that these voters haven’t been left behind by EU integration. Calling them Nazis just alienates them and, guess what, causes a crushing defeat to Boris Fucking Johnson.
I don’t. There were in fact 3 groups of people who voted for Brexshit:
Groups 1&2 overlapped to large extent. Group 3 was relatively small: tax dodging businessmen, Tory politicians etc.
One shouldn’t pander to neither. People need to be educated (group 2) or compulsorily reeducated (group 1).
Group 3 should end up in prisons after the law is changed to make public lies with a intention to mislead the public a criminal offence.
As a strategy to reverse Brexit and win round people that voted for it, let me break it to you, calling them racist idiot cunts isn’t going to work.
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I don’t give a fuck what racists and idiots think so there is that.
But it sounds like you think anyone that disagrees with you is a racist idiot? And if you’re serious about reversing Brexit you’re going to have to convince people you disagree with that it is in their best interests. Calling them racist idiots is bad way to do that. Do you see that? Or you still don’t care about reversing Brexit?