LCD Views spoke to a diehard Brexit supporter today to hear why he’s still steadfast in support of Brexit in spite of all the alarming economic forecasts leaking out of the government.
“Because I’m a racist,” Mr Figel Narage told LCD Views, “you can have all the economic forecasts you like sunshine, you can attempt to get me to pay attention long enough to even understand them, but it won’t change my support for Brexit. How else are we going to kick all the bloody forinners out?”
Quite.
“I mean, you got people coming over here and working in our fields for low wage, seasonal work, that could just as easily be done by our ageing population, until the robots can do it all, or the teenagers that could otherwise be getting up to their eyeballs in a mountain of debt just to work some stupid digital economy job of yesteryear.
Why not have them do it?
The care work in a sector that doesn’t pay sufficiently and is on the verge of collapse because like every bloody thing else the neocon greed is good crowd get their hands on it’s been outsourced to blazes, then margins squeezed by ideological austerity to fill in the holes left by the banks, proper British people should be doing those jobs.”
Clearly.
“And the loss of the financial services? Slowly flowing across the channel? It’s just bits of paper. Who needs the revenue? Not the taxman! He’d just give it to the NHS or something, once public pressure finally causes them to cave in.”
Keep going.
“And anyways, if the NHS is sold off and gone, that’s one less thing for all those young, educated people to come here for. It’s a win win if you ask me. I’ve never seen a doctor in my life and there’s nothing wrong with me.”
You’re amazing.
So none of the doom and gloom, none of the loss of investment, none of the loss of international prestige, none of the long waste to come as we try to re-negotiate over 700 international treaties from the stand point of an economy which has underinvested in its infrastructure, again thanks to the neocons, for decades and is not best placed to compete against the EU, and will be much weaker in new negotiations as a result of all that, none of that can shake your support for Brexit?
“You would have thought Nigel Farage saying Jo Cox being butchered in the street just before the ref in 2016 would have shaken my support, him saying it was “inconvenient” timing. It didn’t.”
So what will shake your support?
“For me, and a core of Brexit supporters like me?”
Yes.
“Nothing. Because we’re racists. Now toddle along with you. I’ve got signs to get down from the loft to do with who’s welcome in the B&B I plan to set up to house english economic refugees from the north once the Japanese car firms make good their threat to bugger off.”
It seems he’s certainly taken his lead from the government’s many xenophobic utterances since Brexit came to mean Brexit.
Now, if only we had a major party of opposition willing to stand up and be counted?