Brexit Thread

[Pannonian]

That's all right. Blair and Bush DID achieve victory in Iraq...and still didn't have a plan for after. At least you can ascribe this non-planning to optimism.

Blair and Bush didn't abandon responsibility for their mess a week into their ground victory. Farage criticised the 350m/day for the NHS claim the day after the Leave victory, while others have disclaimed immigration controls within 3 days of the victory, and Greyblades and possibly PVH have said that Leave supporters have no responsibility whatsoever for the aftermath. One of the Labour MPs has set up a record listing all the promises that the Leave campaigners have abandoned after they got their result. And it's not yet 3 weeks after the result. They were idiots, but on following through with their promises and planning for the aftermath, Blair and Bush were far, far more responsible than the Brexit campaigners.

Among the Brexit leaders, Farage and Johnson, the two faces of the campaign, have either quit leadership or quit the leadership contest of their own free will, thus voluntarily abandoning ownership of the referendum result. Both within 10 days of the result. Blair left his premiership in 2007, Bush his presidency in 2008.