No Lexiteer would have wanted to hand the reshaping of a post-leave Britain to people talking about Singapore-On-Thames for four years. bsky.app/profile/pete...

You are now repeating the arguments people offered at the time. I don’t think I’m likely to change my mind at this stage.

It doesn't make sense for a Lexiteer to hand the UK over to Brexiteers to build Singapore-On-Thames for four years, it simply doesn't.

A nuanced political maneuver often requires sacrificing immediate outcomes for longterm strategic positioning.

True. But on the whole, nuanced political manoeuvring and the sacrifice of immediate outcomes for strategic positioning doesn't include handing total victory to the enemy. A Lexiteer wants to start from as far left as possible before leaving. He or she absolutely does not want to lose the EU...

... when it serves as a centralising force putting the brakes on the ambitions of the right. It only makes sense to leave when it hampers the left.

I’m not sure he actually saw it like that. I’m not sure he thought it through. I’m not convinced he is very clever.

He's been at it for a long time, and it's not difficult to work out.

Absolutely agree. But lots of people who voted then discovered they didn't want what they got

Yes, and we all knew that was going to happen. And it's worse for us given it wasn't even our mistake. That that is always a flaw in the democratic process, one I've been complaining about since Thatcher got elected for her first term. It's the price we pay for a system that Churchill said was...

... undeniably bad, but better than all the rest.

Since then though, the mind-warping nature of social media and populism has sent the extremes mad - and much of the rest of us too

Very fair.