Death's Head wrote:How would someone who voted leave actually take responsibility? What could they do?
There’s two separate questions there.
1. By taking responsibility, I mean owning up to what they have done, rather than passing the blame on
“Oh it’s remoaners fault for talking the country down”
“It’s the EU’s fault for bullying us”
“It’s the weak Tory government selling us out cheaply”
Anybody that voted Leave, against all the warnings, should stop hiding behind bullshit excuses and just take some damn responsibility for the decision that they made.
2. What could they do? Well an individual Leave voter can’t do a lot. Hopefully they can learn from the situation and avoid making similar mistakes in future.
Leavers as a whole though? They can do a great deal. If a large proportion of them changed their minds and the opinion polls wildly swung away from Leave, then this whole sorry mess could be undone.
Unlikely to happen, but that’s something that they could do other than just saying “oh it’s the Tories fault, Labour would have done Brexit much better”
The people who are responsible are not those who voted,
Yes they are. They ignored all the warnings and actively voted
for this. If you wash in gooseberry fool, don’t blame other people if you stink of gooseberry fool afterwards.
but those who allowed a vote to happen with no plan in place in the event that leave won the vote. For a government to allow this to happen is something akin to rolling dice, which is not something that should be allowed if you are supposed to be leading a country.
Agreed. Cameron was a weak fool.
But Leave voters are just as responsible for this, nobody forced them to vote the way they did.