Quote Originally Posted by Elwood Blues View Post
Not "we" actually.

Those Boneheads from the EDF et al have always been like that.

And they've been there since I was a lad (and before).

Moseley and the black shirts before my time.

Skinheads,National Fron,BNP who I remember.

Various left wing groups over the years

In these social media and mobile phone days it it easier for the moron extremists of left or right to mobilise.

But of course many (such as good old James O'Brien who is somewhere in that twitter feed) see it all through the prism of Brexit.

It is far more complex than that
Yes, we. Read the Tweet, it's ridiculous that the society we all live in has got to the stage where there are so many people out there who are willing to defend such barmy logic simply because they hate what the other side stands for. Somebody asked in another thread how the UK of the late 2010s/early 2020s will be viewed in fifty years time, I wouldn't be surprised if it is as a nasty, polarised, paranoid country where people on either side of the argument had lost trace of the decency, tolerance and inclusiveness which, despite its problems, was once there at its heart.

I've never known the country as divided as it is now - I'm as guilty of it as anyone as I, like so many others on both sides resort to feeble whataboutery to make a point against the other lot who, increasingly, I have grown to despise. We are in a vicious circle and, although you, apparently, want to deny it, the Brexit referendum was the catalyst for it all.