My friends landlord chucked them out at short notice to turn the flat into an Air BnB. In February 2020. A lot of schadenfreude to be had there.
And then was trying to rent it out in Sept for 4-5x the normal price, obviously trying to make up for all that summer air bnb money the landlords felt they were “owed”
It is highly likely that the issue of the EU will be remarked upon from time to time. But you said that the issue will ‘dominate UK politics for the next 30+ years’.
I know there’s quite often a big dissonance between dis and the average gammon cheeked voter, but who the fuck is seeing ‘Dominic Cummings’ on the ballot and thinking ‘yeah, fair enough’.
Yeah, I was being a bit facetious in relation to your post that suggests the issue of the EU was done and dusted. The issue is never going away and will very obviously engender significantly more than “remarks from time to time”.
As I’ve already stated, outside of fringe political circles, mainstream political parties will not want to die on a hill over this issue anymore. Unless the Conservatives or Labour want to commit harakiri by bringing it back into the spotlight, it’s over. Although it won’t ever go away, it’s not going to domininate mainstream political discourse either.
Think we’ll have to agree to disagree. It’s going to colour notions of ‘Britishness’, patriotism etc for decades. It will also be used as a stick by the right to beat any party seen to be aligning with the EU / Europe on any issue whatsoever. I’m not talking just about membership.
I think the proof will be in the pudding. For the most part, a lot of things won’t change for most people. Labour supporters are split between Leave / Remain, so they definitely want to put it behind them. Any negatives could be pinned on Brexit supporters and the Conservative party who pushed it all through. I think there’s a lot of people who’ll have a vested interest in downplaying any differences.