Half the fucking country, basically. As far as I can see, the single biggest problem we have is somehow getting people to think of anyone other than themselves.
The ability of people to not think through or just write off the consequences of their actions is staggering. I work for a regeneration charity in the poorest area of Sheffield. We see the long term unemployed, people with all manner of health problems, those well below the poverty line, every kind of monetary problem you can imagine. We have been supported by EU grants for years, without them we wouldn’t be here.
I am in charge of the four person (including me) finance team. Within that team I know that two of them voted Leave, and then Brexit. Both probably voted tory this time, I can’t bear to ask. Without EU funding they wouldn’t even be in their jobs. They can happily ignore the evidence of their own eyes with regards to what’s happening. One voted Leave because she was fed up of her hoover not being powerful enough (?). She can’t even see further than doing the hoovering. We argued about the consequences of it all, but ultimately she doesn’t care about anyone else’s problems.
What’s the point?
