SteveS1
I heard that, pardon?
“Hobby Horse”? This from someone who complained about “milk and honey”?
What is your point? What do you think my post was a deflection from, if not the supposed virtues of the EU?
The fact is that we have left the EU. We left the EU some years ago and we cannot now go back to where we were. If you are interested in the common good going forward, as you indicated you are, then trivialising the daily lie we are told about where money comes from as a ‘hobby horse’ is a far bigger problem facing us in the here and now than endless arguments about the injustice of 2016.
The injustice we have been subjected to for 40 years and continue to be subjected to today far outweigh the consequences of the injustice of leaving the EU. Even if we had stayed in the EU, those injustices would still be there, but less impactful than under Johnson. As I have said, we are talking about difference of degree, not substance and as such, is absolutely not a deflection from the cause of fighting for the substantial cause of the common good.
Moving away from the membership of the EU has made much more of what you complain about inevitable. Your reaction to that is hopelessly complacent. Any plan you have for the UK to re-balance in isolation to a place beyond where we already were before 2016 would make for an interesting read.