Ian - I have 3 golfing buddies (yes, surprisingly enough, I DO have friends!). 1 of them told me he voted Remain but is SO fed up with Barnier, Merkel and Macron and the whine attitude of the EU (his own words) that he wished he’d voted Leave abc cannot wait for “us” to get out. He’s older than me and relies on medication coming from the EU, but he will not listen to any arguments about supply chain issues etc as he says that’s “just the french being french”
The other two are just totally ambivalent and, as they say, “Bored of Brexit” .....
They think I’m some kind of Wolfie Smith (youngsters - google it) character who is full of doom and gloom and can’t see any upside. They will NOT listen to any counter-arguments, so we’ve had to stop talking about it or our friendship will suffer. These are 65+ year old retired professionals who are intelligent but just swallow the crap from the mainstream media and think the BBC is ultra left wing. It’s scary. I don’t want to lose their friendship so I keep schtum - I’ve already lost a girlfriend due to her views on it, so I’ve learned to be quiet - which is a shame really, as I so want to say “I told you so ....”
My view on the general opinion that it was the older generation who voted out, is that the lie of the £350 million a week going to the NHS swayed many (despite, if they’d looked behind the figures, it being blatantly untrue) and the general apathy of all those who didn’t vote (and who now, in my opinion, can have NO argument about what’s happening) caused it all.
That there are still people around who think the BBC is left wing shows how difficult it is to change a person’s opinion.
If through watching the political correspondents and the way interviews become nothing more than party political broadcasts on behalf of the Conservative party, they can’t see how wrong they are, then you were fighting a losing battle.
Still. POWER TO THE PEOPLE.
