“How do you solve a problem like Remoaners?”

We can't, but we must communicate much, much better with Remain voters

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An appeal for some understanding

In early 2016 when the Referendum campaign was getting into full swing, there was an overwhelming sense that the people would vote to remain in the EU.

This was the accepted line. It was the ‘intelligent’ view. You would have to be an idiot, a ‘little Englander’, or a ‘swivel-eyed loon’ to think any other way.

The British people were then bombarded daily on their television screens, to ensure they understood the ‘correct’ way to vote. It is hard to explain to a Remainer just how all-encompassing and suffocating it felt to someone inclined to vote to leave the EU. And yet Leave voters turned out to be in the majority.

“All the experts say…”

How many times did we hear these words coming from the BBC, Sky News, and ITN? It wasn’t even just the economic experts they were quoting, it was the entire Establishment. Just about every ‘respected organisation’ was wheeled out to pronounce solemnly on the matter.

Every stratum of society was roped in, up to and including the Archbishop of Canterbury. And just to make sure, the Remain Establishment flew in foreigners too, such as the President of the United States who threatened the UK against voting Leave whilst standing alongside a beaming David Cameron, then the British Prime Minister.

THE UK's "EU ARMY"

This is only an indicative list and we're sure that readers could add to it in every way. But it will suffice as a reminder of the sheer scale of Establishment opposition to a Leave vote.

UK Governments & Political Parties

The UK Government, Scottish Government, Welsh Government, Labour Party, Lib Dems, Scottish National Party, Greens, Plaid Cymru, Ulster Unionists, Sinn Fein, SDLP, Alliance Party

Ministers

The Prime Minister, Chancellor, Foreign Secretary, Home Secretary, Defence Secretary, and 19 other Cabinet Ministers (80% of Cabinet in total)

Other politicians and entities

74% of all MPs, the vast majority of the House of Lords, the TUC, Mayor of London, the Bank of England and the Treasury (unofficially), almost all senior civil servants and ambassadors (unofficially), the major City Councils including London, Birmingham, Manchester, Bristol, Cardiff, Glasgow, Leeds, Leicester, Liverpool, Milton Keynes, Newcastle, Nottingham and Sheffield

Banks

HSBC, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, George Soros, JP Morgan, Bank of America, Chairman of Barclays, CEO of Lloyds

Business

The CBI, City of London Corporation, the bosses of Ryanair, Easyjet, Marks & Spencer, Asda, Vodafone, BT, Virgin, and 36 of the FTSE 100 companies, 90% of economists, the Institute for Fiscal Studies, Lord Sugar, seven of the BBC’s ‘Dragons’, GlaxoSmithKline, Unilever, Michael Bloomberg, Charles Dunstone, Bill Gates, and more than 1,000 other business leaders

International financial ‘authorities’

The IMF, OECD, World Bank, G7, G20, European Central Bank, World Trade Organisation (Just think about that list for a second)

Security

13 senior former Chiefs of Defence Staff and generals, the former heads of GCHQ and JIC, the former heads of police services, the Secretary-General of NATO, Head of Europol

Society

The National Farmers Union and almost all other trades unions, Universities UK, National Union of Students, NHS Chief Executive, over 1,000 barristers, the Head of the Church of England, the Church of Scotland, Church of Wales, Head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales, and many other organisations in society

Media

BBC, Sky News, and ITN, (all denied any bias), the Times and Financial Times (officially), and the majority of journalists (our opinion)

Science

The late Sir Stephen Hawking plus 150 other Fellows of the Royal Society, 13 British Nobel laureates, the Astronomer Royal, 'TV academics' such as Prof Brian Cox

Sport

All 20 Premier League football clubs, David Beckham, Arsene Wenger, Gary Lineker, Rio Ferdinand, Paula Radcliffe, Brian Moore, Lawrence Dallaglio, Bobby George, Ben Ainslie, and many more sports personalities

‘Celebrities’

Elton John, Daniel Craig, Jude Law, Bill Nighy, Simon Cowell, J K Rowling, Jeremy Clarkson, Keira Knightly, Bob Geldof, John Le Carre, Helena Bonham-Carter, Danny Boyle, Benedict Cumberbatch, Matt Damon, Paloma Faith, Jamie Oliver, and hundreds more ‘celebs’ of all kinds, 96% of the Creative Industries Federation

Charities

RSPB, World Wildlife Fund UK, Heads and former Heads of other major charities including Save The Children

International Politics

The EU Commission, European Parliament, the 27 EU countries, President Obama, Hilary and Bill Clinton, 8 former US Treasury Secretaries, Kofi Annan (United Nations), the Prime Ministers of Australia, Canada, New Zealand and India, the President of China, the Japanese Government and most other foreign governments worldwide

The Fear Factor

Much is made – quite rightly - of Project Fear with its threats of massive jobs losses, etc. However there was another fear factor at work. This was quite simply the fear of admitting you were going to vote Leave.

This factor is rarely brought to the attention of the media or indeed of Remainers, by the very nature of the problem itself. Those who felt intimidated from standing up and stating they were in favour of Leave still feel the same way today. This is precisely why Remainers mostly remain in blissful ignorance of the anxiety their side has caused to millions of people.

We can cite examples, but of course they are unattributable. There is, for example, the Company owner who stood up in front of a massed meeting of his employees, telling them that if they voted Leave then they shouldn’t bother reporting for work on the following Monday morning.

He then clarified after the vote, saying that he meant that the Company’s orders would dry up and that there would be job losses. Needless to say there weren’t, and the Company continued to prosper.

We have received countless private messages in the last four years from Leavers who dare not speak their name. Some of these messaged have been hard to read.

Observations

Let’s talk

We believe it’s time to bring this problem out into the open, so that moderate Remainers understand just how moderate Leavers feel.

Yesterday in the House of Commons we had the unedifying sight of Remainer MPs wasting yet more Parliamentary time on a censure debate, criticising the Prime Minister for his use of language. It seems that these little fake snowflakes are offended by terms like “Surrender Bill” to describe their seizure of government in order to overturn the will of the British people.

They really have no idea. For years many Leavers have felt intimidation on a daily basis. And we’re talking about ordinary folk, not those few campaigners who have bravely put their heads above the parapet.

It’s time this issue be discussed publicly. It will not alter the behaviour of the arch-Remoaners in Parliament, but it might produce some understanding from normal, ordinary people who voted to Remain.

And mutual understanding would be a great step towards reconciliation.

NOTE TO REMAIN VOTERS: Our daily output normally consists of well-researched facts from official EU and UK government sources. In today's piece we have sources for the list of the "UK's army of remain oganisations". Naturally we can't give sources regarding the intimidation Leave voters have felt for years. However we do not lie, as our normal output shows. You just have to take us on trust on this one.

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[ Sources: Announcements, letters to the press, TV appearances, interviews, organisations' websites ] Politicians and journalists can contact us for details, as ever.

Brexit Facts4EU.Org, 27 Sep 2019

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