The pestilence of Brexit and the failure of the political class | Coffee House
Fully 71 per cent of Leave voters in England (and 60 per cent in Scotland) think the risk of violence against MPs is a price worth paying for Brexit. It is important to note that the research, conducted as part of the long-running Future of England project led by researchers at the two universities does not ask if voters would approve of violence directed against Members of Parliament. Meanwhile, not to be outdone in this race to a dismal bottom, a majority of Remain voters are also prepared to live with political violence if that helped produce, or was the price of, a political settlement they preferred. From which you may feel like saying this: Leavers are worse than Remainers and Remainers are ghastly.
The British have two great political talents: compromise and civil war.