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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2018-01-09 12:00 pm

Interesting Links for 09-01-2018

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[personal profile] calimac 2018-01-09 06:35 pm (UTC)(link)
"Remainer" is actually best seen as an obsolete term these days, more useful in discussing a politician's past history or their general mental cast than their current position, rather like using "appeaser" after the outbreak of WW2. There were no more appeasers, but it was sometimes still useful in analyzing what a person would do next, e.g. if they sought a negotiated peace.

Similarly, what today are sometimes called "Remainers" are actually "Overturners," as in they wish to overturn the Referendum. That's a more extreme position than having opposed the Referendum at the time, and should be judged separately. A Remainer then might be an Overturner now, but has not changed position if they accept the Referendum results, because that was then and this is now. There might be a correlation between Remainers-then and Soft Exiters-now, and that's where it's useful to identify who was then a Remainer.