Where's My Faith?

I had thought Johnson was a complete charlatan who only joined the Leave campaign to further this own tawdry, political ambitions and that he was a frontman for a group of ruthless, profiteering, Eton-educated, elitist, oafish, immoral fanatics who care only about enriching themselves at the expense of others, but now I see from the comments of the dwindling number of fanatical Brexiteers that it was in fact, as a Remainer, my fault, all along for not getting behind Brexit. What have I done? I’m so sorry. The next time a drunk driver smashes into my car, I'll blame myself. 

I've obviously strayed from the pure ideology of Brexit by not believing enough in the hideously misinformed bullshit purveyed by those who value fanatical loyalty and appeals to emotion over science, data, veracity and intellectual rigour. True faith in utter bollocks, which some willingly accept with the zeal of a religious radical, has eluded me for some reason, probably because I have a predilection and appetite for checking facts and can perform complex, analytical and heretical calculations that are beyond the capability of the Brexit Ultras, like 1 + 1 = 2.

However, we all know that faith is a euphemism for gullibility. Many are so strangled and blinded by their blue scarves that they'll posit white is black, if Boris mandates it thus and not blink at defending the indefensible.

I am accused by some Brexiteers of 'throwing my toys out of the pram'. They are, however, blissfully unaware of the irony contained within their comment due to the throwing of toys out of a pram being a metaphor for petulant, self-destructive action - precisely what they voted for. 

I hear Brexiteers incessantly rant against EU elites, while being blind to the aforementioned Eton-educated, elitist oafs who run and plunder our country with their dodgy PPE contracts.  

They rage against an EU Superstate and EU Army, without once articulating what's so wrong with either, despite the first being impossible without legal tax raising powers and the latter requiring unanimous agreement (never mind about the UK having had a veto). Its like saying; "But climate action leads to clean air, which surely all agree is obviously a bad idea." No we don't - the argument is a straw man. Despite that, both ideas have many advantages and could additionally have provided Britain with a top-table, leadership position within a 2 speed EU. 

Brexit has paralysed the system, it has turned Britain into a laughing stock (you just have to read any international media to realise this, and not just European media) and it is certain to make us poorer and to lead to lower incomes and lost jobs - not a single forecast shows otherwise. Only a true believer in bullshit who is totally immune to reason, fact and logic would deny that.  

Rishi Sunak has even extended the Covid support mechanism to a No Deal Brexit scenario. Why? 

1. We are still being promised by Boris that No Deal is not a problem after all and that we'll prosper enormously under what the buffoon jokingly calls an Australian Deal - which is No Deal.
2. It's a short term loan to resolve what will be a long term problem - tariffs and their consequences aren't temporary (unless there's a substantive deal).
3. As a loan, how will it be repaid when the effect of a No Deal Brexit is so obviously catastrophic to exporters and importers, who indeed may not even be in business to pay it back?  

Yes, there was a democratic vote in 2016, but events have shown many were egregiously and mendaciously misled in their expectations and have since reconsidered. If you can't reconsider your route when your road ahead plunges over a precipice, you cease to be deserving of a driving licence, especially when the most recent polls show, well within any margin of error, that public opinion has changed to the extent that only 38% now support driving over the cliff edge.

As Carl Sagan so presciently put it:  

“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”  

Government, in this country, has become a euphemism for legalised theft.

Boris is following the Trump strategy of spouting so many lies that fact checkers have a problem keeping up, meaning that by the time the truth emerges, it has been swamped by yet another deluge of lies. He drowns out the truth with an avalanche of lies.

This site kept track of Boris' lies, but the updates stopped in 2020, presumably because the task became too onerous. Boris is a master of avoiding answering questions at PMQs - he either sidesteps them completely, or answers questions that weren't asked in the first place. Unfortunately, the current Speaker is as ineffectual as the proverbial, chocolate fireguard at bringing Boris to heel and has succeeded in making Parliament boring.