The front page of the Times today quotes a senior cabinet minister warning of the possibility of a ‘violent popular uprising’ if a second referendum overturned the result of the first. Immediately afterwards, Dominic Cummings is quoted as saying, ‘We are enjoying this, we are going to leave and we are going to win’. The said cabinet minister is then quoted saying that ‘it only takes a couple of nasty populist frontmen to inspire people’. The conclusion is obvious. We have two nasty populist frontmen and their plan is to inflame public opinion and encourage the threat of violence. Only the Times is too pusillanimous to say so.
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That’s their plan. It must be stopped. Dominic Cummings is a particularly unpleasant person, and Johnson is not much better.
Sounds like a protection racket to me – do what we say or you will suffer. Too many echos of the 30’s…
Yes, I’m not convinced that the threat of violence is sufficient reason for the Prime Minister to break the law.
Once we have a Prime Minister who is prepared to break the law, we are in a pretty bad position. And we already have one, even without the threat of violence.