General Chat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMJFyaKSt8Q

"So we’re all agreed: In our bid to ‘quietly make history’, we would prefer a deal that does not in fact exist and for which there is no time left to negotiate because we’ve spent all of our time getting a deal we don’t want, meaning that now we’re readying ourselves to sidestep the humiliation of a deal we don’t like by accepting the ruin of a non-deal we don’t like either. We are, in almost every sense, on a plane to nowhere, and because we have nowhere to go, we have to convince ourselves that nowhere is exactly where we wish to be … With nothing meaningful to say about our future, we’ve retreated into the falsehoods of the past, painting over the absence of certainty at our core with a whitewash of poisonous nostalgia. The result is that Britain has entered a haunted dreamscape of collective dementia, a half-waking state in which the previous day or hour is swiftly erased and the fantasies of the previous century leap vividly to the fore."

New York Times