Look closer: The PC liberal agenda started with New Labour, and over their 8 year reign we got a divergence of attitude.
No - you look closer.
Look more closely, and actually bother to think, about what "political correctness" really is, and more importantly what it is not.
If it is anything, it is simply the principle that you should think about the things you say and do to avoid needlessly, thoughtlessly or gratuitously giving offence to people.
It does not mean that councils cannot put up Christmas lights for fear of offending non-Christians
It does not mean that the "Baa Baa Black Sheep" nursery rhyme has to have its words changed.
It does not exist in the pejorative sense meant by those who use the term to complain. In that sense it is a concept invented by people who wish to discredit liberal and progressive social policies.
And I suspect you are one of those people, or you are someone who has been brainwashed by the likes of the Mail and the Express into believing that is what PC is. What you or your fellow travellers do is to promulgate that notion (or, if that doesn't work, make up lies such as councils banning Christmas lights) so that you can bang on about "political correctness gone mad", your ultimate aim being to bring about an environment where
any criticism of racism, or sexism, (or <whatever>ism), is
all daft and over-sensitive, and is
all "political correctness gone mad", and slowly and insidiously that view takes hold.
What happens then is that people start to act as if political correctness means bending over backwards to not give offence where none can be taken, or to deliberately avoid doing anything where gender, or race, or whatever is a genuine factor.
What happens then is that some people running nurseries think they
do have to change the words of Baa Baa Black Sheep. Which is stupid and offensive to anybody who can think.
What happens then is that child sexual exploitation goes on for years and years without being properly investigated because the agencies involved believe that political correctness means it would be "racist" go after the perpetrators because they are Asian. How many children's lives were utterly and permanently ruined because people like you created this false notion of what "political correctness" is?
We witnessed this divergence with switch to a coalition of Conservatives and Lib Dems -the first real sign of a political war that had been brewing among the electorate between the New liberals and the disenfrachised common-law Conservatives.
What has that got to do with membership of the EU?
Next, the disenfranchised voted in a fully Conservative government who were the best of a wet bunch (againt most predictions).
Leaving aside the sheer suicidal insanity of people whose lives had been wrecked by Thatcherism and the bankers and the austerity cuts ever voting Tory in the first place, what has that got to do with membership of the EU?
Then they went one step further and told all the parties just what they thought of them, by voting Leave (against most predictions).
And there you have it.
Voting to leave the EU, with all the damage that will wreak, and all the limitations it will force onto future generations because you don't like the way that successive UK governments have treated you? Where on earth is the sense in that?
How on earth is giving one set of uncaring, disconnected, "Westminster bubble" elites such an embarrassing kicking that they get ousted by a replacement set of the same going to help them?
Did the people who voted like that
really think that it would reverse the cuts, build transport infrastructures and businesses, generate investment and jobs?
And if they didn't, then WTF did they do it?
Philip Pullman summed it up quite well:
"We had a headache, so we shot our foot off. Now we can't walk, and we still have the headache."
It's not democracy, at least, not the sort that has any decency, or claim to be based on understanding, knowledge and reason.
It's not democracy, not if democracy is to mean anything useful, and is to be a sensible way to run a country.
It's mob rule. It's the ballot-box equivalent of rioters burning down their own shops and their own pubs and their own cars.
This was the biggest wake-up call for the liberal agenda so far (esp for London); they have suddenly discovered that half the population will no longer be browbeaten into sharing their wet dream of the future. We may yet remain in the EU, but not as we know it: the liberals are going to be looking over their shoulder a lot more from now on.
Just what is it about ideas such as freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of religion, free markets, civil rights, democratic societies, secular governments, and international cooperation that you don't like?
Also, referenda have no formal place in our constitution, and are not legally binding. What are you going to do if the huge majority of MPs who support remaining decide that they are not going to be browbeaten by your side,
who you clearly say did not vote to leave because that's what they actually wanted to do, into flushing this country down the pan?
