Brendan O'Neil doesn't do irony or even understand what it is. In this article in The Spectator (HERE) he thinks Brexit is "eminently achievable and possibly wonderful" and tells remainers to get over it. He describes efforts to avoid the national catastrophe that is Brexit "the longest hissy fit in history". He cannot have heard of Nigel Farage and UKIP although they have been prominent in opposing the EU for almost twenty five years.
Or indeed other Eurosceptics like Duncan-Smith, Redwood and Cash. They are all unknown to him. Their life long hissy fit about the 1975 referendum or the Maastricht Treaty goes completely unnoticed in the O'Neil household..
However, what is most interesting to me is his use of the word "possibly" in front of "wonderful" as a description of the end result of Brexit. It says all that you need to know about the massive roll of the dice that people were persuaded to make on June 23rd last year. Which nation of sentient beings would embark on such a gamble without a detailed plan? All we have is the hope that it might possibly be wonderful. Or it might not. It might be a catastrophe. Who knows?
