That’s True Too

Leave to Remain

Deciding that a documentary is just too excruciating to watch beyond the first 10 minutes isn’t, admittedly, a great way to start a review. But, when I tell you I’m referring to the BBC’s recent two-part series Brexit: A Very British Civil War, you may have some sympathy with me.

That such a pack of arrogant, entitled, careless men (and they were, mostly, men) should have played such cynical games to such devastating effect – and to witness their refusal to feel any shame about it even now – is sickening.

And being reminded of Boris Johnson’s breathless blather as he smirkingly asserts that he didn’t need to back the leave campaign because “I would have become Prime Minister anyway” was the final straw.

On the positive side, perhaps it will have driven more people to join the growing number of us who recognise that – in an increasingly insecure world, and with the UK economy suffering a loss of between 4% and 8% of GDP as a result of Brexit – the best hope for our future is to rejoin.