Discussion: where are we? 7th October 2016.

Events at the Tory conference last week were stunning. Nobody in their right mind would have predicted a year ago that we'd be talking about a very hard Brexit. Even Nigel Farage would have not been able to say that with a straight face.

The Tories have shifted so far to the right that they now occupy the ground that UKIP had at the last election. I grew up with Thatcher, and May is far to the right of her, in my view.

Today they banned non-British academics from giving neutral advice on Brexit. This is really most bizarre. It seems to me to be nationalist paranoia of a most unhealthy sort.

The pound has tumbled dramatically again, due to the speech that May gave.

Is this a bluff by May? A negotiating tactic? I don't see how either gets her anything; what she's doing harms her negotiating position, if anything. So is she appealing to voters? Presumably the UKIP voters, who she wants to woo back?

/r/brealism Thread