Cancelling Brexit might spark a hard right backlash. But delivering Brexit definitely will

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1. I can think of no other group in our society that politicians would admit to running scared of.

If politicians are cravenly going to point to the prospect of civil unrest, well, this country's not been slow to clamp down on that in the past.

If it's the prospect of electoral gains for the "hard right", then it's up to politicians to start doing their jobs and quit pandering to extremist views, rather than parroting that "they have a point" and vying with each other to see how far and how fast they can follow them down the various rabbit holes.

So what's the idea? - Give the "hard right" whatever they want, then they'll just pipe down and be satisfied? They won't be empowered and carry on demanding more and more and more? Really?

As the article so rightly points out, what may well empower the "hard right" is when they and the less "hard" who've fallen into step behind them finally realize that all the ills cynical bastards like Farage and his fellow travellers in the mainstream parties have been blaming on immigrants and the EU end up not being their fault at all.

Then what?