With the ongoing arguments about Brexit, the potential repercussions, the pros, the cons, the endless blame for the result of the referendum, the one common refrain is that it’s done – ‘Get Over It’.
And it raises the question of exactly what is the statute of limitations on recriminations for past activities, errors, less than total honest statements?
i suppose the obvious answer is ‘It All Depends’. Genocide has a fairly lengthy time limit, and rightly so – but more for the instigator and their acolytes than the nation that may have positively or passively allowed or supported the activities.
A criminal pays the cost with prison and then, hopefully moves forward, depending on the crime of course. Even the easiest definition of past misdemeanours has got endless subdivisions.
And when it comes to the ‘Celebrity’ circus of past errors of judgement, the time frame seems to relate more to the level of celebrity, the salaciousness of the slip, and the volume of other, juicier gossip.
At the moment, on either side of the Atlantic, we have two very interesting examples of the get over it statute of limitations.
In the US, we have the extremely unedifying vision of a bloated orange ego running riot with anything remotely related to the truth, and pulling along behind him the disillusioned middle America, spectacularly failed by their natural party, the Republicans. We are yet to see whether the endless racist, misogynist and plain bullshit statements will ever catch him up.
meanwhile, in our dear islands, we have the three biggest bullshitters of the Brexit campaign now in charge of the negotiations for their intended outcome. and again, we have to wait and see what sort of mash-up they provide as their solution to our independence from Europe.
But what about the ‘Get Over It’? Simply, I am still more than angry about the lies, half-lies and blatant misdirection that was paraded by the Brexitiers as the truth, until it was denied within 24 hours of winning.
And I am still more than angry with those that voted to leave, because it would only have taken 5 minutes of querying the statements to see that it was all bullshit. But it was easier to blame the EU for the misfortunes of this blessed kingdom than to accept that electing the Tories, or not paying attention to what was really happening, was the reason for the problems that exist.
And it is always easier to accept a neatly packaged vision of our country’s ills than to see and accept what they actually are. Because that means we have to take responsibility for it ourselves.
Mañana is easy, shrugging shoulders is easy. But real citizenship isn’t. Because it brings involvement and responsibility, and culpability.
So no, I will not ‘Get Over It’. not for a long, long time.
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