Project Fear is right: we should be afraid

Posted on August 2 2019

Full marks to Irish taoiseach Leo Varadkar who said yesterday in response to the suggestion that he was simply promoting Project Fear about Brexit:

In terms of fear, I think we should be afraid of a no-deal Brexit … [it] would have very serious impacts on the economy, north and south, and on Britain. It could have security implications as well and it could have constitutional implications. It's something that we have to prepare for nonetheless. It is something we should be afraid about.

Sometimes the glaringly obvious ahs to be said. And Project Fear has always, rightly, been about something that we should rightly be very afraid of.

One day a lot of people are going to realise how true that is.

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4 Responses

  1. Pilgrim Slight Return says:
    August 2 2019 at 7:43 am

    BREXIT is the largest ‘leading astray’ of the public in modern history I think.

  2. Mike Parr says:
    August 2 2019 at 8:10 am

    no-deal Brexit will indeed harm both the UK & Ireland. It is to be feared. Unfortunately it is a matter of record that only when Tory financial interests are harmed do the Tories “get serious”. For example, the Tories only finally started to seek a political solution in NI when the IRA bombed the City of London (1990 – 1996) causing £4bn in damage – all of which was picked up by the Tory gov (or would that be UK taxpayers?). The refusal to seek a political solution was driven by ideology (“we don’t negotiate with bombers”) despite the British army telling the gov: we will never “win” in any meaningful way. Thus Tory ideology only collapses when tory interests are threatened – in the IRA case with the UK finance sector upping sticks and moving to places with no bombs.

    (for the avoidance of doubt I am not condoning the IRA bombings)

    This raises the question: what event (or events) will cause Tory brexit ideology to collapse? & how much suffering needs to take place before reality finally intrudes? Will an election dislodge the yahoos (ref: Gullivers travels) from government?

    Ending on a sombre note; the 19th century Irish famine & the (wholly inadequate) response to it sits fairly & squarely in the lap of the Tories. Peel was more concerned with “not disrupting markets” (sound familiar?) than with stopping people starving. One million died, countless numbers emigrated – halving the population of Ireland. But hey, England was not affected – so what’s not to like? Unless Tories see there is a direct consequence arising from their actions they sail on quite happily, totally oblivious of the consequences of their actions (or lack thereof) on others.

  3. Peter says:
    August 2 2019 at 9:52 am

    It’s rich the likes of the Tories calling other people’s arguments Project Fear. That is what internal documents showed they titled the Better Together strategy during the Scottish IndyRef. They are the originators of Project Fear.

    The Rev Stu Campbell of WingsOverScotland has produced the Wee Black Book (free to download from his site) detailing all the Project Fear scare stories over what would supposedly happen had we voted Yes which happened anyway. It also details all the promises over what good things would happen if we voted No which did not eventuate.

    For them to label the perfectly sensible comments of the Taoiseach as that is hypocrisy of the highest order. They need to realise we live in the Information Age and such things will always be brought up to haunt them when appropriate.