New year, new depths of paranoia for the GHuardianistas

 Amid the continuing mystery of what Remainers actually want to do now (apart from whinge endlessly),  new reasons for despair emerge,partly from recent polls showing no surge to Labour, and large numbers of don't knows.J Harris in the Graun today: 

The wreckage of Brexit is all around us. How long can our politicians indulge in denial? 

If both parties ignore the uncomfortable facts, politics will be flooded with dangerous conspiracies and betrayal myths

The wreckage of Brexit bit is the same old stuff, blaming selected measures of economic lack of recovery on Brexit:

the wreckage of Brexit is all around us but our politicians will still not acknowledge it. The evidence now encompasses reduced trade, diminished investment and the fact that the UK has been the only major economy not to have returned to its pre-pandemic size.

He even wants to blame Brexit, and not Greenery, for "a malaise that has caused annual UK car production to fall by more than half since 2016."

The government responds to such news with its usual ludicrous evasions... Meanwhile, even now, Tory zealots cling to the belief that life outside the EU could still deliver all the promised prosperity and general magic, if only ministers would try harder. [and] the English political right – by which I mean a cacophony of voices, including Conservative MPs, the Mail and the Telegraph, and the kind of pundits now given a megaphone by GB News and TalkTV – has become steadily more eccentric and unhinged.

He cites the campaigns against wokery here, including stuff criticising Meghan Markle

And Labour? The tensions of Keir Starmer’s position are translated into denials of things that are self-evidently true. ...Amazingly, he and his colleagues also rule out any return to the EU’s customs union....The reason this once-devout remainer doggedly sticks to these lines is obvious: even if opinion polling suggests that residual popular belief in Brexit is now ebbing away, the Labour party has to secure the support of people who voted leave in 2016, switched from Labour to the Tories in 2019, and would supposedly greet any talk of revisiting the basics of Brexit with anger and dismay.

 A slight problem,then, nothing for Guardian journalists to worry about of course -- the electorate have been wrong for a long time, the racists. Parliament should ignore them and seize control?

The grifters and chancers who took us out of the EU are still around [and a few voters], threatening their usual mischief ...even darker forces may also fancy their chances...[Citing the 1930s -- in the UK?] betrayal myths and conspiracy theories – which have a much greater purchase on public opinion than anyone in politics and the media currently seems to realise ...do not ignore uncomfortable facts. When mainstream politicians indulge in denial, demagogues often make hay.

The clincher for this farrago [sic] of half-truth and paranoia is that some lyrics from a

Pink Floyd album evoke the essential problem “Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time / Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines.” This is what Brexit has done not just to politics, but our sense of the future.