Well said, POGS. While I have every sympathy with varian's efforts to see Brexit blocked, I do not believe that the multiplicity of Brexit threads on Gransnet will achieve anything, not least because I have never come across anyone departing from their initial position on any political thread (or any thread, now I think about it), because it tends to be principally those with entrenched views who post anyway.
It would be interesting to know, though impossible to discover, whether any silent Gransnet readers are swayed in their views by what they read here.
As for Brexit itself, it was always a dialogue of the deaf (iPad tried to change deaf to dead; for once I sympathise). That is the problem with referendums on issues like this: I rather fear that knowledge at the time of all the problems that have subsequently emerged would have made very little difference, not because Brexit voters were less intelligent than Remainers, but because for many of them the issue was and remains a visceral one.