EDIT - We've cross posted there mack, see you've just posted to say you'll read the article. Would be really interested to hear your thoughts
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Can I ask you please mack, have you read the article? Oborne goes into every aspect of the situation in forensic detail, the fact he's now Remain instead of Leave doesn't mean he's 'getting into bed' with Blair and Campbell, they just happen to share the same position on a single issue.
Blair took us into an illegal war that led directly and indirectly to millions of deaths, I wouldn't give him the time of day, but he's remain. Am I 'getting into bed' with Blair because I happen to also support remain?
Let's say the guy who lives next door to you is a murderer, but he'd quite like to see a new bypass built to the next town over because the traffic is a total bitch. Maybe you also want to see a bypass built to the next town over, because the traffic is a total bitch. Are you now 'getting into bed' with a murderer because you happen to hold the same opinion about whether or not like you'd like to see a bypass built to the next town over?
Oborne is a fierce, independent voice, who will not be cajoled, threatened, or pressured into expressing anything other than his honest and considered opinion, he was a major and powerful voice for Leave, and now after three years he's had the moral courage to stand up publicly and say, 'You know what guys, I think we've got this one wrong'.
It's pretty easy to dogmatically stick to a single opinion and worldview and resist any notion whatsoever that we're anything other than right about something, admitting that we think we've called something wrong, that takes real courage.