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Tuesday, January 15, 2019

Brexit - Nostalgia and UK Politics [UPDATED]


George Will notes:
“In 2016, a majority of voters over the age of 43 favored leaving; a majority of those younger favored remaining. Since then, mortality has taken many Leavers, and many young people have joined the electorate. So, demography, combined with a new understanding of Brexit’s certain costs and myriad uncertainties, could cause 2016’s big bang that began Brexit to end with a 2019 whimper of a referendum saying, “Oh, never mind.””

Brexit: A cultural morphology
Frank Vogl notes:
“…the British people, once the U.K. leaves the EU, will be on their own, free again to wallow in their glorious past should they so wish, while facing grave economic challenges solely of their own making”.

Britain clings to imperial nostalgia as Brexit looms
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/01/04/britain-clings-imperial-nostalgia-brexit-looms/

The UK must abandon the imperial fantasy of “global military reach”

Labour’s refusal to oppose Brexit is becoming a historic error

Brexit Does Not Matter