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| How the Europhiles are blowing up Britain |
| 2018-12-24 |
| [Wash Examiner] You want to know what’s going on in British politics at the moment? Frankly, cousins, it’s a bloody shambles. I would use stronger words, but American newspapers are more fastidious than their British counterparts when it comes to profanities. Overseas commentators look wonderingly at the chaos. What has happened, they ask, often with a hint of schadenfreude if they’re from Europe, to a nation that used to be famously level-headed? Have British politicians lost their minds? Are Brits experiencing some sort of collective nervous collapse? Mental health metaphors are rarely helpful in politics. We are not witnessing a moment of communal psychosis. What we’re seeing has an altogether simpler and more prosaic explanation, and it’s this: When members of Parliament decided to allow a referendum on European Union membership, it never occurred to them that people might disregard their advice and vote to leave. When the result came in, the establishment felt the rejection keenly. They refused to interpret it as a vote for more democracy or for a more global trade policy. Rather, they saw it as a rejection of everything that they ‐ that is, the elites ‐ had built up over decades. In company boardrooms and university common rooms and parliamentary committee rooms and civil service briefing rooms, there was a sense of injured disbelief. Rather than accept the verdict, a number of politicians, officials, and cartel business leaders immediately set to work to overturn it. Part of their strategy was to delegitimize the result ("Leavers lied! Leavers cheated! Leavers took Russian cash!"), but the bigger part was to ensure that no equitable exit deal could be struck. And, in that aim, they have succeeded. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #1 Not unlike the Trump phenomenon. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2018-12-24 16:06 |