08-20-2022, 08:15 AM
(08-19-2022, 04:17 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: What Brexit was, was an appeal to fear and prejudive, very similar to Trump's campaign. All these refugees are coming across the channel. We've got to secure the border and keep the UK more white. We are nostalgic for the British Empire and we want to make the UK great again. That is all brexit was about.
A lot ot truth here. The Brexiteers leaned hard on "the nation" and not at all on "the state". It's clan thinking raised to the sky. Insularity always generates lower growth in all ways: economic, social, intellectual and whatever consitutes expansiveness. Eventually, the Brits will rue the day, but that may take a long time ... longer than we have on this earth to actually see it.
Sad.
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