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The new prime minister is putting the country on “a warfooting” and assembles a “war cabinet” for a conflict with Europe.
No you didn’t travel back in time. The year is 2019. Yet political elites seem determined to reenact 1940 at every possible opportunity.
No you didn’t travel back in time. The year is 2019. Yet political elites seem determined to reenact 1940 at every possible opportunity.
And who are we supposed to be on a warfooting with, exactly? Ourselves?
Political elites over the next few months are going to invoke the Blitz, 1940 and the Second World War repeatedly, appealing to a deep sense of national pride and defiance.
Beware of it. If we go for no deal it's a political choice. No-one (unlike WW2) forced it on them.
Beware of it. If we go for no deal it's a political choice. No-one (unlike WW2) forced it on them.
To be honest, it's more than a little insulting to all the British men and women who have died in, you know, actual wars, fighting actual enemies.
"What did you do in the great Brexit war, Daddy?
"I went down to Dover with my clipboard and I made sure those bloody lamb tariffs were collected on time, by God yes I did."
"I went down to Dover with my clipboard and I made sure those bloody lamb tariffs were collected on time, by God yes I did."
