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If you want to get an insight into why the current British government might want to break away in as total a way as possible from the EU it is worth reading the Dominic Cummings blog
dominiccummings.com/2017/01/09/on-…
dominiccummings.com/2017/01/09/on-…
The projection is fascinating. This isn't as much frustration with the EU as frustration with basics of democratic governance. In an autocracy run by "guardians" small technocratic elites can ram through change whatever the cost. In democracy it takes time, and a lot of meetings
Someone who earlier on claims to have informed himself about how the EU system works, yet does not seem aware of how the EU system manages the Single Market as well as movement in and out of it. No mention in all of this of a single specific EU institutional framework
This is how you run a campaign. A nimble team free of all restraints. It's not how you run a multinational democratic state, with its complex consensus-building, negotiated tradeoffs and dealmaking involving very different people and peoples your faction is interdependent with
Belief in small teams of "guardians" endowed with superior vision to elites he loathes, who can manage sovereign democracy through deep connection with vaguely defined masses. All expressed through complex badly edited texts desperate to tell you that "yes! I am an intellectual"
If Dominic Cummings reminds me of anyone it is... Vladislav Surkov
