"The complex utopian narratives of theLeavecampaign can be called Brexitism; its adherents Brexists."
"All envisaged the recovery of a lost British Eden as the construction of a perfect future."
Fantasy, fairytales and Unicorns!!
"All envisaged the recovery of a lost British Eden as the construction of a perfect future."
Fantasy, fairytales and Unicorns!!
"Ernst Bloch argued that utopianism represents the triumph of hope over experience. And as all sides have recognised, very little in the recent referendum debate was concerned with the details of the United Kingdom’s membership of the European Union."
...little basis in reality!
...little basis in reality!
"The Leave campaign - dominated by hope, and all questions about what might happen after Brexit were brushed aside."
#LiarJohnson still refuses to offer proposals for future relationship between UK and EU - simply focused on ripping up UK membership of EU!!
NO Brexit strategy!
#LiarJohnson still refuses to offer proposals for future relationship between UK and EU - simply focused on ripping up UK membership of EU!!
NO Brexit strategy!
"The Churchillian EU utopia represents a bulwark against dystopia. It holds that Europe can be free and democratic but that the future return of fascism in any one country is best prevented by the pooling of national sovereignty."
"However, as some Remain campaigners, including SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon, complained, the wider pro-EU case was never effectively put before the voters. The bigger picture was ignored."
"This left the utopian field wide open for theLeavecampaign. Boris Johnson subverted Churchill’s utopia by claiming that Hitler and Napoleon , the embodiments of continental tyranny, were the ancestors of European Unity."
British leaders too, were ancestors of European Unity!!
British leaders too, were ancestors of European Unity!!
"A variety of utopian tropes were then deployed to project Brexit’s appeal, including the simple but effective image of UKIP leader Nigel Farage holding a cigarette and a pint of beer."
"This had long been his standard pose, representing the ordinary men of Britain who had been left behind by the loss of their old industrial jobs and the confusing rise of political correctness."
"Even Brexit campaigners Michael Gove and Boris Johnson had themselves photographed uncomfortably holding pint glasses."
"And so, fundamental to Brexitism was the notion of our plucky nation resisting the evil intentions of the European super state, and hauling up the drawbridge to resist the flood of foreigners."
By dumbing down, complex issue of UK membership of EU, the UK Electorate were duped!
By dumbing down, complex issue of UK membership of EU, the UK Electorate were duped!
"Rights of EU citizens to live and work in the UK would be restricted and (this was never mentioned) in return the rights of UK citizens to live and work in EU would be similarly compromised."
"In future, the British should stay at home. National purity can then be preserved."
"In future, the British should stay at home. National purity can then be preserved."
"However, all utopias are complex. They are undermined by their own internal contradictions."
"The CONSERVATIVE, protectionist utopia of 'little England', sheltering from modernity behind its borders, is directly contradicted by the neoliberal dream in which FREE TRADE WITH EUROPE MAY BE SACRIFICED BUT IS OPENED UP TO THE REST OF THE WORLD."
UK values and way of life - to be sacrificed too - all for the sake of rotten ideologies and "ever more wealth" for the lobbyists bankrolling Brexit and Tory Party!
"The conservative utopia of an England of traditional values is therefore fundamentally at odds with the neoliberal utopia in which free trade TRUMPS all other values."
"As Leave campaigner Ian Duncan-Smith said, an ECONOMIC DOWNTURN is a price worth paying for the restoration of national freedom. Job losses amongst the working class poor are therefore to be welcomed if British independence is restored."
Loss of livelihoods and lack of welfare support highlights clearly, those UK citizens that will pay the price of Brexit, in any form!!
"Brexitism depends on the prophecy that as soon as the UK leaves the EU all problems will be solved, from grand existential questions of national identity, to matters of daily survival, such as the right to decent housing."
Alas, the prophet Farage has already denounced this!
Alas, the prophet Farage has already denounced this!
"Yet the biggest collision will come when the conservative desire to control national borders meets the neoliberal belief that free movement of labour is essential for economic growth."
"When this happens the Brexist utopia will begin to break up."
theprisma.co.uk/2016/10/06/bre…
"When this happens the Brexist utopia will begin to break up."
theprisma.co.uk/2016/10/06/bre…
@threadreaderapp unroll please
@threadreaderapp "Mónica del Pilar Uribe Marín can co-ordinate 130 volunteers – journalists and translators – to produce her English/Spanish web publication, The Prisma, a "multicultural" newspaper."
"We are trying to offer another point of view."
"We are trying to offer another point of view."
"Which is? "Forget what David Cameron says. People are interested in other people. London, in particular, is a multicultural city. As an immigrant, you leave your country, but in a way, you bring your country with you and you share that experience."
"It shapes how people live in their adopted country, she says, and how they view events elsewhere."
theguardian.com/uk/2012/mar/11…
theguardian.com/uk/2012/mar/11…
