"For while the Brexit vote was certainly underpinned by a melancholic longing for a glorious past, the era it sought to relive was less the second world war than the longer, less distinguished or openly celebrated period of empire."
"Douglas Carswell, the sole Ukip MP during the referendum, was raised in Uganda; Arron Banks, who bankrolled Ukip and the xenophobic Leave.EU campaign, spent his childhood in South Africa, where his father ran sugar estates, as well as in Kenya, Ghana and Somalia;"
"Henry Bolton, the current head of Ukip, was born and raised partly in Kenya; Robert Oxley, head of media for Vote Leave, has strong family ties to Zimbabwe. One can only speculate about how much impact these formative years had on their political outlook,"
"(Carswell attributes his libertarianism to Idi Amin’s “arbitrary rule”) but it would be odd to conclude they didn’t have any."
Hardly the BRITISH perspective on future of UK!!
More like a list of people with a heightened sense of injustice and an axe to grind!!
WHO rules UK?
Hardly the BRITISH perspective on future of UK!!
More like a list of people with a heightened sense of injustice and an axe to grind!!
WHO rules UK?
"Ammon said he had great confidence in Britain, but he feared its “influence will be diminished” after Brexit."
"Ammon identified three illusions or concerns that needed to be addressed to prevent a breakdown in the talks, relating to the benefits of future UK free trade deals, the Irish border and the terms of a specific UK-EU free trade deal."
“The idea that there is in future a bonanza or a pot of gold somewhere through free trade agreements with third parties seems fanciful,” he said.
“The idea that you leave the customs union because the customs union would forbid you from entering separate free trade agreements with third countries concerns me."
“There may be a desire on both sides not to have a border, but, without being in a customs union, I cannot see how to have no border.”
"Brexit, he said, was part of a wider, international populist revolt against politicians."
“Populism provides easy and understandable answers to very complex problems,” Ammon said.
BUT these SIMPLISTIC answers rarely RESOLVE complex problems!!
This is evident in History!!
“Populism provides easy and understandable answers to very complex problems,” Ammon said.
BUT these SIMPLISTIC answers rarely RESOLVE complex problems!!
This is evident in History!!
