#Brexit is driven in large part by hate and destruction. Delivered by - amongst others - the BBC to an uncritical population.
When the destruction begins to take effect, the hate will also probably peak. We are in for a rough time.
It’s interesting to think that this destructive urge was in large part born and nurtured in the larger English public schools.
It’s a tragedy that the sense of English nationality these schools seem to have fostered has proved incompatible with the European identity that a very large part of the UK population has come to share and feel at home with.
Many Remainers like myself have simply been shocked by the hostility to the EU and by the outright rejection of any part of a European identity that we now see daily in the words of politicians. on our media, on the BBC and in our streets.
It is such an irrational tendency that it is very hard to understand the rationale behind it! But peddling this kind of hate that will have such destructive consequences is not something a country can successfully endure. It has to be fought at some point and stopped.
This is why it is so disheartening that to date every opposition has flopped - within the Tory party, in the LibDems, in Labour. Everywhere except the SNP. It seems the best antidote to the destructive urges of Brexit is another kind of nationalism.
But at some point there has to be opposition in England to the destruction of Brexit. What form will that take? No one seems to know. And since every preceding form has been ineffective, will it take some new hitherto unseen political form?
Maybe some form of civic nationalism like in Scotland? That would surely be a positive and benign development. Or might it be (surely unlikely) some chaotic kind of revolution that might be as unwelcome in its unpredictable consequences as Brexit itself?
• • •
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to
force a refresh
