Wondering why Johnson Regime is so determined to insult & antagonise EU, disrupt UK relations with Member States? Swopping partnership & cooperation of EU membership for other extreme, of petty belligerence, wasn't inherent in UK withdrawal. It's a deliberate policy choice. Why?
Now clear to all, save the most swivel-eyed Leave fanatics, that Brexit - particularly in the extreme incarnation pushed by Johnson & Co - has no particular upsides and a great many very considerable downsides. So if Brexit is to be fabricated into a "success", it can only be...
... by doing everything in Tories' power to drive deepest possible wedge between "us" & "them": whipping up nationalist resentment in UK, acting so obnoxiously that EU is glad to see back of them. Brexit can be warped into a "success", for minds poisoned by anger & bitterness...
... which makes whole enterprise even more shameful: Johnson & Co risk a generation of division & antagonism in Europe, & wider western world, just to vindicate their own lies & distract from their false promises. Which should make rest of us even more determined not to let them.
& while we wait for, eg the Labour Party to pluck up courage to get stuck into the challenge of saving EU-UK relations from Tory nihilism, all of us can still do our bit - big and small. Even just reaching out to EU friends & friends in EU to remind them: we're not all like that.
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