An annual thread comparing Brexit with US Prohibition.
TLDR: The factors which led to Prohibition are strikingly similar to those which led to Brexit. The failure of Prohibition to deliver the promised benefits led to its demise 14 years later. Brexit may go the same way 1/20 I write a thread once a year about the similarities between the two, on their origins, their implementation and the campaigns to get them reversed. 2/20

An annual thread on Brexit

TLDR: Brexit is similar to US Prohibition (which lasted 13 years). Brexit won’t end soon but won’t last forever, so take a 10+ year view.

Tweeting on it once a year gives me time to think. This is #slowtwitter 1/19 To recap, last year I tweeted about some of the similarities between Brexit and US Prohibition. But there is much more to say. If the similarity holds, I still have 10 years or more to make the comments, hence an annual thread. 2/19

https://twitter.com/aidan_courtney/status/1474328700170608640?s=20&t=3mKWJ02krCtCzqedmep21A

Just finished re-reading @okrent ‘s masterful history of US Prohibition, Last Call, and cannot overstate the parallels with #Brexit

TLDR: The campaign for Prohibition succeeded, but its implementation failed. Yet it took 13 years to reverse. Take a 10+ year view of Brexit. 1/20 Like Brexit, the temperance movement which led to Prohibition was driven by growing disillusionment of those who felt that 'their' country was changing too fast. Rooted in rural communities/small towns, it was radicalised as a reaction to the growth of the major cities. 2/20