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This is surely true unless we change course. And it’s true that the current 20-year malaise began with the financial crisis and the policy responses to it, amplified further by factors outside our control such as the pandemic and the Ukraine war. However, there is also Brexit - the disruption of our trading relationship with Europe which has done so much damage. This we can fix by rejoining the customs union asap and plotting a course (via a party manifesto at the next election) into the single market, EFTA, EEA or (preferably from a geopolitical and regularity control standpoint) the EU. I get to speak to a lot of people on both the right and left of politics, and pretty much everyone I speak to understands this, but pretty much nobody has a clue about how to do it politically. Therefore, unless a political leader emerges from somewhere who has the rhetorical and political skills, courage and vision to set us on the course to recovery by reintegrating us with our continent in this dangerous and fractured world, I reluctantly agree with the headline in the Spectator.
The case for the UK to join the EU is getting stronger by the day. If you’re onboard, make sure you join the >23,400 members of European Movement UK. This is how it builds.
—> https://t.co/EAfAthUNzQ
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I thought this would hurt more than 2016 but it doesn't.
That was a shock. This is just confirmation.
We now know that 2016 wasn't a fluke or an aberration, that this is what the majority wants: whiteness, patriarchy, nationalism, hatred, nihilism.
Whether I want to spend the rest of my life in such a place is something my mind isn't prepared to consider.
Right now, I just know that I'm seeing the nation with my eyes fully open and there is no mistaking what so many people I Ioved and once respected, actually value.
As heartbreaking as that is, I now know where they stand, and I know it's nowhere I want to be.
US Trump supporters gaining the kind of access to Nigel Farage that he appparently denies his Clacton constituents. Reform UK: putting American voters first.