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- Nairn0
A remarkably self-unaware article from The Independent.
https://www.independent.co.uk/vo…
"Indeed, many European federalists, quietly, welcome the departure of the sceptical, whingeing, obstructive, negative British, the better to pursue their integrationist project. It is the neo-fascistic Italians, and the rising tide of populism in arc From Sweden and Denmark, across Germany, Poland and Austria and down to the Czech Republic and Hungary that really freaks them out. Matteo Salvini and Marine Le Pen scare hell out of them, not Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage. That’s why they have other, better, more urgent things to chew over at their summits." (They mentioned Le Pen but forgot to specify France - so, the three largest Euro-bloc nations then).
What this article admits is that large tracts of the European population, across the entire continent, are remarkably disaffected and increasingly vocal in their popular resentment of institutional impositions, mostly EU-led. Sorry, that's to be derided as 'Populism' isn't it? The bad capital P.
Italy risks financial implosion, the people of the EU aren't chuffed, but Britain is somehow uniquely incorrect in its decision?
No wonder there's so little trust and so much dislike of the liberal and metorpolitan classes, when they can be so obliviously obtuse and self-regarding.
- Signed, a member of the liberal metropolitan classes, who didn't vote for Brexit, before you jump down my throat.Nairn
- I just never fail to be amazed at how 'liberals' are so completely blind to their own borderline-fascistic perspective on How Things Should Be.Nairn
- Also, the history of the word 'fascism' is quite interesting: https://en.wikipedia…Nairn
- It's an infuriating attitude. Thankfully he no more speaks for 'liberals' than the far-right loons do for 'everyone a bit narked at the EU'Fax_Benson
- or maybe he does, I dunno.Fax_Benson