Saturday, February 23, 2019

Britain in the Crazed Brexit Vortex


Roger Cohen, The New York Times, Feb. 22, 2019

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Excerpt:
The bottom line is simple: Brexit has been, is and will be a disaster for Britain. The 2016 vote was manipulated through lies. A country that has benefited from its 46-year participation in a union of more than a half-billion Europeans is drifting toward a self-amputation understood by few, opposed by the young, abetted by a dissembling anti-American Labour leader, driven by little-England Tory right-wingers holding the country for ransom, and, according to polls, no longer wanted by the majority. ...

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