More than once said he had “ mixed feelings ” in relation to Brexit, was sensitive to arguments for or against the UK stay, even though he was convinced that in the end win the ” remain “by a small margin. After the murder of labor MP, I thought the perverse effect would reverse trends that pointed to the victory of “Brexit” and that was what seemed the last polls. However, none of this happened and just look at the map of the results to realize how the division of votes in the referendum penetrated deep into the social fabric, national and English politician. It goes far beyond the anathemas that the Europeans wanted to exorcise a monster that largely created when they are for decades to erode democracy in Europe.
“ Take our country back ” is a powerful, among other things, because it’s true. The “country” in ways more or less specious and never legitimized by the vote with the clarity that is accurate in these matters, had in fact been “stolen”, as indeed with many European countries, starting with South Europe. Want impose sanctions on Portugal and Spain and not France, because “France is France,” as Juncker says, it is the example of what is Europe today, indifferent to the national vote, behaving differently depending on the size of countries, and running to punishments like an old police. In fact the English referendum had something like the Greek:. The tactics of fear strengthened the national feeling
In the UK not anti-immigrant against the friends of emigrants voted, because the benefit that Cameron took the campaign, given by a Europe unprincipled, was exactly the exception of the United Kingdom could withdraw rights to migrants. In the UK not the old voted against the young, the field of city, the emotional populists against the “rational”, those who look for the “future” against those who look for the “past.” Voted for the Scots in favor of independence of Scotland via the yes to Europe, voted the Northern Irish who do not want an external border of the Union next to the Republic of Ireland, and voted the poorest and most excluded, taking the carpet to the Party Labour, and refused the vote to all that is great interest, beginning with the financial capital and the large companies that are long, more internationalist than any Communist International.
it was a combination often contradictory of voting intentions? It was, but democracies are like that. And the English have an old democracy, and a set of “peculiarities”, which allowed the EP Thompson one of the most remarkable essays on democratic and liberal acquired penetrated so deep into the UK without parallel in Europe, and “belongs” to all. From the habeas corpus , the trial by jury, respect for own traditions even when they seem irrational and ineffective, as is the refusal of the metric system, or driving on the left, resistance to identifying control , moments that could only happen in England as the support of homosexuals to the miners during major strikes against Thatcher, that still makes it one of the UK’s toughest unions, participate in gratitude the charts gay . There is a strong identity national culture. Some things are more important, others less, and not all are good, but that it means “being English”, a complex of history, culture, tradition, identity ties, which justified the “take our country back.”
the European bureaucrats and international money interests do not realize this fact, and think it is an anachronism, but Jean Monnet, one of the founders of a Europe that no longer exists, realized it too well. And it advocated an equal Europe of “small steps” of solidarity and that to exist, had to take into account the diversity of nations. A political class as the Portuguese, who went years to swear in election campaigns that was not federalist and now all agreed federalist and hyper-European, do not realize it, because there is much lost ties with national identity and accepts everything. Accept it now because the economic model imposed is close to its interests, because if European policy were Keynesian, we should see all the anti-European.
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