"If Brexit has one lesson for us, it’s that the status quo isn’t quite as unshakeable as we may think it is."
“Brexiteers’ sovereignty tapped into the colonial nostalgia and delusion of grandeur that is still part of its national consciousness.”
The European Union referendum exposes routine failures in Britain's exclusive and personalised ruling system.
"Hard as it sounds, Brexit should awaken us to the urgency of resurrecting the big questions, and once again contesting our future."
The Big Tent model has given way to a fight to the finish between ideologues and pragmatists, both further and further away from the “People” they are supposed to represent.
“For my part, my sentiment is not just embarrassment, but shame. That we should choose the coward’s way of turning on the EU in its moment of need.”
“Could it be possible to ban lobbying altogether, returning to true democracy, giving the facts and letting people decide and not corporations?”
"How can the UK be kept together with this degree of regional/national polarisation?"
The British government could decide which EU legislation should be discarded and which should be amended in the British interest.
If the nation is an imagined community as Benedict Anderson has argued, why place limits on our imagination?
BREXIT means YES for jumping into uncertainty just to show “who has the control”.
The public as a whole – not just those who voted for Leave – have every right to have a say on what they would like to come next.
