We must, without ceding to the old myths of totalitarianism, restore meaning to the ideal of sovereignty.
“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.
Anthony Barnett’s book on BREXIT prompts the hope that Britain will continue to inspire both the US and Europe to ‘transcend ourselves by finding ourselves.’
What Brexit has shown us is that people are still easy to manipulate and that tribal divisions are still pretty much a feature of our political system.
This is probably the first opportunity since Blair’s disastrous Iraq venture fractured Labour’s support for Labour to reconstruct the alliance of left and centre which Blairites reminisce about.
The facts are simple: for the past three decades, 80% of the people are taken to the cleaners 95% of the time by the top 20% of society.
The politics of escapism won the day; yet the Leave campaign leaders are escaping from taking responsibility for the xenophobia and social divisions in the country.
