Most continental political leaders, if not their voters, still believe this.
Their 2016 vote to leave the EU, ratified in December's general election, was not a vote for war and poverty.
British politics since the referendum has become so rowdy-sometimes to the point of dysfunction-because voters had the temerity to assert themselves despite resistance from a political and bureaucratic class invested in the status quo.
One feature of this new politics is how immune voters have become to economic scaremongering, which is all to the good.
Continental voters would be loath to scrap the EU, but they increasingly want to change it.
A Britain with greater political independence and deep trading ties to Europe without all the useless red tape and hopeless centralizing could be a model.
Britain's voters in 2016, and again in 2019, chose peaceful and prosperous coexistence with their neighbors rather than mindless but relentless integration.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/britains-independence-day-11580343281?mod=hp_opin_pos_1
Their 2016 vote to leave the EU, ratified in December's general election, was not a vote for war and poverty.
British politics since the referendum has become so rowdy-sometimes to the point of dysfunction-because voters had the temerity to assert themselves despite resistance from a political and bureaucratic class invested in the status quo.
One feature of this new politics is how immune voters have become to economic scaremongering, which is all to the good.
Continental voters would be loath to scrap the EU, but they increasingly want to change it.
A Britain with greater political independence and deep trading ties to Europe without all the useless red tape and hopeless centralizing could be a model.
Britain's voters in 2016, and again in 2019, chose peaceful and prosperous coexistence with their neighbors rather than mindless but relentless integration.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/britains-independence-day-11580343281?mod=hp_opin_pos_1
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