A year on from #euref the sovereignty fantasists are still insisting it’s not about immigration. The racists are still insisting it is.
The Liberal Leavers are still trying to disown the forces that propelled their side to victory, the soft Remainers still trying to find
a way of selling the EU vision without admitting they won’t “reform” in the sense of doing what they tell them. The internationalists
are still despairing (or emigrating) and British politics is still in bits on the hard shoulder, every significant problem put aside while
we handle the consequences of a referendum on an issue that didn’t ever make the top ten public concerns. Never doubt that a small group
of committed people can totally screw up the country, indeed it’s the only thing that ever has.
And meanwhile, the world moves on. The British bubble seems to be far more self-absorbed than the Brussels one.
Originally posted as a thread of 7 tweets on Twitter on 23 June 2017. View the original thread.