Post-Christmas downer: the plans for Brexit day events are already starting to be published. @BOZARbrussels is staging a concert/lecture called Goodbye/Hello. passaporta.be/en/calendar/go….
The Bozar listing reminds me how during 2018 the different masks of the Brexit project have been stripped away – economic case gone, optimism gone, ideology gone, even pub-bore diplomacy gone – until all that’s left is its fundamental core: pure political vandalism.
I don’t mean that in the context of Leave voters – they voted for all sorts of reasons we can and can’t know – but of the Brexit leaders, who for whatever reason are determined to smash down 40 years of peaceful co-operation and damn the consequences.
Some are nationalists, some are hyper-libertarians, some haven’t got over a teenage crush on the United States – but all of them are deeply deeply irresponsible, shallow politicians, happy to sacrifice people’s lives to finalise their hollow victory.
Originally posted as a thread of 4 tweets on Twitter on 27 December 2018. View the original thread.