Push for Brexit- and Trump
Backlash over Immigration is at the heart of the push for Britain to leave the E.U.- otherwise known as Brexit. “We have an old-fashioned view that the best people to run Britain are the British."
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Though warnings over the dire consequences of Britain leaving the E.U. are heard daily by one world leader, economist, or military chief or another- many British are strongly in favor.
Peterborough, an ancient market city 45 minutes north of London is thought to be the least E.U. friendly city in Britain. In Peterborough," the initials E.U. are spat rather than spoken, Brussels is a dirty word, and all the prophecies of doom seem a small risk compared with the opportunity to unshackle Britain from Europe. "
" Immigration is by far the best issue for the ‘Leave’ campaign,” Freddie Sayers, editor in chief of the polling firm YouGov, wrote in a recent analysis. “If the coming referendum were only a decision on immigration, the Leave campaign would win by a landslide.”
Advocates pushing for England to exit the E.U. argue that getting out of the E.U. is the only way for the country to control its borders.
The anti-E.U. campaign’s emphasis on curtaining off the British isles from the rest of the continent and painting immigrants as criminals or addicts reminds people of Donald Trump's campaign.
“The Leave campaign is really the Trump campaign with better hair,” William Hague, a pro-E.U. former British foreign secretary, wrote last week, describing a “transatlantic mirror-image” of resentment toward foreigners and protest against the political class.
The "Leave" (the E.U.) campaign has not welcomed Donald Trump’s support, and it bristles at any parallel.
To Stewart Jackson, Peterborough’s ardently anti-E.U. representative in Parliament, Trump is nothing more than a “media-driven buffoon” who has built his campaign on prejudice and bigotry. The push for Brexit, by contrast, is in his eyes a rational rejection of a supernational union that limits British control over its own laws, “something that no American would accept.”
“We have an old-fashioned view that the best people to run Britain are the British,” Jackson said. “That shouldn’t be a radical concept.”
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Peterborough, an ancient market city 45 minutes north of London is thought to be the least E.U. friendly city in Britain. In Peterborough," the initials E.U. are spat rather than spoken, Brussels is a dirty word, and all the prophecies of doom seem a small risk compared with the opportunity to unshackle Britain from Europe. "
" Immigration is by far the best issue for the ‘Leave’ campaign,” Freddie Sayers, editor in chief of the polling firm YouGov, wrote in a recent analysis. “If the coming referendum were only a decision on immigration, the Leave campaign would win by a landslide.”
Advocates pushing for England to exit the E.U. argue that getting out of the E.U. is the only way for the country to control its borders.
The anti-E.U. campaign’s emphasis on curtaining off the British isles from the rest of the continent and painting immigrants as criminals or addicts reminds people of Donald Trump's campaign.
“The Leave campaign is really the Trump campaign with better hair,” William Hague, a pro-E.U. former British foreign secretary, wrote last week, describing a “transatlantic mirror-image” of resentment toward foreigners and protest against the political class.
The "Leave" (the E.U.) campaign has not welcomed Donald Trump’s support, and it bristles at any parallel.
To Stewart Jackson, Peterborough’s ardently anti-E.U. representative in Parliament, Trump is nothing more than a “media-driven buffoon” who has built his campaign on prejudice and bigotry. The push for Brexit, by contrast, is in his eyes a rational rejection of a supernational union that limits British control over its own laws, “something that no American would accept.”
“We have an old-fashioned view that the best people to run Britain are the British,” Jackson said. “That shouldn’t be a radical concept.”
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