Britain: The End of a Fantasy | by Fintan O’Toole | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books

The wisdom of this article by Finton O’Toole is unquestionable and I urge everyone trying to make sense of the mess our country is in to read it and share it.

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Fintan O’Toole

Brexit is an elite project dressed up in rough attire. Because Theresa May doesn’t actually believe in Brexit, she’s improvising a way forward very roughly sketched out by other people. In Britain’s recent election, May’s phony populism came up against the Labour party’s more genuine brand of anti-establishment radicalism that convinced the young and the marginalized that they had something to come out and vote for.

Source: Britain: The End of a Fantasy | by Fintan O’Toole | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books