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1/10/18

Britain: 2018: The Year British Politics Has to Wake Up - by Denis MacShane

The decision of 37% of the electorate to vote to leave Europe has cast a spell on UK democracy. What no one foresaw was the way Brexit would become the Ebola Virus of normal political activity. It has sucked all life out of British democracy.

Prime Minister Theresa May’s latest attempt — a cabinet reshuffle — merely rearranges the chairs on the deck of her Titanic.

May’s other Brexit-related gimmick – the announcement to turn the color of the UK passport away from the EU’s burgundy color into a nice shade of Tory blue in the future – is telling. It would be the same colors as Croatian and North Korean passports.

Better yet, finding £500 million to introduce and run her new Brexit passports shows how far Brexit has sunk. What once were the lofty proclamations of “Independence Day” by Brexit enthusiasts has now turned into a Twitter scorn storm about “Colour Me Blue.”

Read more: 2018: The Year British Politics Has to Wake Up - The Globalist

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