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Heroic failure : Brexit and the politics of pain / Fintan O'Toole.

by O'Toole, Fintan, 1958-

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327.41040905 O886h

European Union -- Great Britain.

European Union -- History -- 21st century.

Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- European Union countries.

European Union countries -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain.

Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 2007-

9781789540987 (pbk.)

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Brexit and the politics of pain

xviii, 217 p. ; 24 cm.

"An Apollo book".

Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-217).

In exploring the answers to the question: 'why did Britain vote leave?', Fintan O'Toole finds himself discovering how trivial journalistic lies became far from trivial national obsessions; how the pose of indifference to truth and historical fact has come to define the style of an entire political elite; how a country that once had colonies is redefining itself as an oppressed nation requiring liberation; the strange gastronomic and political significance of prawn-flavoured crisps, and their role in the rise of Boris Johnson; the dreams of revolutionary deregulation and privatisation that drive Arron Banks, Nigel Farage and Jacob Rees-Mogg; and the silent rise of English nationalism, the force that dare not speak its name. He also discusses the fatal attraction of herioc failure, once a self-deprecating cult in a hugely successful empire that could well afford the occasional disaster: the Charge of the Light Brigade, or Franklin lost in the Arctic. Now failure is no longer heroic--it is just failure, and its terrible costs will be paid by the most vulnerable of Brexit's supporters, and by those who may suffer the consequences of a hard border in Ireland and the breakdown of a fragile peace.

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