Instalment #1 (Post-Brexit-Decision 2016)
As a follow-up to a blogpost I did way back in 2017 upon the very heels of the United Kingdom's European Union referendum, may I immediately apologize for one of my obscurest posts ever...though it did begin well! Meandering off as it quickly did into covering some fascinating 'stuff', but on a wholly unrelated topic, i.e. the breakup of the Soviet Empire both 'at home' (i.e. vis-a-vis the USSR's now 15 independent ex-republics) and abroad (i.e. throughout one-time Eastern Europe). Again, my apologies, and especially for failing to rectify the problem (i.e. the deviant post) at the time.
I will return in subsequent days to take up where I initially left off, and explain how I came to 'embrace' a politician I had previously learned to 'loathe'(intellectually, that is, if not emotionally).
Instalment #2 (Post-Election 2017, and the 'fire of London')
[Following the Brexit referendum and now British Prime Minister Theresa May's calamitous snap election - and the revenge of the Bremain-desiring 'Y Generation' (if I'm not mistaken and confusing my generations) c/o Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and *his resurgent Labourites.]
And so, before this becomes well and truly, wholly outdated, let me 'simply' record a few observations on 'Brexit' and one particular bugbear of many 'Britishers' vis-a-vis 'Europe' and/or the European Union, one that is thought (by many professional commentators and others) to have been/proven decisive in carrying the decision to leave the EU 'across the line': the spectre (and seeming reality) of 'endless' immigration, i.e. the seemingly never-ending influx into the United Kingdom of especially ex-European arrivals.
Personally I refuse to accept that the majority of (politically informed/concerned Englishmen and women, anyway) are patently racists, narrow-minded 'bigots' and the like, or even that that was the only major reason people in England and Wales especially voted to leave the European Union - sure, by a statistically 'small' but I'd maintain nevertheless numerically significant margin and sheer number. No, there were numerous other issues/reasons/causes, not least the ever-increasing and progressively impinging loss of sovereignty over their own affairs that folk throughout the U.K. were increasingly not just suspecting but actually witnessing - in many areas of their daily lives in fact; as European laws framed and legislated in continental European corridors of power were given effect throughout the European Union. But these 'other factors' I will put to one side for the present, and hopefully return very soon and give you the guts of my personal assessment in my third and major instalment.
*Though Mr **Corbyn himself, like his one-time fellow veteran left-wing standard-bearer Tony Benn, hwas actually long (if not always and ever) a Euroskeptic (usually in a distinct minority in the British Labour Party) - of/for wholly different reasons, 'for struth', from many Conservative Party and UKIP supporters and politicians - a whole lot of the proverbial liquid stuff has now long since passed under ye average (very English) moat, so to speak.
** 'Corban' is interestingly a word used exclusively by the Master in a Scripture containing pointed and stern rebuke of the scribes and Pharisees, appearing in two identical gospel passages in both Matthew 15 and Mark 7: meaning, according to my beloved 'ole Newberry Bible, 'a consecrated gift' and/or 'an offering to God', in this instance one devoted exclusively to Him as opposed to supporting one's (probably frail, vulnerable and elderly) parents.
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