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Brexit: a new phase of civil war

- Boris Johnson's appointment as UK Prime Minister is simply a new phase of the Brexit Civil War
Dickson C. Igwe Photo: VINO/File
By Dickson C. Igwe

Boris Johnson officially became UK Prime Minister on July 25, 2016. His appointment was no surprise. Johnson is a darling of the UK Far Right. Much as Donald Trump is the Poster Boy of the USA's White Supremacists and Far Right-Wing Types.

Both men possess swagger and bluster. Both men are filled with the ''proverbial bull,'' something especially attractive to the mob mentality of unthinking and angry working class and blue-collar types.

In the USA, Donald Trump - owing to the USA's political nature- is being lifted towards a Second Term by a hyper-partisan politics that has deeply divided the USA along racial and ideological lines.

Similarly, in the UK, Boris Johnson is the bogeyman of the Far Right. Johnson has engineered the take over of the UK Conservative Party- a centre-right organization- by far right wing types, and Brexiters.

Johnson believes that his charisma and passion will win him a General Election against Opposition Leader Jeremy Corbyn, and the UK's Labour Party, even if polls indicate otherwise.

In any event, Trump's Pitch Fork Revolution is far more potent than Boris Johnson's Brexiter Movement. Why: because the UK and the USA are two very different countries and societies this mid-2019.

The USA remains a superpower with overwhelming military might. The UK is today very much a declining power with it's attachment to Europe a key part of it's world power matrix.

Most Britons are intelligent enough to understand this reality. The other 45% remain enamoured in a surreal world where Britain remains a power in the mould of the Britain of the 1950s and 60s - a Britain at the sunset of Empire.

Europeans possess a much more realistic view of their place in the world.

Individually, European countries understand that they carry much less clout, than when the 27 countries - a market of over 500 million middle class consumers- stand together as a single political and economic entity on the world stage.

Brexiters have failed to understand this reality. So Brexiters carry on with a march to nowhere based on nostalgia for a Britain that no longer exists.

Thankfully 55% of Britons understand this reality, and that is Boris Johnson's and his band of Brexiters' biggest problem. They will not take the rest of Britain with them over the social and economic precipice no matter ''how posh the queen's English.''

So, the biggest test is yet to come for Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

Johnson will attempt a ''crash out'' of Europe before Haloween: a No Deal Brexit.''

It is doubtful a majority of UK lawmakers see that as acceptable.

So Johnson intends to stage a coup, termed the prorogue of Parliament, to force a No Deal Brexit.

This will simply plunge the UK into economic and political crisis.

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5 Responses to “Brexit: a new phase of civil war”

  • ann (27/07/2019, 15:27) Like (2) Dislike (0) Reply
    another interesting read
  • black man (27/07/2019, 17:17) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
    its time for independence
  • Racist claptrap (28/07/2019, 04:04) Like (1) Dislike (1) Reply
    Complete and utter rubbish about BJ - why do you purplish this sort of idiocy.
  • Quiet Warrior (29/07/2019, 22:03) Like (1) Dislike (0) Reply
    Birds of a feather flock together. Donald Trump and Boris Johnson are cut from the same cloth. They are two boorish, bumbling scoundrels who are steep in racism, zenophobia, nativism, discrimination.......etc. Boris Johnson is in the league with Enoch Powell; Donald Trump, George Wallace. Britain once corral the waves but that ship sail a long time ago; the sun does set over the Commonwealth. The UK is on the verge of crashing out of the E.U. This would be disastrous for the UK economically. A majority of Scotish and Northern Island voters voted to stay in the E.U. Therefore BREXIT would take the UK out the E.U. and may also break up the UK union of England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. Scotland has an increasing itch of going independent. Boris has a challenging job to keep the UK United.
  • Quiet Rebel (30/07/2019, 16:22) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
    “They are two boorish, bumbling scoundrels who are steep in racism, zenophobia, nativism, discrimination.......etc.“ Think White Nationalist should be added to the list. They want US and UK to be White countries.


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