Brexit means the Parthenon marbles must go home!

After expensive soft fruit, blocks to Amazon deliveries and delays in getting pet passports, comes thislatest issue of the day in the Guradnia:

Brexit chisels away any right Britain had to the Parthenon marbles 

Apparently, the Greeks have renewed their demand for the repatriation of the marbles (once called the Elgin marbles, we are reminded, but keeping the name would support cultural colonialism).

The columnist (one R L Coslett ) freely admits that:

It is a subject of great controversy [for gaurdinanistas no doubt], but one that most Britons, especially those who are young and not of an imperialistic bent, struggle to care about. When polled in 2014 by YouGov, only 23% of British people wanted to keep them 

So where's the beef? One argument used to be that the marbles were better conserved in the British Museum, but Coslett wins one of the prizes for shoehorning Brexit into everything by saying: 'Can the British Museum really lay claim to being a museum for the world when the British government has jettisoned freedom of movement in its Brexit negotiations?'

An immigration policy somehow contradicts museums? Beats me -- but Coslett probably has people like me in mind when she says:

There are many people who regard my generation [I think she is 30] as snowflakes for wanting to decolonise education curriculums or objecting to certain statues on university campuses. But we are also a generation of remainers firmly internationalist in outlook [a clue here to my eternal dilemma about the passions inspired by Remain?] . For us, one of the greatest moral statements [probably a better clue]  our government could make to express regret for past colonialist behaviour would be to return the Parthenon marbles to their rightful owners. They won’t, of course. Conservatism is after all a commitment to old-fashioned, traditional values. In contrast, Jeremy Corbyn says that any Labour government led by him would return the marbles. He gets it. 

The finer sensibilities of her generation are on clear display, with her moral internationalism. She says 'would you accept a thief hoarding stolen goods on such a basis? This is a question of doing what is right'

That link recycles an earlier Graun piece written in the shock of the aftermath of the referendum, suggesting that returning the marbles might be part of a Brexit deal, or at least retain Europe's good will]. There is also this: 'Meanwhile, Britain can surely make do with plaster casts of the sculptures. The majority of visitors probably wouldn’t even notice, or care.' 

Oh, if only more of us were less philistine and could see the moral and internationalist case implied in mere appearances with the certainty of Coslett's generation. We would never have voted for Brexit in the first place.