A chaotic Brexit is part of Trump’s grand plan for Europe
The Brexit saga isn’t just about a negotiation gone awry, nor about the impasse a country finds itself in having fallen prey to a movement based on lies and deception. The wider question is about what kind of world we want to live in...Trump’s US is intimately intertwined with the Brexiter vision of Britain...first, the pro-Trump crowd still sees Brexit as an essential step towards the unravelling of the EU, an entity that, writes Grygiel, “has outlived its purpose as an ordering force in Europe”...Brexit, then, is seen as helpful in depriving Europe of any leverage to act (whether on the climate crisis or on multilateralism at large) in ways that might contradict a specific, narrow understanding of US national interests.
Then, as initially suggested or imaginary similarities become hard actual links:
If Brexit isn’t somehow stopped, the Trumpian-Brexiteer axis [my emphasis] will come to determine much of what unfolds in our part of the world.
F Ryan extends the discussion to appeal to Guardina readers on a more personally relevant tack. There might be too much critical politics for them, but they have a nice symbolic target to aim at -- Brexit:
Austerity created this mental-health crisis. Brexit has sent it into overdrive
More than four in 10 people say that Brexit has impacted on their mental health in the past two years; hardly surprising considering 44% of respondents to the YouGov survey believed EU withdrawal will worsen their lives. Some EU nationals living in the UK have even reported feeling suicidal as uncertainty about their future steps up.
It may be true that:
nine out of 10 NHS mental health trusts bosses in England said they believe benefit changes in recent years have increased the number of people with anxiety, depression and other damaging conditions.
But:
It is quite the irony behind Theresa May’s self-styled mental health revolution that her own government is having a hand in an ongoing psychological crisis.
Nothing to do with the scaremongering Remoaners of course.
There is a bit of insight:
The conditions in which we live – our homes, family, jobs, income – are shaped by the decisions made by politicians. This is particularly true if you’re poor, disabled, an immigrant, or a woman and therefore more likely to be at the mercy of state support – and to take the biggest hit from Brexit-type economic shocks [which are assumed as an extra decisive factor] ...A climate of growing economic hardship, from slow wage growth to the rise in private renting, coupled with a decade of far-reaching government cuts like the bedroom tax, disability tests, and tax credits, have all too predictably exacerbated this.... this is happening against a backdrop of buckling mental health budgets
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