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Brexit Has Proved To Be The Greatest Shock Therapy In Our Nation’s History
And I will explain why…
It had to happen.
There was an air of inevitability about the 24th of June 2016.
We needed to be stripped off the stupid pretensions regarding our country.
The notion of British exceptionalism; of having colonized a quarter of the globe for centuries; of being an island race; of never having our defenses breached or occupied by a foreign power in modern times, in the way that our neighbours across the channel were, had left us with this false sense of invincibility.
This illusion of invincibility has led to the collective psychosis of the British people. As opposed to coming to terms with its new reality, it sought to recreate past glories and blame the immigrants for its problems.
And the only solution was to take the matter to the wider public by way of a referendum between remaining in or leaving the EU.
The arguments by those in the remain camp was never going to cut the mustard. Try as hard as Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, John Major and David Cameron had, Britain, in 2016, was willfully determined to go it alone.
Not even the gruesome murder of the Labour Member of Parliament —Jo Cox — in the run up to the referendum…