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  • Richard_NabaviRichard_Nabavi Posts: 30,822
    edited February 2019
    TOPPING said:

    As you are so fond of asking wrt those no deal "preparations", Richard - what would you have them have done?
    Fudge the backstop, and focus instead on the future trading relationship (which is what actually matters).
  • Mr. Me, ha, cheers. Maybe there's hope for Sir Edric after all :D
  • FoxyFoxy Posts: 51,345
    edited February 2019

    Well, considering that Brexit is about national self image and mythology, to both sides interpretation of past events is quite critical. Brexiteers often invoke the spirit of the blitz as personified in Churchill, it is perhaps worth crititiqing that narrow and hagiographic interpretation.

    Was Churchill hero or villian? it all depends on the time period in question. Don't forget that the people and armed forces of Britain who knew the real Churchill much better than us, slung him out in the 1945 Labour landslide even before the war had finished.
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