‘Sovereignty’ and ‘taking back control’ seem a lot less attractive when you’re stuck at an airport or struggling with red tape, writes Zoe Williams
‘Sovereignty’ and ‘taking back control’ seem a lot less attractive when you’re stuck at an airport or struggling with red tape
hate the phrase “the architects of Brexit”, partly because I still long for an alternate world in which Brexit vanishes as a word and concept, and partly because to say it has “architects” credits it with a degree of structural soundness it doesn’t possess. Nonetheless, there is a man, Daniel Hannan, who has been hurling himself at this project of disintegration since his student days, so let’s call him one of its architects.
When a leaver gets stuck in an airport queue in Málaga for three hours, while their EU counterparts glide through and swipe all the best hire cars, they are allowed to curse the forces of bureaucracy, but if a remainer did it, we’d be remoaning again.
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