brexit and british values

Since the Brexit vote, attitudes have hardened - and culture has become a battleground:

Jay Doubleyou: brexit: and choosing between an american model and a european model

Jay Doubleyou: identity today in the uk

Jay Doubleyou: Brexit: "The majority of Leave voters were middle class. Most lived in the south of England."

Jay Doubleyou: brexit and: "tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis"

Jay Doubleyou: brexit and the culture wars: part two

Jay Doubleyou: brexit and the culture wars

Jay Doubleyou: middle england: the heart of brexit britain

Jay Doubleyou: brexit: and what the british think of themselves

Jay Doubleyou: what we think about the british empire - 70 years after the partition of india

Jay Doubleyou: in britain we use our history in order to comfort us: this sort of handling of history is dangerous as well as regrettable.

Jay Doubleyou: brexit and history

This is the latest example:

Jay Doubleyou: rule britannia?

With a piece from last December:

Brexitannia: The British Identity Crisis

James Melville

13 December 2019

Brexitannia: The British Identity Crisis

Brexit has become an identity conflict in Britain. It is Danny Boyle’s London Olympics Opening Ceremony versus the Last Night of the Proms. Where do we go from here?

The Great British public have decided to give the Tories five more years of power. To “get Brexit done”, millions of voters have stuck two fingers up at a window, without realising it’s a mirror. A vote for the Conservatives and to “get Brexit done” is an enormous act of self harm based on an insecure delusion of what Britain was, what Britain is, and what Britain should be.

There is a long-held Tory voting optical delusion of Britain parading around like something out of the encore section of the Last Night of the Proms. A place called Britain that should always rule the waves. This British identity framing is how the Britain’s conductor-in-chief, Boris Johnson, likes to orchestrate it...

Brexitannia: The British Identity Crisis – Byline Times

It depends on your politics - with very different views from this week:

The treatment of migrants crossing the Channel is plain wrong and against British values | The Independent | Independent

BBC ordered to scrap mandatory TV licence fee - 'It needs to fund itself!' | UK | News | Express.co.uk

Boris Johnson’s Britain During the Pandemic and Brexit Is Becoming America in All the Worst Ways

It's about 'values':

Brexit: Can we tell students 'British values' still exist? | Tes

Brexit has revealed a divide that's here to stay (opinion) - CNN

Brexit Is a Cultural Revolution - The Atlantic

Brexit Britain is more welcoming than feared | Financial Times

The success of Brexit Britain will depend on how well it can stick to its principles ǀ View | Euronews

Boris Johnson empowered the thugs that shamed British democracy

What does healing the Brexit divide mean? - BBC News

Here's a very interesting overview from earlier this month - and with lots of helpful graphics;

The Brexit parenthesis: Three ways the pandemic is changing UK politics | European Council on Foreign Relations

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