Posted on 12/09/2017 5:00:03 AM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
In their attempts to reverse the democratic decision that is Brexit, the imaginations of many Remainers have become quite feverish. Yes, Remainers have resorted to fiction/fantasy about “Brexit lies”, the false consciousness of Brexiteers, and all the monumentally disastrous things which will happen once we leave the European Union.
Basically, some of the claims of Remainers are so outlandish that it's worth discussing some of the reasons why that may be the case.
Remainers are overwhelmingly left-wing or Lib-Dem. They're also mainly based in London, the Home Counties and British universities. (Students and professors are generously funded by the EU.) This isn't the same as saying that “the North voted for Brexit” (as it's been put) because, according to some accounts, slightly more southerners voted this way. However, that doesn't stop it from being the case that Remainers are mainly from London and the Home Counties; as well as being disproportionately made up of recent immigrants (again, who're mainly based in London).
On the whole, these Remainers don't see the dark sides of the EU. And even when they do, they're quite happy with what they see.
This means that it's not surprising that most writers and artists are Remainers too.
Particularly, it's clear that it's those infamous Brexit lies which have strongly inspired various novelists and writers. In other words, many of them decided to advance the Remain cause through their fiction or fantasy.
So let's see what various authors and novelists have had to say on the subject.
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“...They’re also mainly based in London, the Home Counties and British universities. (Students and professors are generously funded by the EU.)
As in the states, universities are prime examples of two way “evolution”.
The STEM departments move forward whilst the rest fly around in ever decreasing circles with their Obamahole as the asymptote.
I don’t know any of these guys, but I have lots of evidence to conclude that the truly great British authors: Shakespeare, Chaucer, Dickens, Austen, Chesterton, C.S. Lewis, Carroll would want nothing to do with the E.U.
Heck, even Orwell figured that England’s natural fit was with the U.S. and Australia as part of Oceania, rather than with Eurasia.
Foreign Sci-Fi, especially, projects a future controlled by some globalist UN. The US president, if he exists at all, is relegated to a subservient role. Also, Sci-Fi follows the movies in putting women in powerful male roles. (In a movie, when some hundred pound woman KO’s some huge brute with one punch, I punch out of viewing.) Another thing Sci-Fi does is show us a future where a bunch of women marines are showering with the men in one huge shower and there is no hanky-panky. It’s just, ho-hum, okay. (Yeah, right.)
Even a British author I like, Charles Stross, recently turned out a well crafted book where, two-thirds through, it turns into a major plot point that the female lead is a lesbian. By that point I had invested so much time in the story that I did finish it, but it seemed contrived and artificial and I won’t pursue the series.
Not so. It's a mistake to see Brexit in conventional party terms. Both major parties are divided on the EU. There has always been as much hostility to the EU in the left wing of the Labour party as there has in the right wing of the Conservatives (though for wholly different reasons). Corbyn, the current leader, comes from that wing, which is currently in the ascendancy. Despite his guarded statements, it's always been clear that he's temperamentally much happier with the prospect of Brexit than is Theresa May, a conservative.
It's the centrists in both parties who have always been pro-EU.
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