…The Tories don’t like a country that is shaped by 13 years of their rule but prefer not to take responsibility. They have developed a keen reflex for diverting blame.
The habit was embedded in the years of strife between the referendum vote for Brexit and its enactment after Boris Johnson’s landslide election victory.
The cost of disentangling Britain from the EU was a monumental fact denied by advocates of the cause. The more it intruded on negotiations, the fiercer grew their attachment to denial.
Thus wedded to avoidance of reality and armed with a plebiscitary mandate, hardline Eurosceptics construed politics as a battle between the faithful and the unbelievers; between the will of the people and a wicked plot to subvert it…





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