Inside Out | Who is the real April’s Fool, 1,000 fateful days after Britain’s vote to divorce its destiny from the European Union?
- Why has there not been momentum through all this chaos for a new party (or parties) to coalesce around the centre?
- What do these terrible three years say about how democracies work?
For reasons very hard to explain, the world has become a very strange place. April Fool’s Day has become every day of the year.
Perhaps against my better judgment, April Fool’s Day allows me to open afresh the door into the catastrophically distorted world of Britain’s broken politics.
As a “Citizen of Nowhere”, a safe but unhappy distance from each day’s self-destructive twist, I would like to mull where the UK goes from here, and how some form of political sanity might eventually be restored.
Like Richard Ashworth, the forlorn, emotional and lonely Conservative Member of the European Parliament in Strasburg last week, I would like to offer Brexit up as a cautionary tale, not just for Europe, but for all aspiring democracies worldwide: “We are the generation who have lived through the longest period of peace as well as the greatest level of prosperity ever. Never take it for granted. Value it. Fight for it. Defend it every day.”