Brexit Britain may not be up to much but it has become a world leader in creating identities no one needed or wanted. Until 2016, Europeans in Britain no more thought of themselves as members of a minority than their British counterparts on the continent did. The majority no more had the chance to vote in a referendum that directly affected their prospects than Europeans in Britain did. I will spare you the gags about the hypocrisy of rightwing movements, which emit gammony belches about the absurdities of identity politics while creating a nationalist identity politics of their own. As rights go, horizons narrow and the culture turns rancid, the identity politics that Brexit Britain is forcing on Europeans is becoming the politics it will force on everyone else.

Source: The Guardian October 05, 2019 17:01 UTC