The prime minister revealed that she understands her domestic audience but not her European one. The result was a row founded on a peculiar British trait: a feeling that we had traded an empire we ran - for one that ran usBritain’s departure from the European Union,one of the largest economic powers in the world, is a historic and needless act of political folly, and the consequences of which will shape this country and our neighbours for years to come. But now it is happening. It is thus the country’s fourth big geopolitical shift since 1945. First we withdrew from empire,begining with India in 1947. The moment was joining what was then the European Economic Community in 1973. The third was the ending of the cold war between 1989 and 1991. They changed the world in ways no one could predict and we are still living nowadays with the results. An abrupt severance from Europe without any transitional link to our nearest neighbours, with whom there are bonds of common endeavour, or could still result in chaos. This would plot at risk not only our prosperity and security but also deal a blow to the multilateral architecture that could presage a more volatile global era.
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Source: theguardian.com