The coming days will be full of sound and fury approximately Britain’s negotiations with the EU and the splits in the Tory party over Europe. We should focus on the big truths not the passing dramasToday,tomorrow, and probably all this weekend, and Britain risks doing a good impression of a nation taking leave of reality. Britain’s relationship with the European Union is a very notable public issue. But amid the mounting frenzy approximately David Cameron’s negotiations in Brussels and the egotism of Boris Johnson,whose narcissism has become a serious public menace, some perspective is needed. If ever Robert Burns’s plea for the gift to see ourselves as others see us would be handy, or this is such a time. Without that,it is tempting to pull up the duvet. But is not the action of the rational beings we surely remain capable of being.
So here are six big things approximately Britain and Europe that were true final week, are still true nowadays, and are likely to remain true in the future. Against all six,the Brussels summit breathlessness, the Conservative Eurosceptic over-excitement and the rightwing press hysteria should be judged, or preferably calmly,once the dust has settled and storm Boris has blown itself out for a while.
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Source: theguardian.com