The remembrance generation has won – Those elders who still feel the pride of being alone against all
sabato 25 giugno 2016 English 1 commento
Il Giornale, June 25, 2016
When a foggy day is looming the British will say: "Look, the continent is isolated”. Now they might easily say: “Look how Europe feels lonely”. Yes, the British sometimes imagine themselves ike an Alec Guinness in “The Bridge on the River Kwai”: proud, haughty, resolute until the end, living in a world where form is substance.
But the young British, statiscs say, with their vote agains Brexit show a different kind of English man. They are citizens of the world, less laden with history and national culture, the multicultural general european kind. It's the more than forty years old, very much Brit, who determined the resuslts. The race for them turned to be a matter of pride, of identity, and even of freedom. Insularity isolates England geographically, while the White Cliffs of Dover watch over it, but the national identity makes this island an indispensable part for European identity, and now Europe has lost it. Without England, Europe lacks a piece of itself, and the continent seems now to be affected by a pathological melancholy combined with panic. It is as if the Hundred Years' War were still ongoing, or as if the Tudor schism from the Church still fired its falmes, while England coludn'tstop fueling the determination to destroy any dependence on the continent, and Margaret Thatcher’s wariness still watched out, continuing to reject the euro and the Schengen agreement.
The victory of the “No to Europe” camp is neither a matter of class, nor of interest: rather, it is a feeling, a memory, and a life choice. The new generation has lost the battle, although the Western world every day celebrates young people as supreme leaders. According to the surveys, those aged 18 to 24 voted "remain" in Europe, and 56 per cent between 25 and 49 years was also in favor. But the old guard took the upper hand: 56 per cent of the British from 50 to 64 years choose to leave Europe, and 51 percent of the over 65 voters did likewise.
The directions of the Unions, even in the Midlands and in the old industrial districts, had no leverage among them. The vote of the anti-European supporters accounts for the current economic hardships, as much as the nostalgia for the unique and bold England, the one which "stands alone" against Hitler after the French surrendered during the Second World War. They miss the strength of its imperial and military pride, and cheer for its unbearable liver pie, the left-hand driving, the beers at the pub, along with the old spitfire aircrafts and Virginia Woolf. British elders consider the EU alien and persecutory, unlike the cyber, multimedia, multiracial, and multilingual members of the new generation, who are ready to mingle and to share the problems of other people in identity crisis shared festival. The former voted above all to resume a memoryof the Churchillian past, more than against immigration and in favor of Farage’s right. They are not afraid of “tears, sweat, and blood", but they hate being ruled by a big burocratic unknown body with 14-15 thousand officers, and by a European Commission with 25 thousand employees earning salaries between 2.3 and 16 thousand euros.
How can the British sing as an hymn of Europe Beethoven's "Ode to Joy” in german? How can they be subjected to the tons of small rules and laws daily and persecutory issued by the EU? Italy keeps relishing for the “Manifesto of Ventotene” and its quotations. It is doubtful that somebody in England has ever read the substantially socialistmanifesto, which describes the nation state as the original sin – reeking of "motherland and soil” – to promises to overcome "inequalities and privileges". England is not on this wavelength, and simply heavily felt the burden of the impossible bureaucracy tied to the European institutions, laws, and agreements. England has often been reluctant to follow through with the attempts to merge with the other EU members. Hence, the detachment of the country from continental Europe. The moral continuous substantial disapproval of the state founder of democracy and capitalism has probably been crucial to the several failures of the EU. The second chapter of the story has just begun, and the disapproval now is not an understatement.
lunedì 27 giugno 2016 03:00:59
Great insight analysis, Fiamma !For most of Israelis Britex promises the beginnibg of falling apart of the widest Palestinian Lobby - European Caliphate , an artificial formation aimed at fighting American dominationMight harm newly associated former Soviet Block countries Do your best abd leave to God the rest - Europe !Peter Rotberg