I’m often told that people “didn’t know what they voted for,” or were “stupid,” or are, “as everyone knows, racist.” Fascinatingly, as far as I know, stupid people, racist people, and even people who are lied to get equal votes in a democracy.
It is the beginning of another work week in London, and all seems quite normal in the shops and on the high streets (though you might see some pictures like this one), despite the fact that a historic vote happened just a few days before. What has become clear as the dust has settled is that no one planned for this outcome. Remain had no Plan B in place, and shockingly, Leave had no Plan A. The only thing that is clear this Monday after is that it is a very long way to Tipperary. David Cameron A visibly emotional PM who...
In 2014 I was in Glasgow for the Scottish referendum. I had spent the day before the referendum out and about in Glasgow and the “Yes” for independence vote was out in force, and as such I got a very different impression about which way the vote might go based solely on what I saw “on the ground.” The same thing happened last night. As I observed Londoners yesterday 8 out of every 10 stickers I saw people wearing were “In,” and I told more than one friend before I went to bed that I thought the Remain camp had just...
I was in the Metro. I looked down at the newspaper the man on my left was reading. It featured three characters. One, a Boris Johnson jumping up and screaming “F*#% Europe!” To his right a flustered and disturbed David Cameron wheels around, saying, “Trump?” To his right a French footman bows and says, in French, “No, it’s the Mayor of London…” Later that same day I was writing in a cafe and four tables over I heard snippets of a conversation in French in which the words “Boris” and “Brexit” featured prominently. It was the day after Boris had delivered...
