Its flagship programmes pushed “false equivalence” to an absurdity while facilitating the extremism that the balance was supposed to avoid. Now that it’s done, Boris Johnson has declared Brexit to be non grata. Brexit is a culture war in which the economy takes acceptable collateral damage. Throwing sand in the wheels of Britain’s trade with the EU will cost jobs, tax revenues and much else besides. Equally unacceptable is to point out that the legitimate grievances of the typical Leave voter will not be addressed by Brexit.

Source: The Irish Times February 02, 2020 13:07 UTC