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Where Are We Now?
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Where Are We Now?

Responses to the Referendum



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Dust is settling around the UK’s June 2106 Brexit vote to leave the European Union, and the world awaits a decision on if and when the country will enact Article 50 of the EU Treaty, the formal mechanism for a country to leave the union. What will an exit agreement look like? The London Review of Books asked writers, political scientists, historians, and others to reflect on the UK’s current status and the question of why the vote swung towards “leave.” getAbstract recommends this compilation of opinions to political observers looking for varied responses to the Brexit referendum results.

Take-Aways

  • Former Prime Minister David Cameron took a chance when when he called a vote on the decision whether the UK should remain in the EU. Without the UK’s current “first-past-the-post system,” he would not have been able to do that.
  • The UK Brexit vote will have stark consequences for the country’s immigrants.
  • Economic insecurity spawns xenophobia and when the EU is no longer to blame, one scapegoat will remain: migrants.

About the Authors

Since 1979, the London Review of Books has been publishing literary and intellectual essays. Today it is the most-circulated European literary magazine.


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