L to Decrepit Alliance won. He preferred the past to the future, memories of dreams, the illusion of common sense. This includes the “little Englanders” of the province and country; citizens less educated, on which the information slip like water on feathers of pelicans at St James’s Park; nostalgic people of all ages, unable to resign themselves to evidence. This: Britain, for some time, is great in name only. It is a normal country capable of admirable companies.
Brexit is not one of them, it seems purtroppo.Brexit , first of all, tripped in a generation. Among the British over 65 years, only 40% voted to remain in the European Union (Remain). Among voters up to 34 years, the percentage rises to 62%. Among young people between 18 and 24, those in favor of Europe are 73%. The grandparents have decided the future of the grandchildren.
The recent past is the temptation of nations in difficulty. There is something reassuring in the habits, of course. But giving up the big projects in favor of small consolation is silly. Europe is – was – a big project, also for the UK. The young Englishmen, perhaps, have not been able to convince the previous generations. Certainly they have not been able to get excited about. They were not lucky: they found on their way leaders clumsy (the Conservative David Cameron); irresponsible leaders (the Labour Jeremy Corbyn, the protagonist of a scandalously inefficient campaign), leading cynics (Boris Johnson, who dreams of being Churchill and is likely to become Trump).
What happens to him? What will happen to their peers on the Continent, now at home in London? The English boys – to understand their ability to study, work and movement – will have to understand what conditions will be imposed to the Kingdom (dis) Kingdom European Union . If the damage is not yet quantifiable, uncertainty and anxiety are already certain. Young people in this country are accustomed to travel, live and work anywhere: thanks to English, academic pathways, in a commendable provision exploration. For them, everything will become more difficult, if not impossible (think of the Erasmus program).
It tells Jenny Shurville, 29, a graduate student in art history (with a thesis on twelfth-century drawings of Vercelli): “My research lead me frequently in Europe and depend on free cooperation between institutions in the EU and in the UK: it will be compromised? Not to mention the horror: the catastrophe that has dominated the campaign of Leave, of course, it is acceptable by many of my fellow countrymen. ” James Norrie, 28, a graduate student in medieval history: “I see practical policy consequences. Among the first: my pounds, when I will be working in Rome, will be written down? I’ll have to take an Irish passport? And then: my generation, especially in London, took it for granted that we live in a cosmopolitan country. Unfortunately, it does not. Discover it was a slap in the face “.
And for the Italian youth? Brexit, before being harmful, painful, like a separation in the family. Europe and London have helped them to grow; and now, inexplicably, they are divided. Everyone will ask his time, everyone will expect loyalty: it will not be easy to satisfy them both. He wrote Marta Rizi, the young Roman actress with whom I shared the stage for “Life is a journey» (Studies in Oxford, drama school in London), “Brexit is a mourning for me. It collapsed the house where we have become European and world citizens. It hurts”.
The new Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan , yesterday launched an appeal entitled concern ( “Do not Panic”). It wrote that one million European citizens living in the British capital – mostly young – “are welcome” and the metropolis’ will continue to be the city of success it is today. ” The question is: how? The mayor insists on the need to remain in Europe’s single market, while leaving the European Union, perhaps did not read carefully the art. 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, which states that ‘each Member State may withdraw from the Union, in accordance with its own constitutional requirements. ” Paragraph 4, however, provides that ‘the conditions of the withdrawal’ and ‘future relationship with the Union “will be decided by the European Council” without the participation in the discussion of the Member State which withdraws. ” In essence: the UK will have no say. Maybe it will be reduced to sign a series of bilateral agreements.
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Brexit, British newspapers on newsstands Friday
The testimony this morning, rained (of “Italians”, on social and elsewhere), Giovanni Crovetto, Milan, 32, past eight in London, working in the financial field: “I regret that many, younger than me, are likely to be denied the opportunity to experience the opening to the future that I saw ». Maurizia Carrera, Turin, 29, Motion Graphic Designer: ‘As I may exercise the profession before being forced to find a sponsor to work in the UK? Brexit limit the influx of young people. We Europeans will lose the opportunity to live in a city that has opened the minds of many. ” David Pagliaro, Trieste, 24, works for a think tank: “I am in London for four years and do not hunt me away tomorrow. But things change even at the level of feelings and emotions. I never expected that our generation had to see to increase the boundaries. ”
sad days, expect this city . London does not know the gentle decline that awaits the rural England, destined to become a poor Switzerland, flat and the sea. But the losses will be: opportunities, business, European appearances (replaced by Indian arrivals, Chinese and South Americans, presumably). A collective defeat. The most international cities in Europe forced to change course. The new destination has decided the Decrepit Alliance. And nobody knows what it is.
( He has worked in London, Stefania Chial )
June 24, 2016 (edited June 25, 2016 | 00:07)
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