| Comment | well, to give one example, it's no coincidence the Brexit campaign appealed to things like 'the Blitz spirit' and portrayed it as being at war with the Germans - it gained the overwhelming support of the boomer generation, who grew up in the shadow of a victory in Europe they never got to participate in, and who adopted latent xenophobia towards our neighbours over cooperation
you can see the frustration that they never got 'their' war |
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