Comparisons have been made between the popular uprisings on both sides of the Atlantic — some of them lazy. Boris Johnson, the UK foreign secretary and leading Leave campaigner, and Mr Trump may have shaken up their respective establishments, but blond hair is one of the few things they have in common. Brexit and Trumpism are not one and the same.
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Given that 80% of the articles I have read in the UK (and about 95% from the USA) ‘explaining’ Brexit are hilarious tosh, it is hardly surprising the meejah are utterly clueless on that score as well.
I actually think that the two phenomena do have quite a lot of overlap. But since I can’t read the original article without being told to subscribe to the FT, I am unable to learn what his argument is to the contrary.
As for the Media do talk tosh about these two things, it seems to me that they talk the same kind of tosh about both.
For “do talk” read “talking”. Sorry.
That both are popular uprisings is common ground enough. Details cannot be expected to be similar.
Otherwise I’m in the same position as Brian with regard to the FT.
People who support Trump probably have as many different reasons for doing so as people who voted for brexit.
Of course they are different though, trumpism is about putting your guy in charge of a thing, brexit was about leaving a thing.
Trump
Boris
Milo
Geert Wilders
Vanilla Ice
I refuse to accept that it is a coincidence.
“Of course they are different though, trumpism is about putting your guy in charge of a thing, brexit was about leaving a thing.”
There is no “of course” about it. Brexit was also about putting Our Guys in charge of “a thing”, namely us. The common thread is control. Brexit was not about abandoning control, it was about putting it in different hands, namely our own. Like I say: big similarity.