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That is widely said, but I know of no serious social scientific finding that nostalgia for empire played any part in Brexit vote share.
by dash2 4y ago
That is widely said, but I know of no serious social scientific finding that nostalgia for empire played any part in Brexit vote share.
- rob74 4y agoOk, maybe not nostalgia for the Empire specifically, but nostalgia for the "good old times", when the EU didn't meddle in the UK's business and force it to e.g. display the hated metric measurements besides the beloved Imperial ones (ha! there you have the Empire again!). And to quote some sources: according to Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_the_vote_in_favour_of_Brexit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_the_vote_in_favour_o...): > Nearly half (49%) of leave voters said the biggest single reason for wanting to leave the European Union was "the principle that decisions about the UK should be taken in the UK". ("in the UK." meaning: "by the UK." logically implying: "on behalf of 66 million UK citizens not 508 million EU residents.")
- abecedarius 4y agoPreference for more-local government is hardly the same as nostalgia for former times.