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It sounds like Little Englander means a Brit who is a Euroskeptic and has nationalistic tendencies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Englander https://en.w
by harimau777 3y ago
It sounds like Little Englander means a Brit who is a Euroskeptic and has nationalistic tendencies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Englander https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Englander
- tgv 3y agoHowever, the current Brexiteers favor a powerful Britania that rules the waves. That does not seem to rhyme with independence of colonies, which is what that wiki entry describes. It might be that the writer thought it meant something else, though.
- jcranmer 3y agoIt's an ironic appellation of the term. The Brexiteers may want to be a world-striding UK, but the UK doesn't have that clout. In leaving the EU, they left one of the entities that did have that clout (in the rare moments that the EU could find a unified voice).
- harimau777 3y agoIt sounds to me like maybe there's an older use of the term that emphasized independence from the colonies and a newer version that maps more or less to "right populist". I don't live in the UK, but it seems like this might be similar to how the new populist/Trumpist Republicans are still called "Republicans" even though they don't support a lot of things that previously were associated with Republicans (foreign intervention, state & local rights, etc.).