Why Brexit happened -- and what to do next | Alexander Betts

We are embarrassingly unaware of how divided our societies are, and Brexit grew out of a deep, unexamined divide between those that fear globalization and those that embrace it, says social...

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I am British.(Laughter)(Applause)Never before has the phrase "I am British" elicited so much pity.(Laughter)I come from an island where many of us like to believethere's been a lot of continuity over the last thousand years.We tend to have historically imposed change on othersbut done much less of it ourselves.So it came as an immense shock to mewhen I woke up on the morning of June 24to discover that my country had voted to leave the European Union,my Prime Minister had resigned,and Scotland was considering a referendumthat could bring to an end the very existence of the United Kingdom.So that was an immense shock for me,and it was an immense shock for many people,but it was also something that, over the following several days,created a comple...