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Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain
by Fintan O'Toole
Essential reading for us in the UK as we struggle to understand what it was in our society that resulted in 52% of voters in our 2016 referendum voting for something that diminishes us, makes us poorer and divides us from our nearest neighbours. Fintan O'Toole lyrically and convincingly describes the background to this rise in English nationalism. In the final chapter he presents the analogy of the sore tooth, that Brexit is the English nationalist voting to kick against the elite and the EU expecting it to heal the pain of loss of identity and a decade of austerity, only to wake up after Brexit to find the tooth is still throbbing. I expect this book also has something to say to an American readership during a Trump presidency.