Brexiteers in meltdown after crowds wave EU flag at Last Night of the Proms

A good chunk of the Brexit votes were protest votes. A lot more were misled, and didn't do proper fact checking. Finally, a lot of people wanted a different (often impossible, or mutually incompatible) version of Brexit.

Unfortunately, once the vote was done, it was used as an excuse by the extra rich. It let them dodge EU tax rules.

At this point, one of the best things that can happen would be to go back to the EU, hat in hand. A lot of people now realise what Europe was actually doing, Vs the lies they were told. A nice big dose of humble pie, and a more reasonable deal, will help sort a lot of issues.

Is it really such a big deal to expect nothing more than an equal footing?

Just rename London to Trantor.

At the rate we're going it literally will be Scotland, Wales, and a unified Ireland in the EU and England not even being empire, but some red cross thing 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

The irony of the EU empire building though

Europeans can't go colonising around the world anymore so they just colonise themselves

Like many Hungarians living under communism, he admits to being an initial supporter of free markets as a liberating and augmentative force in eastern Europe. But as he explains, the neoliberalism imposed on eastern Europe by the west was like "colonialism without the responsibility, maximising profits, leaving behind the poor and without any strategy or moral compass."

This is examined further by David Hall, Professor of Business at the University of Greenwich, who says the drive since the 1990s to privatise utilities, and the conditions imposed on Greece since the financial crash, are similar to nineteenth century colonisation where northern European countries used sovereign debt to control the economies of Portugal, Greece, Morocco, Egypt and the Ottoman Empire.

"The Committee of Ottoman Debt was set up," says Professor Hall, "and had control of the revenues of the Ottoman Empire. And one of the first things they did to create revenues was to create concessions for British, French and German companies in rail, water and energy. Absolutely, in historical terms it is an echo of old-style colonialism

Had enough of experts have we?

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/can-europe-make-it/is-europe-colonising-itself-review-of-europe-s-forbidden-colony/

You couldn't make this shit up.

It's so silly. The pride of the UK should be that it's so connected with the world, and not that it's an isolated island where the Brits hiss "revere the king, expell the barbarians" at outsiders. Britain was not strong because the Brits are some kind of Übermenschen, but because of its many friends and allies. Brilliant brits adding to other countries, brilliant people from other countries adding to Britain. British culture is not something that was created in isolation, it's something that has additions from all over the world, and in turn British culture has added to the world.

It was always good to see Britain connected with the world in the Proms, not Britain sitting in a bunker shivering in fear of other ideas and countries.

The Union Flag has historically always been present and waved during the proms. It's part of the pomp and circumstance of it all. To be fair so has the EU flag and many others but primarily the Union Flag because the concert is held in London, totally weird right? This was even before Brexit became a news headline.

Like so many things these days the Proms now has to be politicised. An organised group of pro EU attendees are upset that the Union Flag is being waved and an unorganised group of pro Brexitiers are just upset in general. It's laughably pathetic. Just enjoy the fucking music.

They have been using the Union Jack at the proms for many years?

Cringier still: a hexbear