England I: British People and Fever Dream

england i: It was a vile act, and it seemed so unlike the England I thought I knew, according to Guelph Mercury. It was the latest unbelievable event in the unbelievable fever dream that was the Brexit campaign. She was a British MP, and she was gunned down at 41 by a madman. I felt at the time that such a senseless, brutal act, in its sheer depravity, had to be the thing that finally shocked the nation into sanity, that its very senselessness would awaken the insensate to the nightmare they were facing. The valid criticisms of the EU — and there are many — were sacrificed on an altar of tribalism, xenophobia and reactionary myopia. Jo Cox died last month, and then a week later 52 per cent of the British people rejected everything she stood for. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.