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- Author: Philip Cunliffe
- Publisher: Polity Press
- ISBN-10: 1509553193
- ISBN-13: 9781509553198
- Format: 14 x 21.8 x 2.3 cm, hardcover
- Language: English
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The British political system is running on empty. Its ruling elite has emerged from the long Brexit crisis apparently just as clueless and incompetent as it was before. Why is this, and what can the British people do to truly 'take control'?
Taking Control argues that neither side in the Brexit debate really understood the European Union or what was involved in reclaiming Britain's sovereignty. The EU is neither a supranational nanny state, nor an internationalist peace project. It is the means by which Europe's elites transformed their own states in order to rule the void where representative politics used to be. Leaving the EU was a necessary but not sufficient step towards closing the yawning chasm between rulers and ruled.
This book makes the democratic case for national sovereignty, arguing for a radical, forward-looking reconstitution of the British nation-state and the evolution of new forms of representative democracy. It is essential reading for anyone who wonders why British politics is so dysfunctional, and wants to do better.
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- Author: Philip Cunliffe
- Publisher: Polity Press
- ISBN-10: 1509553193
- ISBN-13: 9781509553198
- Format: 14 x 21.8 x 2.3 cm, hardcover
- Language: English English
The British political system is running on empty. Its ruling elite has emerged from the long Brexit crisis apparently just as clueless and incompetent as it was before. Why is this, and what can the British people do to truly 'take control'?
Taking Control argues that neither side in the Brexit debate really understood the European Union or what was involved in reclaiming Britain's sovereignty. The EU is neither a supranational nanny state, nor an internationalist peace project. It is the means by which Europe's elites transformed their own states in order to rule the void where representative politics used to be. Leaving the EU was a necessary but not sufficient step towards closing the yawning chasm between rulers and ruled.
This book makes the democratic case for national sovereignty, arguing for a radical, forward-looking reconstitution of the British nation-state and the evolution of new forms of representative democracy. It is essential reading for anyone who wonders why British politics is so dysfunctional, and wants to do better.
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