Re: notes from Brexania in limbo...

2019-01-28 Thread André Rebentisch
Thank you Heiko for opening this discussion. Three anecdotal observations: 1. We had a referendum whether to keep Tegel Airport open. Citizens of Berlin got a letter from the government urging them to vote against. I think this should not happen as a matter of principle and is an abuse of

Re: notes from Brexania in limbo...

2019-01-28 Thread David Garcia
Patrice, is completely right.. One of the amendments to May’s “deal" (sadly it will not succeed-it ay no longer be in play) is one to be put by Stella Creasy which would mandate more time by suspending article 50 not simply to delay the innevitable but of a final vote but a vote supported by

Re: notes from Brexania in limbo...

2019-01-28 Thread Heiko Recktenwald
Am 18/01/19 um 12:08 schrieb David Garcia: > > Finaly its a pity all these thinkers I am referencing are men.. How > much of these neo-nationalist pathologies are man made…? There is no difference. I have a brother in London with a small freehold house and family and the mother of the best

Re: notes from Brexania in limbo...

2019-01-28 Thread Heiko Recktenwald
Dear all, Am 28/01/19 um 07:15 schrieb Patrice Riemens: << True democracy is direct democracy, difficult to handle as it is. Representative democracy, unless representatives are kept at a short leash by their constituents - never mind how representative a first pass the post system is - is a

Re: notes from Brexania in limbo...

2019-01-27 Thread Patrice Riemens
On 2019-01-28 03:39, Heiko Recktenwald wrote: Am 18/01/19 um 16:48 schrieb James Wallbank: Thanks for this summary David, I'd suggest that it's broadly accurate. Some of you may have noticed that Brexit has pretty much incinerated my social media presence (which used to focus on the impacts

Re: notes from Brexania in limbo...

2019-01-27 Thread Heiko Recktenwald
Am 18/01/19 um 16:48 schrieb James Wallbank: > > Thanks for this summary David, I'd suggest that it's broadly accurate. > > Some of you may have noticed that Brexit has pretty much incinerated > my social media presence (which used to focus on the impacts of > digital engagement and transformation

Re: notes from Brexania in limbo...

2019-01-18 Thread Brian Holmes
On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 5:08 AM David Garcia wrote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ksdrYYUY2w That's a totally engaging lecture, I recommend it to anyone. He's right that a thousand soundbites about Brexit have told us nothing. One's life, identity, political community and institutional system

Re: notes from Brexania in limbo...

2019-01-18 Thread James Wallbank
Thanks for this summary David, I'd suggest that it's broadly accurate. Some of you may have noticed that Brexit has pretty much incinerated my social media presence (which used to focus on the impacts of digital engagement and transformation on the arts, culture, and locality,(plus a

Re: notes from Brexania in limbo...

2019-01-18 Thread David Garcia
Thanks Keith, yes I am an an enthusiastic follower of Fintan O’tool’s writing and lectures. Its instructive that in both the cases we have mentioned from Ireland and India both in different ways victims of English post-collonial delusion. The fact that Ireland barely featured in the refferndum

Re: notes from Brexania in limbo...

2019-01-18 Thread Keith Hart
> > >...a brilliant and utterly coruscating essay published in the NY Times by > Pankaj Mishra a writer and polemicist from India who situates the crisis in > English post-colonial delusion < > > Thanks, David. You are right that Brexit is the UK's post-imperial > hangover come home to roost. Have

Re: notes from Brexania in limbo...

2019-01-18 Thread David Garcia
Thanks Keith for fleshing out the wider political context for our “little local difficulty” that sprang from Cameron’s reckless gamble that had everything to do with the Tory party and resulted in a deep national psychosis. Sorry if this sounds like histrionics but its how it feels. I want

Re: notes from Brexania in limbo...

2019-01-17 Thread Keith Hart
On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 5:29 PM David Garcia < d.gar...@new-tactical-research.co.uk> wrote: > I read nearly everything written and watch the parliamentary debates > and the only > consistent message that emerges is that "no one knows anything”. So this > is what I > think I know becoming less

notes from Brexania in limbo...

2019-01-17 Thread David Garcia
My friend Eric Kluitenberg asked for my local view of the current situation in Brexania. It gave me the chance to pull some threads together. Some caveats this is a view from the sidelines. The journalists are all suffering from as much confusion and exhaustion..as the rest of the population.