I know.... I know...... It's a blog by Alistair Campbell and so before all you ardent Brexiters eyes glaze over, at least read this post before you dismiss it without a second thought. How this could have been in the public domain for more than twenty years and not been known about is, quite frankly, stunning.
Yes, it is an Alistair Campbell blog, But this is one hell of a blog and it is worth reading if only because it not only makes sense of Brexit, but it makes sense of WHY we had Brexit, who will profit from it, how they will profit from it, the ideological motivation behind it and the long term strategy it is headed towards.
Everything that has happened was foreseeable, because it was all written down in the 1990's, with staggering levels of accuracy which simply can't be written off as mere chance. The authors of this work knew what they were proposing and they knew where they were going. This wasn't a pie-in-the-sky dream, this was a manifesto.
I now have a copy of this book on order and have already recommended it to a number of politics and journalism students among Rejoin's (growing) numbers. I've already notified the Volt Party * who will be certain to be interested. This is going to blow heads off as it circulates.
We have been so blind to many things. If only this had been available to us in 2016.... well, actually it was, but it was so obscure and unheard of that it seems it completely ducked under the radar. No more.
It's too late to stop Brexit, but the contents of this book will have to be fully understood and combated if, in the long term, we are to overturn it.
* The Volt Party is a pan-European political party, that will fight elections where possible, but is first and foremost intended as a political pressure group. Volt UK is slowly getting going. Not wealthy or organised enough yet to be effective but membership is growing and it is becoming organised.
It is the first party of its kind, not restricted to one country, or indeed, to the EU. It has a Europe wide vision.
Europeans will not allow our vision of what our continent can be to be destroyed by disaster capitalists and hard-right fascists. We've been slow off the mark, and underestimated our opponents. Not any more we won't.