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   Kim Spence-Jones 🇬🇧😷 (kimsj@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 03-Sep-2023 18:18:02 JST Kim Spence-Jones 🇬🇧😷

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   • Emeritus Prof Christopher May

   @ChrisMayLA6 Two things can be true at the same time. 😁
   The UK’s malaise is deep-seated and has been around for a century. Membership of the EU hid its most egregious effects, but Brexit has turned it into a crisis.
   The root cause is probably British exceptionalism — we have a wildly inflated idea of both our importance and our competence. And nowhere is this more evidenced than in our political system and the incompetence of our politicians.

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     Emeritus Prof Christopher May (chrismayla6@zirk.us)'s status on Sunday, 03-Sep-2023 18:18:03 JST Emeritus Prof Christopher May

     Janan Ganesh (FT) thinks Britain is not in crisis, but rather has a malaise:

     'Britain is stagnant precisely because its doing alright-ish... things would need to get worse to get better'!

     He cites a range of (mostly middle-class) attributes of British society that remain comfortable or at least tolerable.

     For a large(ish) group of the population this is likely right... but, for a growing minority life *is* in crisis;

     The Q. is how wide crisis needs to be for radical change to gain support?

     HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴 repeated this.