Jack Mintz: Don’t get why Brexit is still popular? Just look to British history fpcomment
Voting started Thursday in the EU parliamentary elections of which the race for 73 U.K. seats looks to be dominated by the surging Brexit party. That’s the party led by the immigration skeptic Nigel Farage, who previously led the U.K. Independence Party to help the “leave” side to victory in the 2016 Brexit referendum.
Perhaps the English Channel was always a natural barrier, but Black leaves no doubt that . Trade usually provided a mutually beneficial connection between the Continent and Britain, but invasions and wars going back to medieval Danes and Norman conquests bred a defensiveness into Britain’s culture. Industrial development and colonization of a vast empire eventually made it easier for Britain to focus on the wider world.
Britain resisted the EEC, dominated as it was by Germany and France. It created its own alternative, comprised of what were called “the outer seven” nations : Austria, Denmark, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland and the U.K. It was called the European Free Trade Association, but it remained confined to trade in industrial goods.
Over the next two decades, what would eventually morph into today’s EU would become a single market allowing for the freedom of movement of goods, services, capital and people. It adopted a common currency in 2001, which Britain rejected so it could maintain its own monetary policy. The EU expanded quickly to include many central and eastern European nations whose citizens could emigrate to richer countries, such as the U.K., for better jobs.
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