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Karma calling? Country that used divide-and-rule split over Brexit
Rudroneel Ghosh | TNN | Updated: Jan 4, 2020, 16:23 IST
TNN
NEW DELHI: With
Brexit
now certain to become reality, the
UK
as we know is sure to undergo significant transformations. On the
political front, the recent British elections exemplified a clear split
in British society. Although the pro-Brexit Conservative Party of
Boris Johnson won the day
, the anti-Brexit camp remains considerable but divided. Take the example of
Scotland
where the anti-Brexit Scottish National Party won by a landslide. This
potentially sets up another Scottish referendum. Then, while Johnson has
negotiated a new Brexit arrangement for Northern Ireland, the
effectiveness of the plan to prevent a hard border between the British
Irish territory and the Republic of Ireland is yet to be tested.
What all of this means is that psychologically the UK is no longer one entity. Brexit has
fundamentally challenged Britain’s projection
of itself in the world. UK can no longer claim
to be a champion of liberal values as Brexit was primarily driven by a
desire to keep out foreigners and take back control of immigration and
UK’s borders. Where once Great Britain saw itself as a modernising force
for the world — a perception that also underpinned British colonialism
in centuries past — today it stands a divided nation where parochial
forces have gained the upper hand.
Which
brings into question the credibility of British soft power. For the
last 200 years, English was seen as the language of progress. It was the
lingua franca of science, political theory, diplomacy and finance, and a
window to progressive ideas such as equality of justice,
democracy
and
human rights
.
But
in light of Brexit, all of that is coming apart. According to American
political scientist Joseph Nye — who coined the term soft power in the
late 1980s — a country’s cultural, ideological and institutional
attractiveness could help it shape the world. And until recently,
Britain had deployed these soft assets brilliantly. But with Brexit, all
of this risks boomeranging on the UK. For, as soon as British openness
started being seen as a liability by a considerable section of the
British population given a slowing economy and changing British
demographics, racism and nativism reared their ugly heads. Fears began
rising that the white British population would soon be overwhelmed by
people of colour and outsiders. It is these regressive forces that are
dividing Britain today and undermining its position as a cultural
powerhouse.
Perhaps it is all karma. After all, Britain
for centuries had divided people on the basis of ethnicity, religion
and sects to profit from it. It drew arbitrary lines in the sand and
sowed the seeds of generations-long communal strife. We in the
subcontinent are well aware of the deep scars that Britain’s divide-and
rule policy inflicted upon us. Today, it is the Britons’ turn to be
divided on ideological – and possibly sectarian and ethnic – grounds.
And with British openness, fairness and multiculturalism now undermined
by Brexit, the pull of the UK as a destination for talent is also likely
to fade. British politicians may think that they can manage the
situation and maintain British soft power supremacy. But that would be
arrogance — the same arrogance that saw certain British politicians
boost regressive forces by proposing Brexit for political gains.
Soft power was really the UK’s biggest
asset since it was overshadowed by the military power of the US in the
earlier half of the 20th century. And with the global axis of power
shifting from the West to the East, the decline in British soft power is
bound to hurt the UK even more. In that sense, Britain risks becoming
an old, sclerotic nation with little real influence in the world. Many
would say it serves them right.
As a Scot, we were
the first nation that England subjugated and exploited, the working
people were forced off the land during the Lowland and Highland
clearances and having an armed occupation of Scotland during the
eighteenth century to ensure that we were compliant to the English. As
for more recent years the English in the form of the Westminster
Parliament have taken all our oil revenues to pay for
deindustrialisation of the economy and then parked their nuclear weapons
just outside of Glasgow as the English shire counties did not want the
potential threat of nuclear leaks near them. No, the Scots were and
always have been second class citizens in the UK, the untouchables,
useful insomuch they do the dirty dangerous jobs the English won’t do.
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People don’t know or forget that Britain nearly made itself bankrupt to rid the world of slavey
Rubbish. Britain
only banned slavery in the Carribean. It didn't ban it in the East
India company or in Southern Africa at the time.
It only banned it in the Carribean because some British sugar traders trading from Brazil complained they were up against slave labour from the Carribean.
Who did Britain compensate after abolishing slavery in the Carribean? The slaves? No, the slave owners to the equivalent of over £100 billion in todays money. People like David Camerons ancestor got a shed load of cash.
The slaves weren't freed either, they had to work 7 years for nothing after it was abolished. Even after that they worked in abject poverty.
It only banned it in the Carribean because some British sugar traders trading from Brazil complained they were up against slave labour from the Carribean.
Who did Britain compensate after abolishing slavery in the Carribean? The slaves? No, the slave owners to the equivalent of over £100 billion in todays money. People like David Camerons ancestor got a shed load of cash.
The slaves weren't freed either, they had to work 7 years for nothing after it was abolished. Even after that they worked in abject poverty.
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