Perspective: Brexit has turned British politics into a zombie horror movie
Members of Parliament meet for Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday. By Ian Dunt Ian Dunt is the editor of Politics.co.uk, the author of"Brexit: What the Hell Happens Now?" and a host on the Remainiacs podcast. April 3 at 9:35 AM On Monday night, the Brexit virus contaminated its own opposition. The people who spent the last three years fighting the project to get Britain out of the European Union suddenly started behaving exactly like those they’d challenged.
Having seized the agenda, MPs used the time to hold a series of nonbinding indicative votes on what Brexit policy should be.
After they were read out, Nick Boles, the Conservative MP who authored the single market plan, stood and addressed his fellow lawmakers. “I accept I have failed,” he said. “I have failed chiefly because my party refuses to compromise. I regret therefore to announce I can no longer sit for this party.” And with that, he walked away. A voice called out after him: “Oh, Nick. Nick, don’t go, come on.” But he did not turn around.
But what’s terrifying about the closing days before the latest deadline of April 12 approaches is that such puritanism is no longer restricted to the government benches. It is now present among the opponents of Brexit, too. Labour MPs who support the People’s Vote campaign for a second referendum refused to back proposals for a softer Brexit on Monday, as did the moderate Liberal Democrats party.
The answer is identity politics. Brexit is a right-wing culture war conducted in populist terms. It is not really about the E.U. at all. It is about people's sense of who they are. It is about wanting a world of walls, separating out people and ideas and political structures from each other. But it is not just a desired outcome: By now, it is also a way of doing things. The Brexit mind-set does not compromise or accept caveats. It is politics in primary colors.
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