British politicians who favor leaving the bloc have invoked Hitler, and the U.K.’s tabloids, long skeptical of the political bloc based in Brussels, have been typically vocal: “Who will speak for England?” the Daily Mail blared “BeLeave in Britain,” said the Sun, which even reported the “Queen Backs Brexit,” a headline Britain’s Independent Press Standards Organization ruled as “ significantly misleading” given that the queen has stayed publicly neutral on the matter. The same kind of mystique has been fully on view in the often-angry, sometimes-entertaining debate over Thursday’s referendum. At bottom it is the same quality in the English character that repels the tourist and keeps out the invader.” “But,” he continued, “it plays its part in the English mystique, and the intellectuals who have tried to break it down have generally done more harm than good. “The insularity of the English, their refusal to take foreigners seriously, is a folly that has to be paid for very heavily from time to time.” “In four years on French soil they did not even acquire a liking for wine,” Orwell wrote.
Orwell tended to use “England” as his catchall for the United Kingdom.) In 1941, as the Luftwaffe rained bombs on London, the former Eric Blair reminisced in the essay “ England Your England” about the period after World War I, when the returning English working classes “ brought back a hatred of all Europeans, except the Germans, whose courage they admired.” (Great Britain consists of England, Scotland, and Wales these, together with Northern Ireland, form the United Kingdom, the sovereign state that is deciding whether or not to leave the EU on Thursday. The Isolating Life of Parenting a Potential Psychopath Lillyth Quillan
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