“It’s not the European Union, it’s Britain. The strangest most paradoxical thing about Brexit perhaps is that the last thing it’s about is the EU. It’s not even about perhaps fundamentally the relationship of Britain to the EU. It’s much more about Britains relationship to itself.” (Fintan O’Toole, 2019-01-16)
Tag: Fintan O’Toole
Brexit: Ireland and the English Question
Fool Britannia
This is such a great piece by @harikunzru (and @fotoole).
Read it if you are British; read it if you are not! https://t.co/Wnbg2U733k— Sean Condon (@spc1965) February 4, 2019
Fool Britannia by Hari Kunzru, 2019-02 Issue of The New York Review of Books, about Fintan O’Toole’s Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain.
Good Answers
to a Whining Brexiteer
Marshall Plan assistance by country. https://t.co/9C7XNpfqfm pic.twitter.com/ysCksb90nU
— Property Spotter (@PropertySpot) February 2, 2019
Daniel Kawczynski shows that Fintan O’Toole is right.
There is more:
It’s really enough now. Every single day for almost a month there’s been some anti-German snipe. Usually not based on facts. I have really had enough of this. As a German but also as a historian. The abuse of history to justify Brexit is sickening, irresponsible and dangerous. 1/ https://t.co/TGLuXg5lEB
— Prof Tanja Bueltmann (@cliodiaspora) February 2, 2019
The UK actually got the biggest share of funding from the Marshall Plan. Next was France and only then came Germany. Shame on you @DKShrewsbury for spouting such nonsense. Even the BBC website could have told you the real story. But clearly you were intent on 2/ pic.twitter.com/vn76ra57ty
— Prof Tanja Bueltmann (@cliodiaspora) February 2, 2019
whistling for the dogs … If you think others don’t see this, if you think this will just go unnoticed, think again. UK politicians are burning bridges that took decades to build with just one tweet. It’s a tragedy. 3/3
— Prof Tanja Bueltmann (@cliodiaspora) February 2, 2019
And:
This is a false statement by a UK MP, and he knows it is false, but he does not care.
UK benefited significantly from Marshall Plan.
That a MP can assert this falsehood, and for it to be RTd so heavily, tells of what is wrong with UK politics.
This is dishonesty at UK's core. https://t.co/OdykYz8p31
— David Allen Green (@davidallengreen) February 3, 2019
A Very British Civil War
Brexit brings about a very British civil war https://t.co/iDpbkrSyoR via @IrishTimesOpEd
— Fintan O'Toole (@fotoole) January 30, 2019
Protecting Ireland
"Our gallant allies in Europe"… https://t.co/a4nFuYtaaG
— Fintan O'Toole (@fotoole) January 30, 2019
The flag is from Ivory Coast 🙂
Will Brexit Break up the UK?
🔉 Episode 17 of our podcast is out! @lukecooper100 and @zoesqwilliams are speaking to @fotoole about English nationalism, the situation in Northern Ireland and his explosive new book: "Heroic Failure; Brexit and the Politics Of Pain."
Listen here👇 https://t.co/BKl8ALu6wF
— Another Europe (@Another_Europe) January 22, 2019
Brexit never was about Europe
It was never about Europe. Brexit is Britain’s reckoning with itself | Fintan O’Toole https://t.co/5YuO3wtkZx
— Fintan O'Toole (@fotoole) January 18, 2019
Heroic Failure
On 2019-03-09 I saw this tweet:
Regardless of his politics, this rant from George Galloway says so much about Brexit. Nostalgia for lost youth and sentimentalism about the past mixed with nationalistic hubris.
"I want Britain to be what it was in the Swinging 60s – when we were something!" pic.twitter.com/ssJJOhuvqh
— Property Spotter (@PropertySpot) March 9, 2019
I posted this on 2018-12-30: About Fintan O’Toole’s book:
If you havent read ‘Heroic Failure’ yet, my review may help you: https://t.co/U1mBcPwClE
— Lila Haines (@LilaEilis) December 17, 2018
Trial Runs for Fashism
Fintan O’Toole: Trial runs for fascism are in full flow
Babies in cages were no ‘mistake’ by Trump but test-marketing for barbarism
Tue, Jun 26, 2018, 05:00
Fintan O’Toole