Analyse du journaliste politique Nick Cohen dans The Guardian sur les leaders du Brexit et la fracture entre eux et les aspirations des votants au Brexit.
En premier lieu, la campagne a dissous le parti travailliste et les libéraux. Le débat a été tenu, tant chez les partisans du maintien dans l’Union européenne que chez les partisans du Brexit, par des leaders conservateurs ou de l’extrême-droite :
«The referendum campaign showed the only arguments that matter now in England are on the right. With the Labour leadership absent without leave and the Liberal Democrats and Greens struggling to be heard, the debate was between David Cameron and George Osborne, defending the status quo, and the radical right, demanding its destruction. Johnson and Gove won a dizzying victory with the potential to change every aspect of national life, from workers’ rights to environmental protection.»
Nick Cohen relève ensuite l’absence de programme du camp du Brexit pour la suite ou le gouffre entre les leaders et les votants du Brexit :
«The Leave campaign has no plan. And that is not just because there was a shamefully under-explored division between the bulk of Brexit voters who wanted the strong welfare state and solid communities of their youth and the leaders of the campaign who wanted Britain to become an offshore tax haven. Vote Leave did not know how to resolve difficulties with Scotland, Ireland, the refugee camp at Calais, and a thousand other problems, and did not want to know either.»
Enfin, Nick Cohen met en évidence les mensonges, déjà avérés, et les reniements sitôt les résultats connus des leaders du Brexit. Pour le journaliste, les vraies divisions existant aujourd’hui en Grande-Bretagne sont celles existants entre les leaders du Brexit et les votants qu’ils ont trompés :
«The real division in Britain is not between London and the north, Scotland and Wales or the old and young, but between Johnson, Gove and Farage and the voters they defrauded. What tale will serve them now? On Thursday, they won by promising cuts in immigration. On Friday, Johnson and the Eurosceptic ideologue Dan Hannan said that in all probability the number of foreigners coming here won’t fall. On Thursday, they promised the economy would boom. By Friday, the pound was at a 30-year low and Daily Mail readers holidaying abroad were learning not to believe what they read in the papers. On Thursday, they promised £350m extra a week for the NHS. On Friday, it turns out there are “no guarantees”.»
Reste à leur trouver une vraie opposition :
«If we could only find a halfway competent opposition, the very populist forces they have exploited and misled so grievously would turn on them. The fear in their eyes shows that they know it.»
A noter qu’en mars, Nick Cohen écrivait déjà, à propos de Boris Johnson leader du Brexit : «Boris Johnson. Menteur, escroc – et premier ministre ?»
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