Nordicum-Mediterraneum (Aug 2017)
Brexit Coup d’Etat: Tracking the Overthrow of EU Rule of Law in Britain
Abstract
This analysis was researched and written days before the snap June 8 UK election which, it explains, would lock in the electoral minority of the ‘Brexit referendum’ with no public understanding of the immense historical stakes and dominant powers involved behind the political scenes. Least of all has been recognised that the hard Brexit led by the now minority-government Tories entails massive de-regulation of the most powerful transnational private financial and agri-food interests in the UK and the EU. Yet no sooner had I completed the body of the following analysis than the London terror attack struck on Saturday night June 3, with PM Theresa May pointing accusing those who sought causal understanding of the terrorist attacks as showing “far too much tolerance”. The first pages of the analysis below bring this pre-election turn of events into explanation of the slow-motion ‘Brexit coup’ that continues today before it is fully understood. While the June 8 2017 election turned against the Tory-May government as anticipated by the article, the global struggle for life-protective law still remains under more systemic threat than since 1945.
