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A French elegy for the UK

Referenda are a populist gimmick drafted to unite as many people as possible on a single issue. They work when leaders are popular and voters vote for the messenger.

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Nigel Farage: victorious. Press Association Images/Matt Dunham. All rights reserved.

Why did Little England decide to leave the European Union, unlike Scotland or Northern Ireland? Why did you decide to part from us? I can understand these slogans against immigration, bad government by remote bureaucrats etc. But they are far from new and are shared in all other Europeans countries and by many others throughout the world.

Your politicians, bureaucrats and business elite are no better, or worse than ours. They are as corrupt, inefficient, arrogant and remote from normal people as ours, while the gap between rich and poor is probably widening on your side of the Channel even faster than on ours.