Nuit Debout banner reads "They have billons, we are millions", Place de la Republique, April, 2016, Paris. Bertrand Combaldieu / Press Association. All rights reserved.A row of left-wing commentators have called for a Brexit recently, arguing that this move would profoundly reinvigorate democracy in the UK.
‘Reinvigorating’ sounds like spring, youth, detox and fun … so, who would not want to participate in ‘reinvigorating democracy’?
And yet…. the problem with the left-wing case for Brexit is that it remains utterly unclear why such democratic change is predicated on Brexit.
