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The Brendan O'Neill Show

41: Why Britain had to leave, with Robert Tombs

The Brendan O'Neill Show

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News, Society & Culture, Government, Politics

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Robert Tombs, author of This Sovereign Isle, joins Brendan O’Neill to discuss the myth of Britain’s decline, the EU’s path to oligarchy and the necessity of Brexit.

Read the transcript: https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/02/09/the-myth-of-britains-decline/

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If Brexit has a justification above all others, it's that this gives people a chance to make the people who govern them listen, as opposed to a system which is really a system of oligarchies, which are more and more

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insulated from popular opinion and popular wishes.

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It's always been part of the European project, a feeling that democracy had proved itself too dangerous in the 1930s,

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and therefore the elite thought we must make sure that people no longer have this kind of power. It must be placed in the hands of experts, really deep politicized.

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