Psamathe wrote: ↑11 Oct 2022, 12:48pm
I saw a report of that on TV but didn't appreciate it was part of any "Festival of Brexit". My understanding (from TV) was it was some sort of art thing (using Gov. money) that very few people had visited.
I really suggest watching some TV news that is less wholeheartedly behind the government.
Can't really see how disused oil rigs are a showcase for a forward outward looking UK after departing the EU. Maybe my daftness but I'd have expected a Gov. funded "Festival of Brexit" to show off our technology, Bio-sciences, businesses to encourage trade and investment.
The "forward outward looking UK" Brexit lost the argument in 2015, well before the vote, when the so-called "global Britain" supporters were forced out of Vote Leave by Johnson, Gove, Cummings and Gisela Stuart. With the subsequent falls of the mainstream Conservatives, Cummings and the Johnsonians, the ones now in control are the ones least likely to support our technology (which they see as dangerous replacement of low-paid work), Bio-sciences (fears of "grey goo") and international trade and investment (favouring protectionism instead, which is after all essentially why some Peelites left the Conservative Party to co-found the Liberals).
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