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Originally Posted by Hugh
Professor David Andress has a new book out (Cultural Dementia), and I thought one of his lines summed up the ERG (Jacob Rees-Mogg, aka "Lord Snooty" et al), even though he wasn’t specifically talking about them.
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I think Jacob Rees-Mogg is more influenced by his father's writings including the Sovereign Individual. And to his credit, his father predicted Bitcoin 10 years before it happened.
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The book also foresaw a backlash against the footloose, cosmopolitan elites that digital technology would help create. The economy’s “losers”, as Rees-Mogg and Davidson called them, who “do not excel in problem-solving or possess globally marketable skills”, would turn to nationalism and bitter nostalgia. They would “seek to thwart the movement of capital and people across borders”.
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In August, Alastair Campbell, Blair’s former right-hand man and a prominent remainer, wrote about The Sovereign Individual at length on his blog. He called it “the most important book you have never heard of”. “After reading it,” he intriguingly claimed, “it is easy to see” why Jacob “so loves Brexit, and the chaos and disorder, and opportunities for disaster capitalism and super-elitism, that it may provide.”
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https://www.theguardian.com/books/20...s-brexit-plans
In Brexit news, Barnier is suggesting that the EU allows the UK an extension to the transition period to allow time for the trade deal to be negotiated.
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Meanwhile, amid reports of an extended transition period, Sky News understands that when Michel Barnier met ambassadors from the remaining 27 this weekend, he proposed an extension to the two-year transition to 2022.
Sky's Europe correspondent says: "None of the 27 objected. The 2022 date will now be put to the UK to see how they react."
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https://news.sky.com/story/embattled...tback-11557629