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Awara1984 Side Hero Username: Awara1984 Post Number: 6123 Registered: 12-2010 Posted From: 125.16.29.3 Rating: N/A |
Looking back, I think the reason why my rather subdued Brexit comment was thought to be a trifle odd was two-fold. First, most of my liberal, largely Labour-voting, Guardian-reading friends seem to live in an echo chamber. I would not be surprised that there was probably no one in their cosmopolitan circle of friends who would even envisage voting for Brexit. At best, their parents living in some small hamlet in the Shires and voting Conservative out of habit, were the nearest they came to associating with the Brexit 'other'. The situation was eerily dissimilar to that encountered by visiting academics from overseas in the summer of 2014. They had heard that there was a momentum in favour of Narendra Modi and the BJP but, alas, they had not encountered anyone who was likely to vote on the lotus symbol. Indeed, one American confessed to me that, purely on the strength of anecdotal evidence, he imagined that the Aam Aadmi Party would do spectacularly well. | ||
Awara1984 Side Hero Username: Awara1984 Post Number: 6120 Registered: 12-2010 Posted From: 125.16.29.3 Rating: N/A |
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