There’s a new battle for Britain: resistance to Nigel Farage | Gordon Brown

Farage wants to hijack British patriotism and drag us to a catastrophic no-deal Brexit by 31 October

All political parties were too self-absorbed to see it coming, but Nigel Farage’s 32% European election vote created a new dividing line in British politics – taking us well beyond the leave-remain split that has defined Britain since the referendum and threatens to dominate its politics for the foreseeable future.

In the three years since 2016, when we should have been debating the bigger issue that the referendum raised – what kind of Britain we want to become – our rulers have been obsessed with one very narrow question: not even our future relationship with Europe, but merely the terms of our departure from it.

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from The Guardian http://bit.ly/2Mgw6Jb