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World News Abandoning Everything You Ever Thought, for Brexit. (Or Trump.)

by Jovan Stewart
November 22, 2019
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The property of “ Question Time,” the weekly BBC political conversation show, is easy: A panel of guests fields concerns from the audience on matters of the day, responding mainly with circular nonanswers and untreated bluster up until other panelists break in and they all speak over one another, on repeat, for an hour. The panel generally makes up three politicians and 2 miscellaneous media figures, but the real stars are often in the audience. This was certainly real of the current episode in which the world was introduced to Turtleneck Guy.

Turtleneck Man was a youngish audience member whose lantern jaw and realtor’s haircut were matched by a charcoal turtleneck and among the most remarkable “Concern Time” questions in a while. He started with a defense of Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his Brexit settlements, despite the truth that they had actually not yet fixed problems like how a Northern Ireland that wasn’t part of the European Union could keep an open border with a Republic of Ireland that was. And after that, with a nonchalance that suggested he had actually struck upon a service up until now evasive to everyone else, Turtleneck Guy used the following: “Why doesn’t it, you understand, this is going to sound insane, however Ireland being described as Ireland– the island of Ireland– why do not we attempt and just get that as an island again. And after that we can bring on with our own thing.”

Video of this moment went viral for a number of factors, some particular to the British Isles, others equally pertinent to the state of politics in America. The eagle-eyed audience will note that, while expressing vague warm desires for Ireland, this guy doesn’t appear to understand, either politically or geographically, what it in fact is This complacency has shades of Haines, the English boarder in James Joyce’s “Ulysses,” who admits to an Irishman that “we feel in England that we have treated you rather unfairly. It appears history is to blame.” A certain kind of Brit isn’t extremely interested in what that “history” really includes; what matters is to get past it. In this case, that means getting on with Brexit, even if it ruins the extremely union to which Brexit is supposed to be a benefit. Thus does this man deliver his invocation of a united Ireland– a foundation of Irish, and British, politics for the previous hundred years, the essence of bloody conflict during his own youth– as if he has, just that 2nd, birthed the notion into the world himself.

There is a temptation to focus on Turtleneck Man as a person: his tilted head, his wry smile, his chirpy obliviousness to the loud booing that covers his final sentiments. Here is the platonic ideal of pleasant entitlement, the holotype of every person who has actually ever raised a hand in class to proffer “more of a remark than a question.” But it’s more apt to concern him as a sign of a deeper trend within both British and American conservatism.

For the UK, it’s the pursuit of an ambiguous thing called Brexit that has imitated a great void, drawing every other idea from its advocates’ heads, triggering a creaking, data-allergic lean far from every worth they once declared to cherish. What is most amazing about Turtleneck Guy’s mindset toward Northern Ireland is that it is no longer questionable. It’s difficult to think about a more abiding value of the Conservative Party than protecting the union of Britain and Northern Ireland– its complete name is literally the Conservative and Unionist Party– and yet in June, one survey reported that 59 percent of party members would gladly lose Northern Ireland if it implied securing Brexit, while 63 percent would bid farewell to Scotland. This represents less a progressing pragmatism and more a complete dereliction of establishing principles. All in pursuit of a Brexit that the party’s leaders campaigned versus in 2016.

Turtleneck Male is, nevertheless, less an item of location than of time. In 2019, his mindset grows on both sides of the Atlantic. The American conservative facility at first balked at Donald Trump, too, prior to creeping to his defense– rejecting, along the method, every moral precept held within their movement. Now we see Washington hawks asking if it’s really so horrible if a couple of ISIS sympathizers escape captivity and recreant evangelists arguing that it’s of no concern whether Trump has actually paid to conceal affairs with adult-film stars.

As much as we Irish recreationally hate on Britain, scratch some covert part of our psyche and you may discover a grudging, silent sense that the British were, if absolutely nothing else, outwardly constant and sluggish to lose face. Likewise, the workplace of the president, for all its foreign adventures and repressive actions, still seemed to hold some nugget of Sorkinesque self-respect or ethical traction, even if simply for show. Now, in Washington as in Westminster, all such pretense has actually been abandoned. It’s taken for approved that the ethical and philosophical rubrics of conservatism can be shed in pursuit of the basest immediate objectives.

Sadly, not all instant goals are developed equal. Brexit needs unbraiding a centuries-deep history of entanglements, triggering major disturbance to the nation as an entire and Northern Ireland in particular. Statesmen of a more sober age might prompt the general public to think about these risks to the typical order. The British government prefers to firmly insist that there would be absolutely nothing complicated about Brexit if just the E.U. and Ireland would get out of the method. Like a young child battling with item permanence, the U.K. acts as if other nations exist just when it selects to take a look at them. Its diplomacy is gripped by the fatal colonial deception that when the people of other countries set their heads each night, it is the idea of England’s joy that sends them happily to sleep.

All of which means that for numerous, Turtleneck Guy is something more specific still: a dictionary-perfect case of “tansplaining,” a neologism the Twitter user @bigmonsterlove utilized to explain the phenomenon in which Irish people suffer inefficient lessons in their own history from British people. Tansplainers often suggest solutions to persistent “Irish problems” with no awareness that the British were not just present for those issues’ institution but mainly culpable for them. The “tan” in “tansplaining” originates from “black and tans,” the British paramilitary force formed to suppress Irish self-reliance in the 1920 s; a century later, it’s a term every Irish person understands, but it is most likely to draw blank stares from our British cousins, a few of whom seem incapable of remembering a single thing that occurred before the Brexit referendum of 2016.

It is not reasonable, or perhaps desirable, to demand that everyone ends up being a diligent historian. Joyce himself had an uneasy sense of the past: “History,” his “Ulysses” surrogate Stephen Dedalus grumbled, “is a problem from which I am trying to awake.” To arise from the shadow of the past is an admirable concept, however you question if the British, turtlenecks or no, must attempt to remember their headaches a little more clearly.

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