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Brexit chaos stirs bafflement in UK ex-colonies (straitstimes.com)
2 points by m3nu on April 4, 2019 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


Living in Asia, I tend to see news from an Asian perspective. So this piece of news from Singapore was interesting. Key quote:

> In India, Mr Sreeram Chaulia, dean of the Jindal School of International Affairs, said many regard Brexit as the latest chapter in what has been a "sharp decline in the place Britain commands as a great power".

> "They are not a gold standard to look up to," he said. "We get a feeling of a sinking ship and everybody wants to leave a sinking ship." India's economy is set to overtake the UK's later this year.


If you read some history you realize that British exit from India, Egypt and Suez Canal, Palestine, Indonesia etc. had been very similiarly chaotic, unprepared and irresponsible.

So this is trurly the last act for British rulling class. One where tragedy becomes comedy.




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