Slipping Loose: The UK's Long Drift away from the European Union

Martin  Westlake

doi:10.1017/9781788212021

Slipping Loose

The UK's Long Drift away from the European Union

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Martin Westlake, London School of Economics and Political Science

Publisher:: Agenda Publishing
Online publication date:: August 2023
Print publication year:: 2019
Online ISBN:: 9781788212021
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781788212021

Subjects:: Area Studies, European Studies, Politics and International Relations, European Government, Politics and Policy

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The 2016 Brexit referendum result has been portrayed as the consequence of various short-term phenomena: the financial crisis, austerity, migration and UKIP, to name a few. Overnight the political future of the UK took an unprecedented and unexpected turn against EU membership. Since then, the UK's government has been charting unknown waters in its negotiations to disentangle the United Kingdom from its membership and obligations to the European Union.

In this book, Martin Westlake argues that focus on the short-term, reflex action of the Brexit vote has overshadowed a series of longer-term trends that were inexorably leading, or pushing, the UK away from full membership of the European Union. He shows that the UK was an increasingly semi-detached member, requiring ever more elaborate and ingenious fixes with opt-outs and rebates to keep its involvement in the project. Rather than a sudden, impulsive act of rejection, Brexit should be seen as having taken place over a number of years at various levels: a gradual slipping of the ties that bound the country to the European Union.

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Slipping Loose

The UK's Long Drift away from the European Union

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Dedication
pp iv-iv

Dedication
pp v-vi

Contents
pp vii-viii

Preface
pp ix-xii

Acknowledgements
pp xiii-xiv

Introduction: How Shorter-Term “Woods” Have Blinded us to Longer-Term “Trees”
pp 1-6

1 - The Means to an End: The Looming Prospect of a Referendum
pp 7-36

2 - How to be Out Without Being Out: The Deepening Conundrum of the Eurozone
pp 37-66

3 - To Vanishing Point and Beyond: The Strategic Goal of Enlargement and Its Logical Consequences
pp 67-90

4 - Being Careful What You Wish For: The British in the European Parliament, Before and After Proportional Representation
pp 91-108

5 - The Not-So-Mysterious Case of the Disappearing Sir Humphreys
pp 109-126

6 - We Don’t Agree: The Spitzenkandidaten Procedure and British Political Parties
pp 127-156

7 - And The People? Were We Ever Really Fully In?
pp 157-190

8 - Conclusions: Chronicle of A Brexit Foretold?
pp 191-198

Afterword
pp 199-202

Bibliography
pp 203-218

Index
pp 219-224

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