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They Do What They Want, But Do They Also Know What They Want?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

Christoph Möllers*
Affiliation:
Humboldt University Berlin, Law Faculty [[email protected]]

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Eurosceptics of all kind feel vindicated by the Brexit. However, their reasons do not only differ, they are actually inconsistent: For leftists like the Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras the vote expresses the failure of a socially unjust political order devoted to austerity and market liberalism. Considering the anti-regulatory bias of the Leave campaign and the strict austerity policy of the newly re-elected conservative majority, this seems like a rather paternalistic interpretation. Many on the left-wingers refuse to accept that there are democratic majorities for inequality. They prefer to treat the voters as the victims of a wrong consciousness instilled by politics or the media.

Type
Brexit Special Supplement
Copyright
Copyright © 2016 by German Law Journal, Inc. 

References

1 Mary Beard on Twitter June 25, 2016, 0:41 AM), https://twitter.com/wmarybeard/status/746609323380449280.Google Scholar