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THE WORLD IN 2017
Will What Happened in 2016
Repeat Itself in 2017?
“In 2017 we will Predicting the future is Leavia and make Brexit a success will
discover that impossible, but I do write a require great imagination. And luck.
the right wing football column each week in Second, whether or not she shows
populist economic The Times that tries to do just that. imagination Theresa May will continue
nationalist So I'd better not be a coward when it to have luck.
candidate will comes to politics.
govern as a right The Fink Tank discipline forces me to
wing populist The essence of my Fink Tank column add the word probably to that. It looks
economic is that I look at what happened last as though Jeremy Corbyn will still be
nationalist. ” season and tell readers that this is the in place next summer. It is possible
most likely thing to happen again. So he will be challenged again after
what happened last year in political unsuccessful local elections but he will
affairs that might be repeated? only topple if the left turns against
him.
First, Britain divided into two
countries - Leavia and Remainia. The Third, 2017 is not separated from
former consists of people who do not 2016 by some sort of magic wall. The
feel connected to the global economy things that happened this year will
or regard themselves as beneficiaries. have their consequences next year.
They are culturally conservative and The talk about Donald Trump is that
pessimistic about change. They are we took him literally but not seriously
worried that they will be losers from whereas we should have taken him
political correctness. seriously but not literally. I think this
is wrong. We should have taken him
Remainia are those who benefit from seriously and literally.
globalisation, are well educated and
feel that if there is civic equality they In 2017 we will discover that the right
can benefit fully from their education. wing populist economic nationalist
They are culturally liberal because candidate will govern as a right wing
they feel they are gaining from the populist economic nationalist. n
change.
Lord Finkelstein is Associate
These two groups are hard to Editor of The Times and
reconcile. Making a success of Brexit former Head of Policy for the
requires freer global trade, lower Conservative Party. He was
non-wage labour costs and more adviser to both Prime Minister
deregulation. Yet these are all policies John Major and Conservative
that Leavia dislikes, and they won leader William Hague
the referendum. To somehow satisfy
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