Many people no longer believed in it, but on December 24th, representatives of the EU and Great Britain agreed on a trade agreement – a Christmas miracle, so to speak. That was pretty close: seven days later, on New Year’s, the transition period after Brexit ended. The big word “No Deal Brexit” would then have become a reality.
With the deal, Brexit now appears to be over – more than four years after then Prime Minister David Cameron announced the referendum. Countless newspapers and news channels are likely to lose their favorite topic. We want to take this opportunity again today to review the past four years of Brexit, assess the future of Great Britain after Brexit and ask ourselves what the left can take away from all of this. After all, with Jeremy Corbyn’s movement, one of the most hopeful left-wing projects in the exit theater in recent years has collapsed.
In this series of podcasts we ask ourselves: What were and are the various interests behind Brexit? What consequences will this have in the next few years? And what left-wing perspectives are there for Brexit?
Flora talks about this with Teresa Petrik, she is on the regional executive committee of the Junge Linken Wien, writes for the MOSAIK blog and studies history and sociology in Vienna
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