This election is a rerun of the referendum in terms of most of the characters. More info emerges and a possible shape to a story, could be a book. continues as blog. Based on recent events / bits of news.
Maybe start in 2003. Found this on Spectator site, now no paywall for this version. Johnson interviews Berlusconi. Suggested in Sunday Times last week this was a model for some of his thinking. So maybe there are then connections with Bannon , Trump other USA projects. The Russian aspect may not have been obvious.
So before 2016 some connection Trump /Brexit . Photos show something. What it was to be explained later.
BBC under pressure from Conservatives , both pro and anti Brexit. . Not sure how they coped. There may be something about how they reported referendum that they do not want to be well known. Strange how they treat @CaroleCadwalladr . They may not have realised the Russian angle at first but now seem reluctant to report it.
Most newspapers even more so, Mail/Sun/Telegraph/Express totally into Brexit Party / Johnson project. #TrumpAlliance now obvious. It may be a social movement not a pact, but consequence is to split target seats into trad Conservative and trad Labour, try to offer Brexit instead. Drift of Brexit as a right wing project even more obvious - Kate Hoey retires to the land of DUP.
Anti Corbyn views shared by "moderate" press - Guardian / Observer / Channel 4 . What happened to the "moderates". Include Cameron? Now shifted to Independents , outside Conservative Party. Also some to LibDem. Corbyn now more in control of Labour. During referendum the "moderates" had more influence, especially media contacts.
Leave campaign was Farage and also Gove / Johnson. Now the same people but Cummings in Downing Street. History of breaking laws, being found guilty, not well reported. Danger much greater than media supposes, as far as we can tell. So reports, probes blocked. What to think?
Meanwhile in USA it could be peak Trump. Impeachment seems likely. Some facts may come out about Brexit as part of the USA reporting. CNN on a different level to any UK telly.
Blog form continues but there might be an ending, required for book version.
To be continued.
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