{"id":2389,"date":"2017-12-15T16:28:32","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T14:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/conservatives-paris.org\/cgi-bin\/weblog_basic\/index.php?p=2389"},"modified":"2017-12-15T16:33:19","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T14:33:19","slug":"identity-politics-brexit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conservatives-paris.org\/blog\/?p=2389","title":{"rendered":"Identity Politics & Brexit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Professor Matthew Goodwin<\/strong>, Visiting Senior Fellow, Europe Programme, at Chatham House writes \u00ab\u00a0In 2018, Europe’s Populist Challenges Will Continue<\/a>\u00ab\u00a0, and that despite the ?Macron moment?, traditional politics remains under pressure across the continent:<\/p>\n

A question of identity<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00ab\u00a0Central to each of these [elections across Europe], and to Europe?s agenda overall, is identity politics. As we showed in another 2017 Chatham House briefing on the ‘tribes’ of Europe, many voters remain instinctively sceptical about how the EU is managing not only immigration and the refugee crisis but also European integration more generally. Indeed, while there is cautious optimism about economic growth and the eurozone, in the latest Eurobarometer survey that tracks public opinion across the continent most voters say that immigration and terrorism are key priorities.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u00ab\u00a0If the EU is to really erode the appeal of populist parties then it will need to resolve this underlying angst over refugees, borders and security.\u00a0\u00bb\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Brexit dimension<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00ab\u00a0Such issues also run through the ongoing Brexit negotiations. Nearly 18 months after the referendum, there is little evidence that Brits are changing their minds. Though they have become more pessimistic about the economic effects of Brexit, and they are more dissatisfied with the Conservative government?s handling of the negotiations, they remain deeply polarized.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u00ab\u00a0In the latest poll, 44 per cent of voters feel that the decision was right, 45 per cent feel it was wrong and 11 per cent are unsure. Despite minor fluctuations, few of which extend beyond the 3-point margin of error, these numbers have remained remarkably static since the vote (just 15 per cent want to overturn Brexit entirely).\u00a0\u00bb<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u00ab\u00a0While major shifts in public opinion are unlikely, the recent government defeat on an amendment to the EU Withdrawal Bill has given MPs a legal guarantee of a vote on the final Brexit deal struck with the EU. Though rebels are divided about what they want, this will inject even more volatility into an already unstable process, perhaps uniting the anti-Brexiteers and paving the way for a showdown of greater significance.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Professor Matthew Goodwin, Visiting Senior Fellow, Europe Programme, at Chatham House writes \u00ab\u00a0In 2018, Europe’s Populist Challenges Will Continue\u00ab\u00a0, and that despite the ?Macron moment?, traditional politics remains under pressure across the continent: A question of identity \u00ab\u00a0Central to each of these [elections across Europe], and to Europe?s agenda overall, is identity politics. As we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[323,365,1],"tags":[164,328,171,183],"class_list":["post-2389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brexit-chairmans-blog","category-identity-politics-brexit","category-welcome","tag-ajouter-un-mot-clef","tag-brexit-negotiations","tag-conservative-party","tag-eu-referendum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conservatives-paris.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conservatives-paris.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conservatives-paris.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conservatives-paris.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conservatives-paris.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/conservatives-paris.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2390,"href":"https:\/\/conservatives-paris.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389\/revisions\/2390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conservatives-paris.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conservatives-paris.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conservatives-paris.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}