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Brexit and Star Trek
There is now a new Star Trek series that follows along from the Star Trek of my childhood. Patrick Stewart, Brent Spiner, Jeri Ryan and others came back in a new series and a second season is coming later this year. I never thought I’d see the day! At the same time, we are five years on from the Brexit vote, and I was reminded of something I wrote days after the referendum itself back in 2016. It seemed appropriate to return to it.
We are a week since the In/Out referendum in which a majority of British voters supported leaving the European Union. I had not read much of the media leading up to that date as I knew which way I was voting and why. Days before the referendum itself I had dialled into the media to see where things were. Suddenly things were not the way I expected them. I knew it was going to be close, but I always assumed that the result was in favour of the “Remain” campaign. How wrong I was!
I have lived within the privileged bubble of being born in the late 1980s with Britain’s EU membership a matter without question. It gives me the ability to travel to parts of Europe without messing about with a visa and the opportunity to live and work there, and with the increasingly interconnected continent of Europe on my doorstep. I could get a cheap flight on Friday night and back on Monday morning and be back in time for work. While I was there I was able to meet other…
