{"id":118526,"date":"2025-05-21T01:31:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T01:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/118526\/"},"modified":"2025-05-21T01:31:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T01:31:08","slug":"this-brexit-leopard-never-changes-its-spots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/118526\/","title":{"rendered":"This Brexit leopard never changes its spots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the novel The Leopard (now brilliantly reprised by Netflix) Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa captures the stillbirth of the Italian Republic as a democracy, with Don Ciccio raging at Don Fabrizio that his vote in the 1860 plebiscite against Sicily joining the new unified state was \u201cannulled\u2009.\u2009.\u2009.\u2009as if I never existed, as if I never meant a thing\u201d. The Brexit \u201creset\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/78f17b34-996d-4003-b031-4800f4e16918\" data-trackable=\"link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Report<\/a>, May 20) by the Labour government represents a similar disregard for the 17mn who voted to leave the EU and shows contempt for our political system and the cohesion of our society. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Rupert Boswall<\/strong><br \/>Staplehurst, Kent, UK<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the novel The Leopard (now brilliantly reprised by Netflix) Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa captures the stillbirth of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118527,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,748,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-118526","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-brexit","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european","13":"tag-european-union","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114543243022880572","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}