barryqwalsh
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- Sep 30, 2014
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These are instructive and fascinating times for onlookers in Germany, to be filed away later under “shattered illusions”.
For seven decades, most Germans idealised Britain much as many Brexiteers idealise Britain’s past and its post-EU future: a thriving, open-yet-closed land of cricket, cream teas and fair play. But Brexit has toppled Britain from its lofty, post-war pedestal in Germany.
Britain topples from post-war pedestal in Germany
For seven decades, most Germans idealised Britain much as many Brexiteers idealise Britain’s past and its post-EU future: a thriving, open-yet-closed land of cricket, cream teas and fair play. But Brexit has toppled Britain from its lofty, post-war pedestal in Germany.
Britain topples from post-war pedestal in Germany