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Prof Simon Usherwood is the current Chair of UACES. He has been researching Euroscepticism since the late 1990s. His work considers broad theoretical and practical questions about this phenomenon, as well as more specific work on the UK, on UK-EU relations, on the role of pressure groups and on the media profile of eurosceptics.
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This is excellent and amounts to a pitch for those in favour of continuing membership to talk like Jon Danzig. It’s a struggle, though and meets the with the psychological argument that people notice more to complain about than to eulogize. Whilst it’s nice to have 2 bathrooms, people only begin to realize how nice when they’re reduced to having 1. It would seem to follow, at least in the short to medium term, whether there really will be anything to be sold as good arising out of Brexit. It is argued here that the mere continuance of the UK as an economic entity could be sufficient and that good things can be “spun” from the notion of it being “more truly sovereign.” I think much will depend upon the extent to which the economy suffers and ordinary voters suffer with it. Over the course of the next few years we will find out.