The Booker prize winner described a dystopian Britain. But haven’t we been living in that since Brexit? | Zoe Williams
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TLDRThe past decade of British politics has had the dreamlike quality of a novel, a dystopian fiction where facts don't matter. Yet the sad, humbling process of watching this Brexit fantasy try to impose its rules on reality is coming to an end, as the electorate and politicians finally wish this nightmare would end.
Earlier this week, some people on the radio were talking about a very British dystopia. The government had disintegrated, but everyone was carrying on pretty much as they had before. Britain was isolated on the world stage and people missed Europe like hell, but weren’t allowed to visit, let alone live there.
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