Are Brexit and Trump the same thing?

Episode 90

Professor Lord Blunkett

What do Donald Trump and BREXIT have in common?

Conversations That Matter features Professor Lord David Blunkett who says the Donald Trump and BREXIT campaigns are filled with mis-information that is playing on the breakdown of voter trust in traditional politics. Blunkett says, “the world should be mindful of how the current mood can lead voters to consider wacky proposals and destabilizing opt-out mechanisms.”

He points to Trump’s “crazy wall between Mexico and the U.S. to keep out illegal immigrants” and the British Out-Campaign’s comparison of the EU to a Hitler-like “European State” as examples.

Blunkett was originally opposed to the UK joining the EU but says he has come to realize it is a, “marriage of economic, social and international survival.  The EU is an economic and political partnership involving 28 European countries.” He goes on to say, “Britain’s exodus from the Union would be catastrophic. It would erode Britain’s substantial role in helping Europe deal with Islamic State terrorism, organized crime and mass migration.”

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