Brexiteers love to present themselves as the long suffering victims of domination by an evil European empire which they have compared to the Soviet Union and Fourth Reich. Nigel Farage has expressed his puzzlement that Ireland would not prefer a benign relationship with Britain rather than subjugation by Europe. He has no idea what subjugation to Britain really felt like on the receiving end. When you are used to being the dominant imperial power, equality can feel like subjugation, but that does not make it so.

Index of Frank's Diaries