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Anxieties put onto a royal engagement

Hearing the BBC coverage of the engagement of Prince Harry to Meghan Markle, a friend tweeted in frustration that the Brexit debate would look rather different if the BBC put as much effort into describing the details of our relationship with the EU as they did the details of the relationship between the prince and his fiancée. He has a point.

St George’s Chapel: venue for the wedding of Harry and Meghan

Cynics would note that this announcement eclipsed the news that the government had finally published the Brexit impact reports — but in a form so redacted as to deserve fierce criticism, and was attempting to restrict amendments to the Budget, with the implication that this is an attempt to rig parliament to avoid defeat.

I think the cynics are wrong. With the way the Brexit saga is unraveling, it’s hard to imagine any day on which the announcement of a royal engagement would not have seemed like an attempt to distract attention from a piece of bad news.

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Author Mark ArgentPosted on 30th November 20172nd December 2017Categories Brexit, Politics, PsychoanalysisTags basic assumptions, Bion, Brexit, Royal engagementLeave a comment on Anxieties put onto a royal engagement
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