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Originally Posted by ianch99
It is quite depressing that people are content in celebrating the removal of insignia with the price paid for the removal of such trivia being the structural impoverishment of the nation and the visceral division of our society.
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How?
Insignia symbolise things. Removing them symbolises the deeper change permitting their removal. The removal of the EU name and/or flag from our driving licences, our infrastructure projects and whatever else, is a visible reminder of where the buck now always stops. Harmonised EU rules now need no longer be an excuse for government inaction. And that’s good for our democracy because we can debate these things and hold our representatives to account in elections that can actually result in an entire change of government rather than the massive deckchair shuffling process that occurs in Strasbourg.