medium | In her speech to the 2016 Conservative Party conference, British Prime Minister Theresa May pointedly said:
“…if
you believe you’re a citizen of the world, you’re a citizen of nowhere.
You don’t understand what the very word ‘citizenship’ means.”
May
is currently leading her government to implement a nationally divisive
break of the United Kingdom from the European Union. Nationalist
sentiment here serves political expediency and despite the fact that a
British Prime Minister turned her back on centuries of Enlightenment values of the sort that made Britain the place where the Industrial Revolution began and appeared to embrace rhetoric that pays lip service to that most vile of all antisemitic texts, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion my focus is not on politics or Brexit.
May has gone from defending the EU as Home Secretary to bashing it as British Prime Minister
charged with delivering Brexit so where she really stands from a
principled point of view is something that I will leave for you, the
reader, to decide.
