Nish Kumar Quotes

I've become a lot more politicised because of Brexit.

When it comes to something like Brexit, I am part of the liberal-media London bubble, and so, to me, voting to leave was madness. My perspective was that it was cutting off your nose to spite your face.

There's a lot in common between the Trump phenomenon and the campaign for Britain to exit the European Union, known as Brexit.

The Brexit campaign was transformed from a fringe eccentricity into a mass movement by a handful of people who decided to make it into an argument about identity.

One of the reasons why many British voters chose to leave the European Union was because they distrusted European institutions. Of all the many costs of Brexit, this was one I did not foresee: That it could wind up damaging the nation's faith in its own institutions too.

Of course Brexit means that something is wrong in Europe. But Brexit means also that something was wrong in Britain.

Brexit is not going to solve the causes of Brexit.

The argument that won the Brexit campaign is the one that said take back control... which is another way of saying we want to control our destinies again. This is an existential issue for the whole of Europe, not just for the U.K., because this sentiment is not limited to the United Kingdom.

The English, being the most practical people in the world, came up with parliamentary democracy and codified football and Cadbury's Creme Egg. And yet they voted for Brexit.

Brexit has divided the country. It has divided political parties. And it has divided families too.

Brexit is a harbinger for Trump, really.

Fuck the EU!

The EU aspired to transcend nation-states, but its fatal flaw has been its consistent failure to recognize the persistence of national differences and the importance of addressing threats on its frontiers. One consequence of this oversight has been the rise of political parties that aim to restore national autonomy, often by appealing to far-right, populist, and sometimes xenophobic sentiments

We've seen with Brexit and other things that there's a dark impulse to be petulant and frustrated with complicated solutions.

I've got to see the Brexit process through. we won the war, but we must win the peace.

The E.U. referendum was promised by a Conservative Prime Minister fearful of losing votes and of mass defections to UKIP.

The Brexit vote, the presidential elections in the U.S., a number of the other regional political movements - that's not a flash in the pan.

The Brexit and Trump phenomena are informed by similar forces and social and economic movements. I think it's been really stressful; it's been really scary.

Brexit is not only not just about left and right. Brexit is about expertise.

We will not try to out-Ukip Ukip. Labour is not going to offer false solutions, such as leaving Europe.

Genuinely, as a mum, all the sunlit uplands are when we leave the European Union.

Theresa May, a Remainer, assumed that all of the Brexit voters are racist, thinks we will use this to kick British citizens out of the country; it is despicable.

The eurosceptics, many of whom are my friends and are highly intelligent people with strong views, they are entirely respectable in every way, I just don't agree with them.

There were many reasons why people voted to leave the European Union in 2016. But my impression, having campaigned to remain in the E.U., is that above all else, people throughout this country sought to regain a feeling of control - not just of our laws, but over our lives too, and the people we elect into office.

I campaigned for the UK to stay in the European Union but the country chose a different path.