by Ramzy Baroud
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‘Peterloo for the EU’? Really?
Socialist historian KEITH FLETT is unconvinced by film maker Mike Leigh’s assertion that the Perterloo marchers would have been anti-Brexit
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The Isle of Wight’s Victorian holiday boom drew visitors from across Europe, including the founders of scientific socialism, writes KEITH FLETT
MIKE LEIGH has made an excellent film about Peterloo — but linking the sentiments of the crowd on that August day 200 years ago with views on Brexit needs to be done with care, if, that is, it can be done at all.
This is what Leigh tried to do in a recent Guardian article however. He wrote that “Brexit is the epitome of democracy under threat” — to which some might reasonably respond that this equally applies to Remainiacs who wont accept the democratic result of the EU referendum under any circumstances.
It does suggest perhaps that Leigh’s grasp of how to make a great film is rather greater than his knowledge of history and particularly how historical events might weigh on the present.
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