Now, more than ever, artists need to use their ‘classless’ positions to engage and unite disenfranchised people through creativity, says Bev Adams.
The result of the EU referendum to Brexit, the subsequent splintering of our two main political parties and a resurgent support for the socialist politics of Jeremy Corbyn present us, the proletariat, with an unprecedented opportunity. Before I continue, I must nail my colours to the mast. I am an unashamed European and I believe our nation’s decision to leave the EU is flawed. However, rather than looking back and joining the blame game, I choose to look forward and concern myself, not with the ramifications of extricating ourselves from the EU (which I’d rather we didn’t have to do) but with suggestions as to how we fix the divides in British society which the polarising EU referendum laid bare. The referendum spotlighted rifts between the generations as well as between the urban cognoscenti and those that live on the “edgelands” of our major urban centres.
The leave campaign’s slogan was to take our country back and I agree it is time to do so. However, I have no desire to take our country back from the Europe that helps us economically, socially and environmentally but from the Neo-Liberals who continue to bleed us dry... Keep reading on Bev Adams - Faceless Arts
The result of the EU referendum to Brexit, the subsequent splintering of our two main political parties and a resurgent support for the socialist politics of Jeremy Corbyn present us, the proletariat, with an unprecedented opportunity. Before I continue, I must nail my colours to the mast. I am an unashamed European and I believe our nation’s decision to leave the EU is flawed. However, rather than looking back and joining the blame game, I choose to look forward and concern myself, not with the ramifications of extricating ourselves from the EU (which I’d rather we didn’t have to do) but with suggestions as to how we fix the divides in British society which the polarising EU referendum laid bare. The referendum spotlighted rifts between the generations as well as between the urban cognoscenti and those that live on the “edgelands” of our major urban centres.
The leave campaign’s slogan was to take our country back and I agree it is time to do so. However, I have no desire to take our country back from the Europe that helps us economically, socially and environmentally but from the Neo-Liberals who continue to bleed us dry... Keep reading on Bev Adams - Faceless Arts