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When ‘Backing Britain’ ran out of steam...
YOU’RE SURE to have had that feeling. That moment of realisation when you think: Haven’t we been here before...?
It came over me recently when I read about the government’s plan to build a £200m ship to plough international waters, spreading the news that we might no longer rule the waves but Britain is still great Britain; well, fairly great, and not yet reaching for the distress flares
The announcement about the promotional ship, coming on the crest of a bubbling of patriotic post-Brexit fervour, was some distraction from undercurrents of concern some felt about how we’ll stay buoyant now that we’ve cast off from the EU. That on top of the worrying fact that we’re up to our gunwales with bills
