Notes on “Brexit the Movie” and “The Myth of Scandinavian Socialism”
Notes from “Brexit the Movie”
‘Brexit, the Movie’ is a documentary that champions the withdrawal of the UK from the EU as a realization of Brexit.
The movie presents two opposing voters, some supporting Brexit with some against it, as shown in Oliver’s intervention of the “Cummings’s alienated voters” in trying to argue her case to the deaf political elites.
The uncontrolled and deregulated trade is one of the reasons considered by the film to make the actualization of Brexit inevitable.
The EU is presented through the movie as the source of the undemocratic regulation prompting the UK to exit the EU market as the UK seeks to establish a trade link with other countries on its own without the regulations of the EU.
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The film presents the case of the UK in terms of “economic transferals of power” to illustrate the losses that Britain incurred when operating as part of the EU.
The is also a mention of the British sovereignty, which was threatened by the European Union Act of 2011, which was presented a source through which the EU encroached a lot to the British matters to their displeasure.
The sovereignty is presented through the movie as the ‘leave campaign motto,” as shown by the side supporting Brexit within the documentary movie.
The movie uses the term “regulated people with regulated lives” as a means of referring to the operation of the UK as part of the EU.
The context of the EU is also presented as the “invisible barbed wire surrounding us” concerning the EU legislations despite the legislation’s existence for some time in the operation of the EU.
The case of the sovereignty of Britain presented in the movie paints it as something that can’t be achieved partly, i.e., Britain either has it or doesn’t have it to inspire the realization of the advantages of a regulated market.
Despite the presence of the two opposing sides to the issue of Brexit, Cummings wins the referendum as thus presented as the hero of the movie portraying the relevance of Brexit.
The movie also ends while elaborating on the dangerous political passions presented by the issue of Brexit portraying the picture of Brexit issue before the referendum.
Notes on “The Myth of Scandinavian Socialism.”
The wealth of countries is gauged by freedom as compared to the socialist policies’ implementation and growth.
The socialist states though are presented as some of the countries in the world with enormous economic freedom.
The proposition that Scandinavian as the ones with the highest living standards is unwarranted.
High economic freedom relates to GDP growth through the comparison of the top and bottom quartile nations in terms of economic freedom.
Life expectancy within the top quartile countries is higher as compared to the lower quartile countries in terms of economic freedom.
The case of the free market in Sweden during the 1950s supports the relevance of free markets to the GDP growth as it emerged as one of the wealthiest countries at the time.
An increase in government workers lowered the GDP growth in Sweden as measured from 1950 to 2004.
The socialist nations also present freedom in some trade areas with lower rates of corporate tax.
Socialist-democratic countries rank close to the US in terms of “Economic freedom of the Word index.”
Scandinavian countries spending on the military is low.
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