They're throwing the word around like confetti at a wedding.
"The fear is we will be increasingly isolated from our EU partners (sic)"
or a variation on this theme.
Readers, please note: When they say 'we', they don't mean us, they mean them.
The isolation they fear is their own isolation from the Brussels bubble, from the euro-trough. No more soirées, no more canapés, no more junket conferences, no more late-night boozing sessions on the tax-payer tab.
"The fear is we will be increasingly isolated from our EU partners (sic)"
or a variation on this theme.
Readers, please note: When they say 'we', they don't mean us, they mean them.
The isolation they fear is their own isolation from the Brussels bubble, from the euro-trough. No more soirées, no more canapés, no more junket conferences, no more late-night boozing sessions on the tax-payer tab.
Et alors? None of this has anything to do with trade, commerce and culture for the rest of us, who are already excluded from the gravy train. The pro-Brussels camp is driven by narrow self-interest masquarading as grand purpose.
Isolation, John Lennon's definition: