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New York Times didn’t show much Christmas spirit when it likened the sudden stringent new Christmas-season corona restrictions put in place by U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson to Brexit. The paper has always been hostile to both Brexit (the 2016 popular vote that called for the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union) and conservative party leader Boris Johnson.
Reporters Benjamin Mueller and Isabella Kwai sounded like vengeful lefties in Tuesday’s story piling on to Britain’s Christmas-time woes: “As Borders Are Sealed Over Virus Fears, a Taste of Looming Brexit.” The combo of Boris-Brexit-loathing with repellent gloating over the country’s coronavirus woes made for a truly toxic take.
For UK, an early taste of Brexit as borders are sealed
By Benjamin Mueller and Isabella Kwai New York Times,Updated December 21, 2020, 9:31 p.m.
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A nearly deserted St. Martinâs Lane in central London on Monday.ANDREW TESTA/NYT
LONDON â Christmas plans were canceled. Many flights off the island were stopped. And lawmakers called for cultivating new plots of land to shore up the nationâs food supply, conjuring images of plates full of root vegetables.
Britain, christened not long ago by a pro-Brexit lawmaker as âTreasure Islandâ for the riches it offers, earned another moniker Monday as a new variant of the coronavirus ripped through the country and set off blockades at its borders: Plague Island.
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