[It’s] important to remember that a figure like Nigel Farage, the former leader of the populist UK Independence Party, did not bring about Brexit all by himself; he needed the backing of very established figures from the Conservative Party like Michael Gove.
It was Gove, after all, who, in the face of warnings about Brexit by many experts, announced that “the people of this country have had enough of experts.”
The irony was that Gove himself clearly spoke with the authority of an expert: He has always been seen as one of the Tories’ most prominent “intellectuals.”
It took nothing less than an expert to convince people that claims of expertise are overrated.
Such a leap. An “intellectual” recognizes a movement, and movement people take their cue. Nah.
Blithe Spirit 