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All Out War: The Full Story of How Brexit Sank Britain's Political Class
Tim Shipman
4.29 AVERAGE
54 reviews for:
All Out War: The Full Story of How Brexit Sank Britain's Political Class
Tim Shipman
4.29 AVERAGE
Insight and analysis of the shock shift of our time
Excellent assessment, shrewd analysis and well judged prose, this is journalism at its best. Capturing the overconfident Remainers bemused by real people and the bickering Brexiters, this shows how close and complex the unexpected result was.
Excellent assessment, shrewd analysis and well judged prose, this is journalism at its best. Capturing the overconfident Remainers bemused by real people and the bickering Brexiters, this shows how close and complex the unexpected result was.
In the future, when history students are studying what the hell happened in Britain during the infamous Brexit Referendum, I have no doubt Tim Shipman’s Brexit books will be on the to-read syllabus. This is the most highly detailed and well-sourced recount of what the hell happened during the referendum.
As a Brit, I find this book infuriating. Not because it's wrong or bad because it's neither of those things but because the players representing Remain put their own interests ahead of the nations. You can't deny that if Cameron put country ahead of the party, the Leave campaign would have been less effective. If Corbyn campaigned more instead of doing the bare minimum, it would have swung more Labour Leavers to vote remain. It was a mess and still is. What the decisions that were taken during this time will lead us to I don't know.
If you're interested in British politics and how it works or just want more info on Brexit than I recommend this book to you and its follow-up.
As a Brit, I find this book infuriating. Not because it's wrong or bad because it's neither of those things but because the players representing Remain put their own interests ahead of the nations. You can't deny that if Cameron put country ahead of the party, the Leave campaign would have been less effective. If Corbyn campaigned more instead of doing the bare minimum, it would have swung more Labour Leavers to vote remain. It was a mess and still is. What the decisions that were taken during this time will lead us to I don't know.
If you're interested in British politics and how it works or just want more info on Brexit than I recommend this book to you and its follow-up.
slow-paced
Unbelievable, how Tim Shipman could transform a 32-hours long book on politics into a fascinating story
Halloween has passed without us leaving the EU (thank goodness) and appropriately enough I finished Tim Shipman’s ‘All Out War’ today.
It’s a compelling and meticulous account of the Brexit Referendum that’s extremely readable despite the complexity of the events being relayed. It’s a fascinating book and achieved for me the author’s intended aim of giving readers on either side of the debate a better understanding and appreciation of the motives of the other side.
Perhaps unsurprisingly (given that the author is political editor of The Sunday Times) it does a much better job of explaining the Tory side of the story than it does the Labour one. The Conservative players are fully formed characters with motivations and personalities, whilst Labour is more or less portrayed as a big dysfunctional blob. Not sure if this is bias on the part of the author or just a result of Labour players being less willing to talk to him, but it cost the book a star for me.
Nevertheless, it’s a book I throughly recommend and I’ll be diving into the sequel very soon.
It’s a compelling and meticulous account of the Brexit Referendum that’s extremely readable despite the complexity of the events being relayed. It’s a fascinating book and achieved for me the author’s intended aim of giving readers on either side of the debate a better understanding and appreciation of the motives of the other side.
Perhaps unsurprisingly (given that the author is political editor of The Sunday Times) it does a much better job of explaining the Tory side of the story than it does the Labour one. The Conservative players are fully formed characters with motivations and personalities, whilst Labour is more or less portrayed as a big dysfunctional blob. Not sure if this is bias on the part of the author or just a result of Labour players being less willing to talk to him, but it cost the book a star for me.
Nevertheless, it’s a book I throughly recommend and I’ll be diving into the sequel very soon.
informative
fast-paced
Just gonna preface this - this is my view and opinions. I will not get into a political debate with anyone.
I don’t know how to sum up my feelings about this.
My rating is a 3 star.
I spent the entirety of the book not really understanding who everyone was and the roles they played (other than the top people in each camp) but that I link that more to my ignorance on how the government is structured as a whole (I have a very, very basic understanding) than to Shipman’s writing.
In terms of being informed about Brexit, it hasn’t changed my opinion. It has softened my anger towards the Leave campaign to some extent, in others I am just as angry, just as frustrated and just as disgusted as I was when this was all happening.
I still think the Remain campaign did a terrible job at campaigning. They should have done better.
They all lied. They all failed the British people.
In my opinion. Don’t come for me.
Ultimately this book did what it outlined in the introduction. It educated me on how the campaigns really went, how we really came to have the result we did and I have more of an understanding of both sides of the arguments and slightly less hostility to the people I oppose.
But I stand by my thoughts and opinions. I stand by my vote.
I’m interested to read his next book about Brexit… I think I’ll wait until all this bullshit is over first though.
I don’t know how to sum up my feelings about this.
My rating is a 3 star.
I spent the entirety of the book not really understanding who everyone was and the roles they played (other than the top people in each camp) but that I link that more to my ignorance on how the government is structured as a whole (I have a very, very basic understanding) than to Shipman’s writing.
In terms of being informed about Brexit, it hasn’t changed my opinion. It has softened my anger towards the Leave campaign to some extent, in others I am just as angry, just as frustrated and just as disgusted as I was when this was all happening.
I still think the Remain campaign did a terrible job at campaigning. They should have done better.
They all lied. They all failed the British people.
In my opinion. Don’t come for me.
Ultimately this book did what it outlined in the introduction. It educated me on how the campaigns really went, how we really came to have the result we did and I have more of an understanding of both sides of the arguments and slightly less hostility to the people I oppose.
But I stand by my thoughts and opinions. I stand by my vote.
I’m interested to read his next book about Brexit… I think I’ll wait until all this bullshit is over first though.
Excellent. I think I should stop reading a daily paper and read a massive book like this every few months instead.
All Out War is an utterly gripping, supremely well-researched account of the tumultuous Brexit campaign and it's immediate fallout in British Politics. It is the essence of 2016.