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All Out War: The Full Story of How Brexit Sank Britain's Political Class Hardcover – November 3, 2016

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2017The best political book of the year' Andrew MarrA superb work of storytelling and reporting. Sets new benchmark for the writing of contemporary political history' Andrew Sparrow, GuardianThe only book to tell the full story of how and why Britain voted to leave the EU.

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November 3, 2016
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6.26 x 1.77 x 9.45 inches
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0008215154
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ HarperCollins Publishers (November 3, 2016)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0008215154
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0008215156
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.02 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.26 x 1.77 x 9.45 inches

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Superb history

Reviewed in the United States on January 4, 2018

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Tim Shipman's book is an intense journalistic focus on the politics leading up to and about Brexit (from mid 2015 through Sept 2016). The book is long (600 + pages) and it could have been edited effectively without losing its color and analytical depth. Its vivid, even-handed portraits of the players (Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, Jeremy Corbyn, David Cameron and Theresa May, Dominic Cummings) are enlightening, the "Remain" and the "Leave" landscape and strategy are fairly presented, its June 2016 outcome is dramatic (even though known) and its finale is a Shakespearian political scramble within the Tories leading up to the election of Theresa May as party leader. Shipman reserves his well thought out opinions for his thirty (30) page conclusion. The beginning includes an informative timeline and he adds Johnson's "In" Article and Cameron's "Victory" speech.

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Tom Jennings

Make Britian Great Again

Reviewed in the United States on December 22, 2016

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Fascinating look at the actors, the plans and the gaffes that led to Brexit. Shipman interviewed extensively and provides an almost day-by-day in progress review of the run-up to Brexit. The players on display are shown at their brilliant best and their lewd, bumbling worst. A must-read for political junkies, those trying to make sense of internationalism in retreat, and those curious about the parallels between Brexit and Trumpism.

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Chris DeRose, NYT Bestselling Author

One of the best books I've ever read

Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2017

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One of the best books I've ever read, and, as a political work, in the league with Cramer's masterpiece "What it Takes" (the greatest book ever written on politics) and Caro's Lyndon Johnson series.

I've been following British politics since the 1990's and intensely since the 2000's. But I wondered whether 688 pages on the Brexit referendum was more than I needed. On the contrary, Shipman provides all the necessary context of Britain's long and tumultuous relationship with the European Union without lingering or engaging in tedium.

What follows is a gifted storyteller mining an epic drama for all of its narrative worth. Imagine a national referendum over the future of the country with fissures running through party lines and pitting leaders of the two major parties against one another.

Underlying this national battle is the psychodrama among a group of friends who attended Oxford in the 80's: Boris Johnson, who watched as his younger classmate David Cameron ascended to the leadership of the Conservative Party and the premiership ahead of him, who emerges as the front man of the Leave campaign, putting him on the path to being prime minister; Michael Gove, whose modest background affected the dynamic with his classmates Cameron and Johnson, found himself marginalized in the latter's government. Gove, who supplied much of the intellectual heft of the new Conservatives, would do the same for the Leave campaign. The interpersonal politics and personal history was just as interesting as the campaign itself, which cannot be understood without it.

Shakespeare wouldn't have dared to invent this story. Cameron, the young prince, never a Europhile, promises a referendum in order to win a General Election in 2015. The referendum fails, and his political career with it. In the retrospect of his amazing career, Europe was always there, waiting, to give him his greatest victory but also his final and fatal defeat.

How Leave wins, and the head Brexiteers lose the peace, is a story that deserved a book of this magnitude. I enthusiastically recommend it.

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But with a cool head, it could have been prevented

Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2017

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If you want to understand the craziness of Brexit, here is a detailed account of the political dynamics, and the pressures Cameron was subject to. But with a cool head, it could have been prevented

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Fascinating instant - history of the Brexit campaigns and immediate ...

Reviewed in the United States on March 19, 2017

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Fascinating instant - history of the Brexit campaigns and immediate aftermath. Even this yank across the pond could not put it down once I started reading - even knowing how it ends!

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Jan-Henry Hansen

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Reviewed in the United States on July 22, 2017

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Agisthos

A ship without a captain...

Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2017

In this great book Tim Shipman gives the inside story on BREXIT. There was actually two OUT campaigns, the official Vote Leave campaign run by the Tory establishment, and Leave.EU which was run by Arron Banks and spearheaded by Nigel Farage. The tale is interesting and well written. Both campaigns hated each other and believed the other was having a negative effect. But the fact is both campaigns were required to win BREXIT. Vote Leave targeted middle-upper class conservative voters, making it socially acceptable to vote OUT, while Farage and co hit the Labour heartlands and working class areas with a nativist and anti-immigrant pitch.

I had a good laugh at Daniel Hannan and other establishment figures who claim that anti-migrant sentiment was not the single largest motivating factor in BREXIT. Hannan is a liar, and its a perfect example of how our political class has become so petrified of being called racist they must do mental gymnastics on such an obvious issue. Yes, Vote Leave did have polling of upper class Tory voters showing 'make our own laws' to be the top issue, but that's because those respondents were too cultured to tell the pollster what they really think.

But what really fascinated me was the following attack on Michael Gove, one of the leading OUT figures for the Tory party...

"More than any specific ideological vision he has, Gove is an ideologue. You do get the whiff of burning witches. The thing about ideologues, whether they're left or right, none of them need experts because they're the expert; because the ideology has the answer. Ideologues force the world to conform to their theory instead of having their theory conform to the world. That, to my mind, explains Michael Gove."

This passage is utterly instructive of a larger issue of our time. It shows that Cameron's government, at heart, regarded ideology as the enemy. But isn't this for the best, you may ask? Does this not show their sound pragmatism? No. Let me explain.

The new political class, on the left and right, eschew ideology in favor of a technocratic form of governance. The idea is to deliver reform based on empirical evidence and pragmatic solutions to issues as they arise. It sounds good, but the end result is very different. An ideology-less government will, in practice, always devolves into ad hoc, piece-meal social engineering and paternalism.

Right now, Britain is under almost unprecedented assault in the areas of civil liberties. Facebook posts, tweets and all manner of petty thought crimes are now grounds for being imprisoned. Child welfare services have become tyrannical and out of control. Spying, privacy intrusion and video surveillance now rival anything that Orwell's 1984 could have envisioned.

Not only have these things continued since the Cameron government took over from Labour in 2010, they have accelerated. Cameron's technocrats have proven themselves almost indivisible from Blair's New Labour. Without any ideology to guide them, there can be no internal movement to roll any of this back; to do so it to be accused of being ideological. Without ideology to guide them, each crisis is only solved through flexible ad-hoc interventionism, always more paternalism, always more government.

This explains the disaster British society has been heading into these last few decades, right alongside those other European technocratic governments; Germany, Sweden e.t.c

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It's complete rubbish

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 16, 2019

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Seriously, some of you liked this book ?.....well it takes all sorts but for me, it is utter garbage, difficult to read, very boring...I have reached chapter 6, not far I suppose and others will say it will get better but so much jumping about and all about the creation of the Remain argument, not much yet and I have to expect very little of the Leave side of the argument but.....please buy the other one on Brexit, it's that bit easier to read but this one....NO
The one thing both books highlight is the putting together of small, individual groups all clamouring to get Cameron's attention for being the best group to fight for Remain....but then they kept changing their group title...and each wanted an MP with a personality, to front their little group.....kids in the playground with mini gangs...hopeless

Written the day after the decision on the Brexit deal collapses and it sums up the pathetic manner and attitude of those chasing Remain and the uselessness of parliamentary opinion....they have made a monumental mess of the whole thing....it will be surprising if it can be sorted out by the 29th March

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James R. D. Jefferies

In a word "awful" in two words "totally awful"

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 27, 2019

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This book is just awful and has not stood the test of time at all. The sources are rarely cited properly and those that are aren't worth much credibility (mostly secondary and right wing). The whole thing could easily have been made up as so often it's "a senior MP said this" without a name being given or any context supplied - it's actually laughable. There is also very little balanced argument on any subject. for example Alan Johnson (a remainer and anti-Corbyn) is almost the sole source for any view on labour. May is portrayed as a smooth level headed negotiator (seriously!? I mean even before the brexit failure nobody surely thought this after her abysmal spell as home sec!?). The whole thing negates the real tragedy of division in the country that lead to Brexit and very firmly stays wedded in the Westminster Tory 'bubble' when a wider context is needed (could we have insight into why Euroscepticism spread? Could we have some EU sources? Perhaps a wider context why the rise of UKIP has occured?). The endless comparison to "game of thrones" is laughable and makes you weep that so many politicians see this all as a game for power and are a very much out of touch (and I use the following word whilst trying not to burst out into laughter) 'elite'. But the main issue for me is 99% of quotes are not cited or referenced at all. Amateurish. The author actually praises Mays cuts of the police force as home secretary that have led to a surge in crime yet dubs Jeremy Corbyn a threat to national security without giving us a reason why beyond "he talks to terrorists". Cameron, who lead an abismal remain campaign and instigated the whole Brexit mess just to unite his own party ends the book as a hero! (I still can't understand how the author has come to that conclusion!?) I think the pinnacle of how laughable this book is came when the final conclusion was that brexit had united the Tory party and made it stronger (what planet is Tim Shipman living on!?). I was hoping for a level headed balanced insight into Brexit but was sorely disappointed. This book has not stood the test of time and the passing of further years will only reveal further it's weaknesses and poor lack of conclusion. It would be funny if it wasn't so painful. Apparently the night Gove decided to stand against Boris for the position as party leader is the most pinnacle moment in British politics since Winston Churchill decided to fight on in 1940. Sorry, Mr Shipman, you need to do some more reading before making laughable claims like that. Avoid.

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Joebuyer

A fine read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 6, 2018

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I'll never look at political people in the same way again. The book seems to illustrate very well that a fine education does not always mean the result is someone with a degree of common sense and an understanding of how people feel and react when faced with an unanswerable question, when the people asking have not only not thought it through, but have no answer anyway. I have bought the next book in the hope of understanding more about the issue, if that is possible.

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Fonaweb

Brilliant

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 22, 2017

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You won't be able to put this down nor will you ever look at politics the same way again. A cumulative catalogue of apparently insignificant failures by Cameron combined with the Leave campaign's sheer will to win made it happen. High drama.

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Bluecashmere.

"Utterly gripping" it is not.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 4, 2019

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The greater part of Tim Shipman's account concerns the run-up and outcome of the referendum. Unfortunately, it is not until the final section of the book, which deals with the battle for the leadership of the Conservative party that the writer picks up the pace and engages any depth of interest. Early on the author speaks of the "charismatic UKIP leader, Nigel Farage". A darker foreshadowing it would be hard to conceive. Farage has all the charisma of stale blancmange. What follows lagely concerns a dull recital of the manoevrings of both sides of the argument.

Cummings, Korski, Baker, Oliver. Oxley, Stephenson et al, were key players in the jostling for position, but they are scarcely household names, and the references to Boris Johnson, Michael Gove and Jeremy Corbyn do little to clarify matters, nor to involve the reader, though some humour is associated with all three of them.

I think the accusations that Shipman is less than balanced in his treatment is unfair. Corbyn's own team regarded him as at best lacklustre and at worst totally indecisive and a mouthpiece for Milne, without whom he would have been totally lost. At the same time Shipman does not hold back in dealing with Gove's treachery, nor the in-fighting within the Conservative party following Cameron's resignation. It is this infighting involving Johnson, Gove, Leadsom and May that generates a few sparks.

It is not easy to be fair to a book that we now witness with the advantage of hindsight, and which even at the time, has an outcome that is known to all. The book seems to me to be painstakingly presemted, but has the misfortune to be written when there are few people of statesmanlike quality, or indeed of any real exceptional quality on either front bench. It is an honest attempt to give an accurate historical record of an imporatant periosd in British history.

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