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[AmandineB]

Bonjour, voici mon oral d'anglais LV1, je voudrais savoir si je n'ai pas fait de fautes. Merci d'avance!

Today I’m going to deal with the notion of spaces and exchanges and to this notion, I am going to give a political view. First, the terms spaces and exchanges refers to geographical and symbolic areas occupied by societies as well as the interaction between the individuals in their society. I am therefore going to talk about a recent topic which is the Brexit. It is a referendum launched on June 23rd 2016 by the former Prime Minister David Cameron that allows all citizens of voting age decide if they want Britain to remain or leave the European Union.

We can wonder why Brexit has led to so many fractures.

First and foremost we’ll talk about the geographical divide, then the social divide and in my last part the generational gap.

To begin with, the Prime minister John Cameron had promise to hold the referendum to placate the Eurosceptics in his party. Nevertheless, as we can see on the referendum results map, turnout was 72,2% with the leave side winning against the Remain camp by quite a narrow margin (only 4 points) : actually, until the next day, nobody was really sure who had won. Looking at the map, we can note stark contrasts between the Remain bastions of large cities (London, Manchester, Liverpool, Cardiff) and the richer South Eastern areas which voted overwhelmingly in support of remaining in the EU as opposed the the rural areas of most England which were Eurosceptic and stood against Remain position. Another striking contrasts is the fact that both Scotland and Nothern Ireland stood strongly in favour of Remain.Besides, this divergence of opinion creates several issues between citizens and that’s what I’m going to talk about in the next part.

 

  Indeed, in the Globalism cartoon, Joe Heller has depicted globalism. The fact that the whole world has become a vastly internconnected space with business operating on an international scale and increased population mobility as a big fish with a worried expression on its face. Normally, big fish are at the top of the food chain, but here the big fish of globalism is being attacked by a fish-shaped larger school of voracious fish. Leading the attack are three smaller fishes in the front : one is called «hate», the other «racism», and the third simply bears the colours of the Union Jack. Globalisation and its cousin globalism have created serious imbalances in national economies and nation states. On occasion, theses protests, particularly in Europe and the USA, are tinted with racism and xenophobia. This is clearly a commentary on Brexit, which Joe Heller sees as the triumph of nationalism and xenophobia over the efforts of states and people to work together. Moreover, the chart published by the British Home Office reveals that in the month just after Brexit, the number of hate crimes rose sharply and at one point actually doubled. This does seem to confirm Joe Heller’s view of Brexit as the triumph of a nationalistic and xenophobic dynamic in society. For instance, the victims of racism are very often recent immigrants who have not acquired a place in society. Differences like skin colour, religion, cultural practices often make people the targets of racist behaviour. Thus, these are the two main reasons that explain the vote : fears about the number of European migrants coming to Britain, as well as fears over globalisation and the loss of sovereignty, the feeling that Britain was being controlled by the European Council and could no longer decide for itself. However, a part of the population couldn’t speak their mind so they were appalled of the result since they will have to put up with the consequences of this decision even if they didn’t choose it.

 

  This leads me to my last part where we’re going to study the generational gap. This is explained by an article from the british daily newspaper The Independant. The article deals with a post-Brexit protest rally led by young people outside the British Parliement. The young demonstrators are protesting the fact that they had no say in the decision as most being under 18 yo were not allowed to vote and they are the ones who will have to live with and bear the consequences the most. At 16, Britain considers that people are old and mature enough to get married but also join the army. Hence, they should be considered sufficiently mature to vote on something that will concern them directly. Yet, the demand was turned down by parliament due to its cost, estimated to be 6 million pounds even though those teenagers wished to vote «Remain» because the first and main reason is they feel European and secondly they are concerned that this decision will impact their future. Other young voters aged from 18 to 25 yo overwhelmingly chose to remain in the EU as opposed to the group of older voters who strongly supported Brexit.

  In a nutshell, Brexit has been the source of troubles and discontent all over the country. The brexit vote revealed deep divides within British society : political, geographical, social and generational. As a result to the vote, the very next day, David Cameron, the pro-EU conservative prime minister resigned from office to be replaced a fortnight later by Theresa May. Between 2017 and 2019, the UK will have 2 years to renegotiate treaties. After these two years have passed, in 2019, the EU Parliement will consent to this agreement. At this point, the UK will have become independent from Europe. Today, the withdrawal of Britain is still debated.

[Jean B]

Bonjour,

Today I’m going to deal with the notion of spaces and exchanges and to this notion, I am going to give a political point of view to it. First, the terms spaces and exchanges refers  < Le groupe sujet est un pluriel to geographical and symbolic areas occupied by societies as well as the interaction between the individuals in their society. I am therefore going to talk about a recent topic which is the Brexit. It is a referendum launched on June 23rd 2016 by the former Prime Minister David Cameron that allows all citizens of voting age to decide whether/if they want Britain to remain or leave the European Union.

We can wonder why Brexit has led to so many fractures.

First and foremost we’ll talk about the geographical divide, then the social divide and in my last part the generational gap.

To begin with, the Prime minister John Cameron had promised to hold the referendum to placate the Eurosceptics in his party. Nevertheless, as we can see on the referendum results map, turnout was 72,2% with the leave side winning against the Remain camp by quite a narrow margin (only 4 points) : actually, until the next day, nobody was really sure who had won. Looking at the map, we can note stark contrasts between the Remain bastions of large cities (London, Manchester, Liverpool, Cardiff) and the richer South Eastern areas which voted overwhelmingly in support of remaining in the EU as opposed to the the rural areas of most England which were Eurosceptic and stood against Remain position. Another striking contrasts < another ne serait-il pas un singulier ?  is the fact that both Scotland and Nothern Ireland stood strongly in favour of Remain. Besides, this divergence of opinion creates several issues between citizens and that’s what I’m going to talk about in the next part.

 

  Indeed, in the Globalism cartoon, Joe Heller has depicted globalism. The fact that the whole world has become a vastly interconnected space with business operating on an international scale and increased population mobility as a big fish with a worried expression on its face. Normally, big fish are at the top of the food chain, but here the big fish of globalism is being attacked by a fish-shaped larger school of voracious fish. Leading the attack are three smaller fishes in the front : one is called «hate», the other «racism», and the third simply bears the colours of the Union Jack. Globalisation and its cousin globalism have created serious imbalances in national economies and nation states. On occasion, theses protests, particularly in Europe and the USA, are tinted with racism and xenophobia. This is clearly a commentary on Brexit, which Joe Heller sees as the triumph of nationalism and xenophobia over the efforts of states and people to work together. Moreover, the chart published by the British Home Office reveals that in the month just after Brexit, the number of hate crimes rose sharply and at one point actually doubled. This does seem to confirm Joe Heller’s view of Brexit as the triumph of a nationalistic and xenophobic dynamic in society. For instance, the victims of racism are very often recent immigrants who have not acquired a place in society. Differences like skin colour, religion, cultural practices often make people the targets of racist behaviour. Thus, these are the two main reasons that explain the vote: fears about the number of European migrants coming to Britain, as well as fears over globalisation and the loss of sovereignty, the feeling that Britain was being controlled by the European Council and could no longer decide for itself. However, a part of the population couldn’t speak their minds so they were appalled of the result since they will have to put up with the consequences of this decision even if they didn’t choose it.

 

  This leads me to my last part where we’re going to study the generational gap. This is explained by an article from the British daily newspaper The Independent. The article deals with a post-Brexit protest rally led by young people outside the British Parliament. The young demonstrators are protesting the fact that they had no say in the decision as most being under 18 yo were not allowed to vote and they are the ones who will have to live with and bear the consequences the most. At 16, Britain considers that people are old and mature enough to get married but also join the army. Hence, they should be considered sufficiently mature to vote on something that will concern them directly. Yet, the demand was turned down by Parliament due to its cost, estimated to be 6 million pounds even though those teenagers wished to vote «Remain» because the first and main reason is they feel European and secondly they are concerned that this decision will impact their future. Other young voters aged from 18 to 25 yo overwhelmingly chose to remain in the EU as opposed to the group of older voters who strongly supported Brexit.

  In a nutshell, Brexit has been the source of troubles and discontent all over the country. The brexit vote revealed deep divides within British society : political, geographical, social and generational. As a result to the vote, the very next day, David Cameron, the pro-EU conservative prime minister resigned from office to be replaced a fortnight later by Theresa May. Between 2017 and 2019, the UK will have 2 years to renegotiate treaties. After these two years have passed, in 2019, the EU Parliament will consent to this agreement. At this point, the UK will have become independent from Europe. Today, the withdrawal of Britain is still being debated.

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