Newspeak: George Orwell Predicted Brexit in his Book 1984

Newspeak: George Orwell Predicted Brexit in his Book 1984...

Unless you have been living on Pluto for the past couple of years, you are probably sick to death of hearing about Brexit, irrespective of your political views on the matter. Despite the mass media endlessly covering many aspects of Brexit, the history of the word “Brexit” itself has had less coverage. This is the story of the word Brexit and how it pertains to George Orwell’s masterpiece, 1984. As it turns out, Brexit is directly from the pages of Orwell’s most famous book, as Brexit is literally newspeak!

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