Was This Season of Bake Off an Anti-Brexit Metaphor?

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The GBBO bakers who succeeded this season all hailed from a different Britain than the Brexit ideal, a multicultural nation of casual assimilation. kn8 writes

The master Giuseppe at work. Photo: Channel 4 This post spoils the finale of The Great British Bake Off.

Let’s start with an incontrovertible fact: This was a very English season of Bake Off. For the first time since 2011, there were no Scottish, Welsh, or Northern Irish bakers in the tent. Thus, unlike a typical season of Bake Off, its story was not about the constituent parts of the U.K. coming together to make a glorious whole. Instead, this would be a season about England, the former imperial heartland that led the charge for Leave, and its relationship to Europe and the rest of the world.

Jürgen, probably being annoyed by a host. Photo: Channel 4 Which is not to say that the English bakers got short shrift. There was Lizzie, a colorful Liverpudlian whose Scouse gumption made her a fan favorite. Another standout, Freya from Yorkshire, was not just a glimpse of the future — she’s both Gen Z and a vegan — but also the past: In name and hairstyle, she was a spectral reanimation of the Northeast’s thousand-year-old history as the Viking colony of Jórvík.

 

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kn8 There is no brexit ideal to at least 48% of us! We voted to remain in the EU. We love our EU neighbours and eventually we will rejoin! 💯 ❤️ 🇪🇺 There are a lot of racist xenophobic small minds in Britain, but please know there are many of us who are not like that. ❤️

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