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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
Agreed. The number of Americanisms I've seen on this forum by Brexiters who proclaim themselves to be more patriotic due to their decision on 23/6/16 is somewhat contradictory.
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Don't really care about Americanisms, language changes. But you do get a lot of American political terminology entering British politics on both the left and the right hence the abuse of the word 'liberal'. You get conservatives here, not the normal well read ones such as Carswell, but the commentators who use liberal in the American sense of a left-winger. But you also get the left who see liberal as neoliberal which they in turn mean right-wing believers in uncontrolled free markets taking over as much as the state as possible.