Escape has become a shared desire for many trapped in the neoliberal nightmare. Britain as its character has morphed into that of David Cameron’s has become an island from which practically everyone wants to exit.”

That’s the thrust of Carl Cederstrom and Peter Fleming’s short essay, “Escape from Cameron Island: Trapped in a Neo-Liberal Nightmare,” published in the July issue of Strike Magazine!

They riff on the news that in 2012 nearly 25,000 “illegal immigrants” gave themselves up to the UK Border Agency for deportation, a 7000% increase from 2005, when 330 gave themselves up in the same way. This they argue is not just the island’s most desperate people manifesting a sense of unease and a desire for escape and emancipation, but rather something that all British people living in conditions of “neoliberal nihilism” fantasize about.