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I think there are three preconditions that helped brexit happen:

- it's much easier to influence politics in English than in Norwegian (or Dutch or Greek, etc.). The language can act as a protective barrier making it obvious which message is from the 'out' group and which is from the 'in' group.

- there was a lot of money invested by foreign actors in into influencing brexit because the UK is a large economy. The RoI is there.

- UK joining the EU came in tandem with the end of the Imperial times. The significance of the UK and it's economy is now proportional to their population. On the way down people are always ready to hear about scapegoats.

Norway has none of these things. Culturally well protected, not big enough to be a priority in influences and they went from poverty to wealthy in the same time.

On the other hand. Imperial times are making a comeback.