Posted on 06/24/2016 9:19:35 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
During the campaign the very worst impulses were given free rein and voice. Britain is not greater for this decision but smaller, weaker and more vulnerable
In the end those who placed their faith in the “experts” were always going to be disappointed. The pollsters were wrong; the currency traders were wrong; the pundits were confounded. People who did not feel they had been heard have not just spoken. Given a one-off chance to tell the world what they think of how they are governed they have screamed a piercing cry of alienation and desperation.
Given the choice between the status quo and change (changing something, anything) Britain voted for change. It got its wish. This will change everything. As the pound plummets, stock markets dive, the SNP leader, Nicola Sturgeon, says a new referendum for Scottish independence is “highly likely” and Sinn Féin revives the question of Irish unity, we enter a period of volatility without precedent or comparison.
Like the dog that chases the car only to amaze itself by catching it, those who campaigned for Brexit own what comes next. There were sound reasons why some people rejected the European Union. Sadly none of them made it to the mainstream. Instead, leave unleashed a range of demons it could not tame and then refused to face them honestly, preferring to wade to the finish line through a toxic swamp of postcolonial nostalgia, xenophobia and general disaffection.
Britain is no more sovereign today than it was yesterday. We will leave the EU but remain within the neoliberal system....
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Let the HATE flow through you Progs!!
0bama said “Change” is always needed, dipwads.
We voted for the ability to hire and fire the people who make our laws, and to stop paying taxes to an unaccountable tyranny.
I can see why transnational socialists find this a horrifying concept.
Incredible scaremongering and massively-biased polling couldn’t keep the Brit citizens from voting for freedom.
Leftists are saddened and angered by this.
Their tears are delicious.
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A beautiful sight to revel in.
Give is a rest, Gary.
England (and Great Britain) has been a magnificent and powerful nation for a thousand years. They’ve faced down the Vikings, Napoleon, Hitler and the USSR.
They got this.
Hail Britannia.
The comments he has with respect to the EUtrash position were well stated. But then as a black man he devolves into casting the Brexits in the pall of that verrry scarrrry word:”racism’. Ah huh. Forty years of globalist ideology later will require readjustment. Get over your fear mongering author.
Sour grapes. No sane person is suggesting the UK withdraw from global trade, or not enter into defensive alliances. The only relationship it is severing is with Brussels. Of course those who favor Brussels are going to use all tools avaliable tpo persuade the UK to stay. “All tools available” includes lies and revenge.
The Guardian - A greater collection of intellectual wannabes existeth not.
Makes the NYT and Wash Compost appear almost as high as the cretin level.
Hillary and Obama had a VERY bad week. And Obama as president is going to the trash heap of history soon, and Hillary is looking a a fright train coming at her in a dark tunnel. At this point, if she is NOT indicted, I believe that there will be “trouble”.
Trump had a very good week.
If Obama was in favor of motherhood and apple pie (both of which I doubt), I would have to rethink my positions on those subjects.
The Brits didn’t like the idea of “taxation without representation”. Sound familiar?
Not living in the UK I’m not privy to many details, but if the Guardian is throwing a hissy fit, I suspect the British have done a very good thing indeed.
How dare the people get a vote?
Exactly. You think all of the Colonists wanted to break away from Britain? I’m sure back then you heard all of the same things from them about how the Colonies would be ruined if we broke away from Britain.
Marxism wants a whole a globe to rule over.
“The people have voted their worst impulses!”
Heard that when Reagan was elected & then reelected.
When the Republicans were handed majorities in the House & Senate in 1994, liberals wailed “America just had a huge temper tantrum!”
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