Posted on 06/25/2016 10:17:05 AM PDT by OddLane
One of the main takeaways from the EU Referendum is the chasm which exists between the British electorate and the people who purport to represent them in Westminster. To get an idea of what this looks like, you need only glance at the list of MPs who opposed Brexit, which includes nearly every single Labour member of the House of Commons, and compare it to the electoral map of UK on the day after the vote.
Even if the hatred of ordinary, working class voters expressed by the BBC is muted in the monologues of Labour politicians, the antipathy for their values and concerns is unmistakable. George Orwell exposed the hypocrisy and venality of these sham socialists brilliantly in The Road To Wigan Pier-a location that voted to leave, BTW. And like the objects of Orwell’s criticism who learned absolutely nothing, Owen Jones, Laurie Penny, Polly Toynbee and the rest of the detestable lot now castigating their social inferiors refuse to even entertain the notion that they’re egregiously, catastrophically wrong...
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How dare the unwashed masses vote against the desires and profits of the elected elites?
Mrs. RQSR, and I were talking about the liberal belief in their superiority this morning at breakfast. Yeah we are a political pair.
We were discussing individuals in the family whom are liberal as ‘H’. The attitude they have is of extreme superiority, an attitude that makes one want to pinch their faces off.
The liberal has been getting away with their haughty, snot nosed attitude for so long they actually believe their own BS today, but that’s because we not of the liberal persuasion have allowed them their way for too long.
It’s coming to a head, or as some have said during this past decade of awakening “their chickens are coming home to roost.”
You could hear the contempt dripping from the mouths of BBC anchors the night of the vote as the results rolled in.
Here’s the way I look at it.
According to what I’ve read, older people voted to leave. Now, older people do remember what Britain was like before the EU disaster. A free Britain, able to forge trade deals, border control and so on. They wanted those days back.
The stay people are primarily young millenials who grew up in the EU and have no frame of reference other than that. They are/were in their comfort zone, their safe place with the EU. They are deathly afraid of change and blame the older people for leaving.
That said, those same millenials couldn’t be convinced to get off their as*es and go vote. Why should they. The “polls” said stay was up (by some polls) 8 points. It was a given, so they stayed home. Now that they’ve lost, they want a do-over.
I say, sit down and shut up millenials, adults are now in charge.
Just like the American electorate and Washington, D.C.
Brexit is the Brit version of "When in the course of human events . . ."
I read this on Peter Hitchens blog.
“This vote has shown that both Tory and Labour Parties are dead, do not represent their voters, and no longer reflect the real division in this country. Both should have been wound up years ago. Neither ought to survive this. This has been a vote against the existing political system and elite, and against the two political parties which have arrogantly misgoverned the country for decades.”
I think the same applies to the R and D parties of this country, we don’t fully realize it yet, but we have made progress towards it.
Great post(s)
GRRRRRREAT Britain
The Witch in Scotland wants to stay(in EU) and leave(UK) now
Successive governments have bent over backwards to give the lunatics in the SNP almost everything they've wanted, now these idiots want to jump inside of a burning car-which is heading off a cliff-out of Scottish stubbornness.
Did these geniuses pay any attention to how the EU dealt with Alexis Tsipras and Syriza?
My Ungrateful Colonial Children:
You’ll regret your imprudence and arrogance.
As a nation, you’ll be nothing.
George III
I hope Hilda leading by 14 points in a recent poll, the same will repeat here.
I saw that poll too. The anger in America is the same or even more intense as the UK. God willing and the Creek don’t rise; we will see a landslide victory in Nov.
I see they have a very bad case of sour grapes there in the UK with a petition circulating to redo the vote. I hope that is soundly and roundly ignored. It’s a natural reaction when things don’t go your way but a vote is a vote and now it’s done. Time to move forward with the decision.
Looks like at least 5 more countries are going to have the same vote and likely leave the EU within a year. Good. The EU was a bad idea. It centralized power over the entire European theater. Each country is unique and with their own language. Europe is not like the USA with all its states. They don’t share a common history except for at certain times like the Roman Empire takeover and even then; some countries resisted and won like Germany (Germania at the time).
The EU was a very good idea if they had limited it strictly for movement of goods and commerce between members. But it went far beyond that. Any one from any country can go to any other country, live there and collect the same welfare benefits as citizens. And the bureaucrats in Brussels went hog wild on regulations imposed on all.
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