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Kerry: Brexit may never take place
Hot Air ^ | June 29, 2016 | Ed Morrissey

Posted on 06/29/2016 10:15:16 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Wishful thinking, or a legitimate perspective on demonstrations of buyer’s remorse in the UK? It’s no secret, after all, that the Obama administration opposed the “Brexit” referendum that passed last week, which makes John Kerry’s skepticism about its actual implementation a bit self-serving. That doesn’t necessarily make him incorrect, however:

The US secretary of state has raised doubts about whether Brexit will ever happen, suggesting most leave campaigners do not truly believe in Britain’s divorce from the EU and do not know how to achieve it.

Claiming there were a number of ways in which Thursday’s vote could be “walked back”, John Kerry, who visited Downing Street on Monday, said David Cameron was loth to invoke article 50, the EU exit procedure.

He said the British prime minister felt powerless to “start negotiating a thing that he doesn’t believe in” and “has no idea how he would do it”.

Apparently referring to Boris Johnson, one of the frontrunners to replace Cameron, Kerry added: “And by the way, nor do most of the people who voted to do it.”(continued)

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: 2016election; article50; borisjohnson; brexit; brixit; cameron; davidcameron; election2016; europeanunion; france; germany; johnkerry; kerry; lurch; massachusetts; nato; newyork; obama; pruneface; trump; unitedkingdom; waronterror
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What do the peasants know, anyway?
1 posted on 06/29/2016 10:15:17 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Old Horseface speaks. He’s still dreaming of a “borderless” world for the snowflakes he lectured to prior to them graduating from “college” and going home to live in mom and pop’s basement.


2 posted on 06/29/2016 10:18:27 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Rise up America! This country can't take eight more years of Marxism and Socialism.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

the War Hero excretes more BS, embarasses USA yet again...
(and further alienates another ally)


3 posted on 06/29/2016 10:20:10 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born. They're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The globalists see their plans for world domination finally coming to fruition. They will pull out all the stops to try and save the Euro mega-component.


4 posted on 06/29/2016 10:21:46 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Another global test. Johnny, go play with your Iranian buddies.


5 posted on 06/29/2016 10:30:36 PM PDT by BigEdLB (Take it Easy, Chuck. I'm Not Taking it Back -- Donald Trump)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Kerry is the opposite end from the horse’s face


6 posted on 06/29/2016 10:31:46 PM PDT by BigEdLB (Take it Easy, Chuck. I'm Not Taking it Back -- Donald Trump)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Peter Hitchens noted in his column last Sunday “Mail on Sunday” that the “Remain” side controls most of the Parliament’s members, the media like the BBC and the judiciary.

He is urging a new realignment of politics, new political parties to reflect the “Leave” and “Remain” division and above all a quick General Election to sort things out.

Nigel Farage has urged a quick invocation of Article 50 of the EU Charter to get the exit process going but Cameron won’t do it right away, saying he was to wait for the next PM to take office to do that.

There’s a smell in the air that this vote may have been in vain.

The “Remain” forces of the Corporatist elites are staging a coup to overthrow Jeremy Corbyn as Labour Party leader and install a full-throated “Remainer” as leader.


7 posted on 06/29/2016 10:34:21 PM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS, REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I sense a pattern here— globalists don’t like that Trump won the votes in the primary.. so at the convention they will try to block the people.. Globalists do not like the Brexit vote so they will block the people...


8 posted on 06/29/2016 10:35:51 PM PDT by freespirit2012
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Like I said before:
All this talk of nullifying the results of Brexit is just froth to make it more palatable to the GLOBALISTS. They know they got swatted after pulling out all the stops, and would get totally hammered if they try another vote. It’s over, it’s over now, for the great euro-farce and they know it.


9 posted on 06/29/2016 10:44:10 PM PDT by 867V309 (It's over. It's over now.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If he ever decided to divorce and marry up again, the only woman rich enough for that is Oprah.


10 posted on 06/29/2016 10:52:07 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The US secretary of state...

The US secretary of state is all #&#*%& up.

11 posted on 06/29/2016 11:04:00 PM PDT by Mr Apple ( HILLARY CLINTON >>> COOKIES, CANDIES, CAKE, DESSERTS & CASHEWS....the WALRUS LOOK)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

John F. Horseface Kerry’s pronouncements are always WORTHLESS.


12 posted on 06/29/2016 11:06:19 PM PDT by onyx (DONATE MONTHLY because YOU POST HERE! VOTE TRUMP, at least once!)
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To: Nextrush

If there were just one single card in this deck....I might believe this ‘BREXIT-may-never-happen’ idea.

The problem is...the Austrian Constitutional Court is about to lay down a judgement in the next week that the May Presidential election results are invalid. This will trigger another run by the Green Party (the winner by less than 1-percent in the May election) and the right-wing party. You can take a guess how the next two months in Austria will go and how the anti-EU talk will be part of the make-up election. I think the Greens will lose on this second election.

So, you come to Oct in Germany, with a state election in Mecklenburg, Germany. Polling shows the anti-immigration/anti-EU party (the AfD) will probably take 25-percent (maybe even 28-percent) of the state’s votes. It’ll shift things around, and make Germans wonder about the three state elections in spring of 2017.

In France? There’s a presidential election coming up in the spring of 2017. Toss in the UK, Austria and Mecklenburg results and major talk of a Dutch referendum on the EU, and you might get a right-wing winner of France.

The German federal election? Scheduled for Oct/Nov of 2017. Merkel isn’t running, and the center-right/center-left parties are in weak marginal shape (they won’t cross the 50-percent point with their combined vote....something that hasn’t happened since 1949).

There are plenty of elections slated for 2017 and 2018....to reshape politics in Europe. So, in the early spring of 2019....guess what, the EU parliament election occurs. What if 50-to-60 percent of the vote goes right-wing? Shocker?

I don’t think BREXIT has to occur....it’s simply the threat, and the domino effect over the next two years that matters. As much as the intellectual folks think they created the perfect machine for their institution....I think it’ll be taken over and they may regret things in the end.


13 posted on 06/29/2016 11:07:05 PM PDT by pepsionice
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yeah well 10 other countries may vite to leave within a year. Other than Turkey who wants to be part of a Euro Super State overrun by Muslims ?


15 posted on 06/29/2016 11:27:14 PM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult

well he could always try for Alice Walton, although her marriages don’t last long

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_female_billionaires


16 posted on 06/29/2016 11:37:58 PM PDT by Enchante (No lipstick on the PIAPS!! #NeverShrillary)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Not fonda KERRY LEST WE EVER FORGET


17 posted on 06/29/2016 11:56:58 PM PDT by easternsky
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The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.
- Ronaldous Magnus


18 posted on 06/30/2016 12:04:30 AM PDT by VRWC For Truth (FUBO & FUHRC too ...)
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To: pepsionice
I don’t think BREXIT has to occur....it’s simply the threat, and the domino effect over the next two years that matters.

Good grief, it's over, it's over now. What's so hard to get?

Merkel Says No Way Back From Brexit as Cameron Regrets Loss


19 posted on 06/30/2016 12:19:34 AM PDT by 867V309 (It's over. It's over now.)
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To: 867V309

Article 50 of the stupid EU rules....doesn’t put any time-line on this episode. You almost have to laugh over the hyped-up behavior of the intellectual EU crowd. Look at the Brit public behavior, six days later....no one is talking of the exit occurring in the remaining six months of 2016. Some of the professors who study the EU even comment that the negotiation to the exit could take two years or more.

What I’m suggesting is that the longer this exit takes...the more complicated that other EXITs start to occur. It wouldn’t surprise if three or four other countries start referendum talks by spring of 2017. It all affects regional elections, and the BREXIT cloud hanging there will have a long-term affect.


20 posted on 06/30/2016 12:36:22 AM PDT by pepsionice
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